[oXygen-user] Map Managed Icons for Map References

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Hi Eliot,

I fully agree with your analysis.
I added an improvement request to modify the map ref icon to something 
more relevant (maybe the same icon but with a small arrow in it).
And I also agree with the ambiguity of showing both map ref and the map, 
usually with the same title in the tree. But I have no idea about how 
this could be avoided.

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
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On 1/27/2013 4:20 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
> I'm going through the exercise of creating training materials. I'm using
> submaps to organize sessions and modules so I'm creating maps with lots of
> map references.
>
> One thing I'm noticing is that the icon for a map reference is the same as
> the icon for the map, which leads to kind of odd results in the map manager.
>
> I know that all the components have to be reflected in the tree: the map
> reference, the referenced map, and the map's child topicrefs, so there's no
> getting around what, conceptually, are redundant levels in the tree
> (relative to what will actually show up in the final table of contents).
>
> However, I think it might be clearer in the map manager if the map reference
> icon was distinguished from the map icon.
>
> Part of the oddness of the map manager view is that the when the submap has
> a title, which all of mine do, then the map reference node and the map node
> both reflect the same title, so you get:
>
> mapref: -> Module: My Module Title
> map:    ---> Module: My Module Title
> Topicref------> My Module Title
>
> Where the title of the first topicref is often the same as or very similar
> to the map title (in my case, I'm using e.g. "Module: " in the map title for
> module maps but not in the title for the actual module root topic, so the
> map title and root topicref title differ only by "Module: ").
>
> Cheers,
>
> E.
>
>