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Subject:RE: Framemaker xrefs break repeatedly From:quills -at- airmail -dot- net To:Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:37:12 -0500
Nancy,
It seems like there might be a corruption in your program. Be that as
it may, you can use the book to update the links, and you should
after you rename files. The from the menu with the book selected is
Edit > Update Book.
Scott
At 8:55 AM -0500 10/10/08, Nancy Allison wrote:
>Here's another wrinkle. When I said this:
>
>> Now, Framemaker has moved on to a new phase. When I open a file, the
>links are broken; when I go to repair them, the cross-reference popup
>gives the the correct file and section already highlighted. All I have
>to do is click "OK."
>
>I was describing using "Find/unresolved cross-references" within a file.
>When I used that Find coma nd within the book file originally, it gave
>me a link in chapter 5, say. A few times, I would go back to the book
>file to search for the next broken link, but links in chapter 5 kept
>being turned up, so I simply started searching from within the file. The
>Find setting was still the same.
>
>It kept turning up links, which I "corrected" as I described above. But
>obviously the links were not broken. So, evidently the Find command
>identifies links as broken that in fact are not.
>
>OK. It's Friday. I'm going to take a deep breath. Any thoughts, thanks
>for your help.
>
>--Nancy
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