Hi all,
I'm having a weird issue with conrefs and I'm hoping someone can help.
I have 3 documents: DocA, DocB, and DocC.
I've been using conrefs to reuse rows in a table that need to be repeated in multiple files. DocA is the source file that contains the main content and DocB and DocC contain conrefs to table rows in Doc A.
When I insert the conrefs everything seems to go fine and I'm able to save all the docs as xml without error. However, after I close and reopen DocB, some of the cells are blank (e.g., in a 3 column table, some rows will still have content in column 1, but not column 2 or 3). When I look at the details for the affected rows, the conrefs seem to have disappeared.
I've tried reinserting the conrefs, and this seems to work fine until I reopen the file. When I reopen the file, the conrefs I fixed generally appear, but cells in a different row are missing. To make matters even weirder, DocC, which contains conrefs to the exact same rows, works fine and all the conrefs show up.
This problem has occured in several sets of files. I really don't know what to do. I've tried reassigning IDs to all of the source rows in DocA and rebuilding the tables in DocB and DocC, but the same problem keeps popping up (sometimes it goes away for a few days and then returns).
I've also checked the DITA Options and the "Auto-Load Conrefs On File Open" is enabled.
Has anyone run into a similar problem or know anything about this? I'm getting nervous about using conrefs at all if they can disappear without warning!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
D'Arcy