i want to add a cross reference but i get a message saying i can't add one at the document, any ideas why??

[dorothea.per]

i want to add a cross reference but i get a message saying i can't add one at the document, any ideas why??

[RoboColum_n_]

Can you give us some more detail? Are you adding the cross reference to somewhere else in the same document or another document? Exactly what is the error message you are getting?

[dorothea.per]

no, i just want to add a new name for a new cross but frame says: Cannot add more cross-reference formats to this documents

[RoboColum_n_]

This thread should help you:

Re: Question/need help with cross-reference formats (FM8, Windows)

I think you need to rethink the number of formats you are using. You shouldn't need too many.

[dorothea.per]

these are translated files, client created originally crosses.

is there any way to lock numbers of them?

[RoboColum_n_]

The number of cross reference formats you can have can't be changed. You have the following options:

• Get the client to amend the FM files.
• Delete the cross reference formats. When you do this you are given the option to convert them to plain text.

[Bob_Niland]

> You shouldn't need too many.

An excess of Cross-Reference Formats usually has one of a few causes:

1. Hack: They are being used as a work-around for Frame's lack of a Definition: [<$markertext>] format type, where each Marker is unique to the target text. Once the apparently low maximum capacity of the Cross-Reference Format Catalog is reached, the solutions for this include using Run-In para formats so that Definition: [<$paratext>] works as desired, or waiting for FM 17.0.3e (maybe).
2. Confusion: The author(s) didn't understand how to craft generalized Xref formats, and grew the catalog needlessly. Some clean-up is indicated.
3. Pollution: The enterprise had no documented conventions for Xref formats, and Defs under different Names, large groups of which do the same thing, have been accumulating over the years, usually under multiple authors. Some clean-up is indicated.

[FieryPantone]

FM 17.0.3e (maybe)

Is that the release that's going to put the focus for Find in the {find string} field instead of the interface accelerators, include history pulldowns in both Find and Change, and offer a pulldown for Paragraph tag and Character tag finds populated from the document? or am I just rushing ahead again …

[FieryPantone]

2. Confusion: The author(s) didn't understand how to …

… and may have had their perceptions warped by working with a certain well-known word-processor where something as basic as "see {text} on {page}" requires two separate xrefs :-}