[oXygen-user] Feature Request: Create Multiple Conrefs With One Selection

[Radu Coravu]

Hi Matt,

I added your vote for this.

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
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On 1/28/2013 4:55 PM, KAATMAN Matthew wrote:
> Eliot,
>
> You can also assign keyboard shortcuts to both of these.
>
> It's under:
> Options -> Preferences -> Document Type Association -> Author Tab -> Actions
> paste.reference  and paste.content.reference. I've got them set to Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V and Ctrl+Alt+V
>
> Radu,
> I was actually trying to reference multiple items last week so that would be great if it were added in the future.
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oxygen-user-bounces at oxygenxml.com [mailto:oxygen-user-bounces at oxygenxml.com] On Behalf Of Eliot Kimber
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 8:38 AM
> To: Oxygen XML Editor Support; Oxygen User
> Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] Feature Request: Create Multiple Conrefs With One Selection
>
> I think that makes sense--I wasn't aware of this feature--would definitely make creating conrefs easier.
>
> I am creating conkeyrefs, so detecting keys would be idea/required.
>
> Cheers,
>
> E.
>
> On 1/28/13 4:29 AM, "Oxygen XML Editor Support" <support at oxygenxml.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Eliot,
>>
>> I had a new idea about how this multiple insertion of conkeyrefs could
>> be implemented.
>> When you right click inside a DITA topic opened in the Author mode you
>> have two actions called "Paste as Link" and "Paste as Content Reference".
>>
>> Basically you can copy an entire element from a topic and use these
>> actions to insert a conref or an xref to that target topic.
>>
>> Right now these special paste actions work only if you have copied a
>> single element but they could be extended to work if multiple elements
>> have been copied.
>> Also right now only conrefs are added but if Oxygen detects that a key
>> is defined in the DITA Map for the targeted topic it could insert
>> conkeyref (for "Paste as Content Reference") or xref keyref (for
>> "Paste as Link").
>>
>> Regards,
>> Radu
>>
>> Radu Coravu
>> <oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
>> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>>
>> On 1/28/2013 10:12 AM, Oxygen XML Editor Support wrote:
>>> Hi Eliot,
>>>
>>> I will add this as an improvement request and if we get more user
>>> feedback we might approach it in a future version.
>>> I do not yet see a way in which the dialogs would give the user a
>>> clear indication what he will insert when he chooses multiple elements.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Radu
>>>
>>> Radu Coravu
>>> <oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
>>> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>>>
>>> On 1/27/2013 6:01 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
>>>> In my training development mentioned earlier, I'm making all my
>>>> prerequisites and objectives reusable and then constructing all such
>>>> lists in modules via conref. This requires a separate conref for
>>>> each individual list item or lcObjective.
>>>>
>>>> The conkeyref creation dialog is easy enough to use, but it only
>>>> lets me create one reference at a time (I'm not doing range references).
>>>>
>>>> It would be much more convenient if there was some way that I could
>>>> select multiple targets and have it create an individual conref to
>>>> each one. Not sure how you'd do that and make a clear distinction
>>>> between creating a range reference and multiple single references,
>>>> but it would be very convenient if it was possible.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> E.
>>>>
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