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Single-sourcing: Deleted content in FM source not reflected in RH update

Explorer ,
Mar 14, 2012 Mar 14, 2012

I discovered today that, when I delete content in my linked FM source, the same content is not deleted or even marked as 'changed' or anything in the RH update!

  • In one situation, I deleted an entire chapter but the topic wasn't deleted.
  • In another, I deleted a section of a chapter, but the section wasn't deleted from the topic. In both cases, I saved the changes in FM before running the update in RH.

Is this a known but undocumented feature? Did I miss a setting somewhere? Is there a fix or update?

It pretty much invalidates the whole purpose of 'linking and updating.' 

Win 7, TC3.

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Explorer ,
Mar 15, 2012 Mar 15, 2012

Bizarre. With another linked book, the deleted FM content was deleted from the RH project. I can't figure out why it worked with one book and not the other.

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Contributor ,
Mar 16, 2012 Mar 16, 2012

Did the deleted content have conditional text applied? I had a similar  issue and this was the problem.

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Explorer ,
Mar 16, 2012 Mar 16, 2012
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Yes, it did. Hhmmm, I wonder why that should make a difference.

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