Highlighting 'Used By' Relationship in DITA topics

[dkb123]

Hi there,

When you insert a conref in Oxygen it identifies that content as a conref by shading the text and also providing a link to the source topic containing the conrefed content, which is great.

But there is no way of seeing from the source topic that some of its content is being used - via a conref - in another topic. It would be hugely beneficial for increasing reusability friendliness to have that 'used by' relationship identified in a similar manner to the 'uses' relationship currently identified when a conref is inserted.

I appreciate that Reusable components can be created, but I don't like our chances of selling that method to the greater writing team.

Thanks!

[adrian]

Hello,

Thank you for the feedback.

We already plan to implement the means to search for references in the project or a defined working set. I've added your vote for this feature on our issue tracking tool.

Regards,
Adrian

[kwringe]

I would also like champion this idea. We have a similar need for xincludes in DocBook. But instead of a search tool, we'd prefer if when a file that is the source (used by) content is opened in oXygen, it would be useful to have this content appear visually distinct and display the location where the content is used. (i.e., the reverse of the information displayed when you open a file that contains xinclude information).

[adrian]

Hi,

I've added your vote as well and mentioned your comments. Maybe we can implement a generic support that could cover DITA, DocBook and possibly other frameworks as well.

Regards,
Adrian