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hi, i was going to export my document into PDF for press and this massage "There are unresolved or out-of-date cross references in the document" showed up. I can't find out where the problem is, because ID signals no error in the document in the Preflight... i checked all the hyperlinks and converted them into text but it didn't solve the problem. any hints? thanks a lot
I had the same problem. After a bit of sleuthing I found the following easy solution:
Top Menu: drill down: Window > Interactive > Hyperlinks
this will open a panel, with the offending cross references shown in the list (it will have a little "red flag")
select it
then on the bottom / left of the panel you will find an icon (arrow pointing to a page), click that icon and it will take
you directly to the location of the offending un-resolved cross reference. And you can resolve it!
Hi Amy,
You probably figured this out but now (I hope so in any case, seeing we are 6 months further now ) , but just in case...
I'm using Indesign CC and experienced the same problem.
Finally found the missing reference by going to: Window [menu] -> Type & Tables -> Cross References
There I finally found which reference I had overlooked.
Regards,
Philippe
I'm try to view the text in "edit in Story Editor" and search for this item. Delete it if possible, and my problem solved.
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The version that is misbehaving is publicly posted at http://www.conovers.org/ftp/AppSAR-Source-Files/AppSAR-6-Wilderness-First-Aid-1.indd. Having an expert like you look at it would be great!
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I think "broken" Hyperlinks are the ones that have no source or destiation or both:
Attached is a full report as a TXT file - but you should rather open it in Excel or something like that.
There are 617 rows - but broken Hyperlinks are "only" 352.
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>Dopeslap to my forehead< Of course you got all of the errors. Chapters 1-6 are all part of Volume I and have lots of cross-references between them. You would need to download chapters 2-6 from http://www.conovers.org/ftp/AppSAR-Drafts/Individual-Chapters into the same folder to make at least most of those go away. Sorry, I should have thought of that before.
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>Dopeslap to my forehead< Of course you got all of the errors. Chapters 1-6 are all part of Volume I and have lots of cross-references between them. You would need to download chapters 2-6 from http://www.conovers.org/ftp/AppSAR-Drafts/Individual-Chapters into the same folder to make at least most of those go away. Sorry, I should have thought of that before.
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I wasn't checking cross-references - only Hyperlinks.
Even if source or destination is missing - like in case of a missing link to linked file - both should be present.
So if Hyperlink is incomplete - no source or destination or both - I think it can be considered as "bad"?
I have some of your chapters from before - but I thought something was wrong when InDesign started to open them - so I ZIPped them and processed only this file - but I'll download them and try again.
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You would need to download chapters 2-6 from http://www.conovers.org/ftp/AppSAR-Drafts/Individual-Chapters
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There are only PDFs?
1b attached.
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>>two dopeslaps to my head<< I was hurrying to get to the ER for my 7P-2A shift because I realized there was a Kenney Chesney concert in Pittsburgh and my shift was going to be awful, not to mention traffic.
The .indd files are at http://www.conovers.org/ftp/AppSAR-Source-Files/
Sorry!
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For some reason - a bit smaller (*) - attached - but it can't be compared directly with the previous ones as there are extra Destinations not present before.
Still - 352 "broken".
AppSAR-6-Wilderness-First-Aid-1c.txt - raw export done right now
1a.txt - sorted by ID - when processed alone few days ago
1c.txt - sorted by ID - processed today with other INDD files present in the folder and automatically opened by InDesign
If you have TotalCommander or something like that - you can compare them:
(*) - the reason why file generated today is smaller:
Presence of other INDD files made some of the Hyperlinks partially "correct".
So maybe Hyperlink doesn't have to have Source AND Destination to be valid?
Because some of the Hyperlinks - that had no source/destination before - now have destination - but still no source?
Like this one:
21615 | AppSAR-6-Wilderness-First-Aid-1.indd | Hyperlink | Document | Solid | Hyperlink destination document not found. Please verify the document's location in the Hyperlinks panel before choosing this hyperlink. | FALSE | Thin | 740 | Cross-Reference 156 |
FALSE
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21615 | AppSAR-6-Wilderness-First-Aid-1.indd | Hyperlink | Document | Solid | FALSE | Thin | 740 | Cross-Reference 156 | FALSE | |||||||||||||||||
15901 | AppSAR-6-Wilderness-First-Aid-1.indd | HyperlinkTextDestination | Document | FALSE | 22 | Weather? There’s an App for That 1 |
So are they OK or still "broken"?
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Well, I found at least part of the problem. After I checked the hyperlinks panel, and found no errors, but before I saved the version in question, a major publisher of medical journals changed the URLs to all of their articles. Being that I wanted this textbook, at least in the PDF ebook form, to be very interactive, I had put in a URL to click for each of the (many) reference. I just spent a few hours correcting all of these. I will document the details of how I did this in a new post. There is still one hyperlink that shows a red ball but works perfectly when I click on it. I am quite suspicious that these (I have some in the other chapters as well) have some sort of "accept cookies" or "privacy notice" or "four free articles" popups that I have bypassed, but InDesign can't get past. The one in this chapter is https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/sodium-appetite. As before, the Links Panel shows no yellow-triangle exclamation-point signs, the Cross-Reference Panel likewise shows no errors. But still, when I export a PDF, that same error box nags me. I then updated the two Tables of Contents thinking the error message might be to these needing to be updated. However, updating them did not get rid of the error message.
I have started using an .icml (InCopy Markup Language) file for some text that, at the beginning of each chapter, needs to be the same. However, there is no indication from the InCopy icon at the top of that text frame that it needs to be updated. (I found that I could save the text in an .icml file, and then save the frame as well as the text as an object in an InDesign Library. That way I could just drag it from the InDesign Library into each chapter. Slick!)
I then brought up the Book Panel for the entire volume (six chapters) and from the hamburger menu, selected "Update All Cross References" and got this error:
Sigh.
The chapter in question is Chapter 6. The volume in question is Volume I. All of the source files are in http://www.conovers.org/ftp/AppSAR-Source-Files/.
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