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

[Eliot Kimber]

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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