Endnote numbers all become 0

[MikeTO]

I don't think I've seen this reported before, my endnotes were all numbered 0 in the actual endnotes while in the main text they were numbered correctly. I've attached a screen recording and the test document.

Note that the endnote numbers change to 0 while I'm dragging the text frame from page 1 to 2, even before I release it. And if I drag it back the endnote numbers are renumbered correctly. Adding a new endnote or deleting the first one won't solve the problem.

notes.afpub 

 

 

[mkaramy]

Did you solve this problem? The same thing is happening to me.

[Komatös]

33 minutes ago, mkaramy said:

Did you solve this problem? The same thing is happening to me.

Welcome to the forum.

This bug was fixed with version 2.1.0.1703/5.

Which version are you using?
 

[mkaramy]

Thanks for the fast response! I am using version 2.1.1

The numbers are correct in-text, but inconsistent in the endnote section. Some say 0, others correspond to the right number. One thing I noticed is that for the endnotes that say "0", the arrow button to quickly get to the page with the in-text citation number doesn't work. Whereas, the arrow button works for the endnotes that are properly numbered. 

Is there something that could be disconnecting the in-text number with the endnote section? Here are my notes panel settings below.

[MikeTO]

8 hours ago, mkaramy said:

Thanks for the fast response! I am using version 2.1.1

The numbers are correct in-text, but inconsistent in the endnote section. Some say 0, others correspond to the right number. One thing I noticed is that for the endnotes that say "0", the arrow button to quickly get to the page with the in-text citation number doesn't work. Whereas, the arrow button works for the endnotes that are properly numbered. 

Is there something that could be disconnecting the in-text number with the endnote section? Here are my notes panel settings below.

While your endnote is numbered 0, this is a different issue than what was reported in this thread.

A number of 0 simply indicates that the endnote reference is broken so it's not surprising the "go to" feature didn't work.

I'd have to see the document to hazard a guess at what the cause could be. There were more of these issues in 2.0 but a lot of it has been fixed in 2.1. I'm not tool surprised though, I continue to experience some issues and crashes with the notes feature.

[mkaramy]

I'm new to using Affinity Publisher so I might be doing something obviously wrong. Here is my document if you have a moment to take a look.

 

 

endnotes_issue.afpub

[MikeTO]

17 hours ago, mkaramy said:

I'm new to using Affinity Publisher so I might be doing something obviously wrong. Here is my document if you have a moment to take a look.

This is a relatively new feature of Publisher and still has a few challenges. It's also a bit confusing.

First, I highly recommend defining unique character styles for the two Number Style options in Notes > Format. Not only will this let you change the formatting of all of them at once later, it's very hard to find note references if the feature isn't working correctly and you can't use the Go to Reference button in the panel. That's the challenge I had when opening your document. Adding a character style to In Main Text > Number Style would let you use the Find & Replace feature to find all instances of the note reference number style.

Your document doesn't make use of styles, you just applied formatting manually to each heading, so you might want to check out the text styles feature because it will make your work much easier in the long run.

Now back to the issue at hand. Your endnotes are quite messed up but this isn't your fault because the endnotes feature makes it a bit too easy to break things. It's really important to type the body text of the note between the endnote brackets.

test.afpub

I've modified your document a bit to make the issue easier to see. Don't use this version, it's just for review. I added a character style for Main Text > Number Style to make the note references (markers) big, bold, and red, so they jump out on the page.

On page 2, note marker 1 is good, it links to endnote 1 (Max Doerner). You can click Go to Body when the cursor is beside the note reference marker and Go to Reference when the cursor is in the note body. If you can toggle between the reference marker and the note body then it's a good endnote. (I might not have the same page breaks as you as I don't have the font you used.)

On page 3, note marker 2 is where the problem starts. You can click Go to Body and it takes you to one of the several [0] endnotes - there is no endnote text and it's not numbered. This marker is broken. You can delete the reference marker (which will delete one of the [0] endnotes) but adding it back will simply add another [0] endnote.

There's no point going through all the remaining endnotes, they are broken in multiple ways. The only solution is to:

1. Click in the endnotes text, Select All, Copy, and Paste it into another program like a text editor or word processor. Now you won't lose the endnote text you've typed. Save the document under a new name.
2. Delete all the endnotes by going through the document and finding all the reference markers and deleting them. Make sure you get all of them.
3. Delete the pages with the endnotes on them, delete the pages using the Pages panel.
4. Add the two character styles I mentioned above and select them in the Notes panel. Save the document again.
5. Add the first few markers back one by one - if it doesn't work properly, close the document and re-open the saved version. Look to see if you really deleted all the markers. Be really careful to type the new endnote text between the brackets.

The rest of this is for Serif to illustrate some issues. I was going to recommend these steps but it doesn't work as it should:

1. Choose Convert Notes from the Endnotes panel menu. Choose from Endnotes to Footnotes, for the Entire Document. The endnotes text will now look like this:
   
2. There are broken endnote brackets here and some text that isn't part of an endnote. Select All again and press Delete. Unfortunately, that will leave you with this:
   
3. There's a broken endnote bracket that won't go away. You can solve this by deleting the two linked endnote text frames or by deleting the entire spread.
4. I would have suggested to choose Convert Notes again and this time choose from Footnotes to Endnotes for the Entire Document, but you can't do that. Although the endnotes were all set to document-wide with Numbering > Restart Every Document, the footnotes are now set to document-wide with Numbering > Restart Every Frame. IMO it shouldn't change the restart setting.
5. So click in the first footnote (Max Doerner on page 2). Change Numbering to > Restart Every Document. The notes on pages 2-3 are now correct and are numbered 1 through 5. Notes 2-5 are empty because there was no endnote text for those markers.
6. Now on page 4 there is are two markers numbered 1 and 2 again. I wondered if they were a custom since there's really no way to discern that so I chose Revert all Footnotes to Document Settings. No change.
7. I tried Reset Document Settings to Factory Defaults which changed restart back to Every Frame. I then changed it back to Every Document and Revert all Footnotes to Document Settings again but no change.
8. I tried adding a note to the text frame at the top of the page and that worked fine. I tried deleting the two markers out of the frame at the bottom of page 4 and adding a new one but that made no difference.
9. Here's where it gets interesting. I deleted the frame at the bottom of page 4 (which was unlinked so that should have deleted the markers entirely), drew a new frame, and inserted a marker. It was numbered 3 as if those two deleted markers still existed. This is where I gave up. 🙂 

[mkaramy]

Thank you so much for this detailed response, it is very much appreciated! What worked for me was not only deleting the endnotes but also deleting the text boxes. The problem that I have now is that for some reason all my pages are exporting except for my endnotes page! Any recommendations on how to fix this?

[MikeTO]

16 hours ago, mkaramy said:

Thank you so much for this detailed response, it is very much appreciated! What worked for me was not only deleting the endnotes but also deleting the text boxes. The problem that I have now is that for some reason all my pages are exporting except for my endnotes page! Any recommendations on how to fix this?

Hmm, perhaps check in the Section Manager to ensure there's not a non-printing section at the end of the document.

[mkaramy]

That worked! Thanks so much!