Save Ditamap As FM 11 book with components causing xrefs to disappear

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January 26, 2013
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When we used the Framemaker option Save
>Ditamap As > FM 10 book with components, all of our cross references were maintained.

Now for some odd reason with Framemaker 11, all the cross references are
disappearing when you save as FM 11 book with components.

We are using our own defined cross reference formats, such as heading and Page #.

This is repeatable across several machines in our office, and we have the
lastest version of Framemaker installed.

Has anyone seen this, or does anyone have any ideas? I rechecked this on a machine that has Frame 10 and it works fine there. I noticed a template folder was added to Framemaker 11 and I am wondering if we need to import our cross references formats into it.

Thanks in advance.
Margo

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MargoTothAuthor

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Turns out this was a different issue - xrefs weren't being written to the xml because of a setting in the ditafm.ini file.

Thanks for your help though. It is a good thinkg to know.

Margo

Rsfl

Inspiring

Hi,
what setting was that, can you explain your solution? I am having a similar problem.

Robert

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MargoTothAuthor

Participating Frequently

Hi Robert,

In the ditafm-output.ini file there is a setting uder General Options

CompositeDocTemplate_1.2=ditabase.template.fm

This is the template file used to create a composite book. Your cross-reference formats neet to be in this template.

Hope that helps.

Margo

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Community Expert

Hi Margo,

I believe you've struck upon the solution.

When working with DITA, your XML files get imported into a series of template files each time you open them. I'll wager that if you import the xref formats into those template files (make a backup of the templates folder, just in case...) that you'll get what you're looking for.

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

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