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Posted: **Fri Sep 09, 2016 6:54 pm**

Hi,
I am trying to use a conkeyref across 2 sibling ditamaps within a root ditamap.
I have set the user-defined metadata attribute product for each of the sibling ditamaps.
In m_iproperty_docs.ditamap

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<map collection-type="sequence" product="iproperty">

 <!-- Key definitions -->

 <keydef keys="variables" href="variables_ip.dita" product="iproperty"/> 

 <!-- End Key definitions -->

and in m_iproperty_ags.ditamap

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<map collection-type="sequence" product="ipropertyAGS">

<!-- Key Definitions -->

  <keydef keys="variables" href="variables_ipags.dita" product="ipropertyAGS"/>

  <!-- end Key Definitions -->

I am setting the key values as follows:
in variables_ip.dita

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<concept id="variables_ip" product="iproperty">

 <title>Variables_ip</title>

 <conbody>

  <p><ph id="summary">The <ph conref="../../../dita_files/t_content_refs.dita#t_content_refs/iproperty"/> <ph conkeyref="variables_iproperties/summary"/>

   Archived work order tasks (work orders older than six months) are included by default.</ph>

   <image></image>

   <ph conkeyref="variables_iproperties/actions"/>    

  </p>

and in variables_ipags.dita

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<!DOCTYPE concept PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">

<concept id="variables_ipags" product="ipropertyAGS">

 <title>Variables iPags</title>

 <conbody>

  <!-- summary -->

  <p><ph id="summary">

    The <ph conref="../../../dita_files/t_content_refs.dita#t_content_refs/ipropertyags"/> <ph conkeyref="variables_iproperties/summary"/>

   </ph></p>

And I am trying to use the keys as follows expecting that the product attribute will be taken into account at build time.
In c_prop_summary.dita

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<!DOCTYPE concept PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">

<concept id="c_prop_summary" product="iproperty">

 <title>Property Summary - <ph conref="../../t_content_refs.dita#t_content_refs/iproperty"/></title>

 <shortdesc><ph conkeyref="variables/summary"/></shortdesc>

and in c_prop_summary_ags.dita

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<!DOCTYPE concept PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">

<concept id="c_prop_summary_ags" product="ipropertyAGS">

 <title>Property Summary - <ph conref="../../../t_content_refs.dita#t_content_refs/ipropertyags"/></title>

 <shortdesc><ph conkeyref="variables/summary"/></shortdesc>

However, only the first key defined is used at build time i.e. from variables_ip.dita.

I don't understand how to ensure that the correct key value is resolved based on the product metadata value.
Any advice appreciated,
Regards,
Ann

Posted: **Tue Sep 13, 2016 2:19 pm**

Hi Ann,

This is one of those cases where attaching a small small DITA project would help.
The @product attribute, among others can be used to filter out content.
Am I to understand that you do not actually want to filter content (exclude either one or the other topic) but to somehow use it as an indication to a certain value that a key name should resolve to?
A key can be bound to more than one values only using the DITA 1.3 key scoping feature:

http://blog.oxygenxml.com/2015/08/dita- ... on-of.html

Regards,
Radu

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