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kangxw1-Visitor
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June 19, 2019
Question

Xref link does not work when referecning topics in Windchill

  • June 19, 2019
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Hi,

 

I am using Windchill Service information manager for technical publication.

 

We have a lot of xref in our documents. I found out that the xref doesn't work when I am trying to link a topic xincluded in another topic in publication structure when publishing to PDF.

 

For example, I have a topic1 with topic 1.1 and topic 1.2 inside it and a topic 2. When I am trying to xref topic 1.1 in topic 2, the link is broken. Both topic 1 and topic 2 are added to the publication structure or techinfomap.

 

I got a warning from WVS saying that "Item ... referenced from ...., but not included in the map".

 

Does anyone have any thoughts about this?

 

BTW, I have turned off usenewdita settings. We are using Windchill 11.1 and arbortext 7.1.

 

Thanks,

XW

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ClayHelberg18-Opal
18-Opal
June 27, 2019

You are using xinclude to embed subtopics within topics? That's not the usual way to do it--usually topic structure would be built with the publication structure, where topics 1.1 and 1.2 are child objects of topic 1 in the pub structure, but topic 1 doesn't try to embed the child topics explicitly (with xinclude or file entity references).

 

I suspect you're having problems with the xrefs because SIM doesn't expect you to be using xincludes in this way, so it doesn't load the child topics into the map it generates from the pub structure.

 

You will probably have better luck if you remove the xincludes, and use nested pub structure items to define subtopic structure instead.

 

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kangxw1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
June 27, 2019

Hi Clay,

 

Thanks for you response.

 

My topic1 is like:

<topic>

<title>Topic 1</title>

  <body>

    <p>...</p>

  </body>

  <topic>

    <title>topic1.1</title>

       <body>

        <p>...</p>

       </body>

   </topic>

  <topic>

    <title>topic1.2</title>

       <body>

        <p>...</p>

       </body>

   </topic>

</topic>

 

I tried to build topic1.1 and topic 1.2 as topic 1 's child object in publication structure but I think I can not. In PS, it don't allow me to nest an information element under an information element. It just insert topic1.1 and topic1.2 below topic1 instead.  See snapshot below.

 

I guess Windchill best practice is to make Topic1 a publication section and insert topic1.1 and 1.2 into it. However, in our case, there is body under Topic1 so I can't just make it as a Publication section. Please let me know if I am doing this right or this is other ways to nest topics.

 

Thanks,

Xuwei

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