Topics taking a long time to open

[digital_nomad]

We are using Sharepoint as our data source for our maps and topics. There are a few topics containing hundreds of links to other topics. These topics with many links take a long time to open. I guess this would be due to the validation of links while opening. Is there any way to speed up the opening of these topics?

[Radu]

Hi,
For each of those internal links if they do not have custom text inside them, Oxygen needs to get the target text from the target topic and display it there. And for now we do not do that as a separate parallel processing, meaning that indeed Oxygen blocks while doing that.

The only workaround I can think of for now would be to create a custom CSS used for editing which no longer displays the linked topic titles directly in the editor area. So maybe you could follow this article to create a custom CSS to use for DITA editing:

https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/customizeDITACSS.html

The custom CSS would need to contain inside:

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*[class~="topic/link"][href]:empty,
*[class~="topic/xref"][href]:empty,
*[class~="topic/link"][type][href]:empty,
*[class~="topic/xref"][type][href]:empty {
    content: "" !important;
}

Regards,
Radu