Books panel still doesn’t work properly in 2.2 Beta 1903 Beta

[Mr. Dyck]

I had problems with adding chapters and renumbering in 2.1.1

Because this problems were known and promised to be solved in 2.2,  I tried the Beta version. It works better in some way, but it is still very unreliable.

Very often when I open an existing book file the program tells: 1 document is being loaded. But there will be no end of loading.

adding the fourth chapter very often freezes the program. The renumbering of the three first chapters works well, but the third chapter freezes.

I tried it several times, I created new book files, but no change. Could it be connected to the size of the documents? They are between 200MB an 1000MB about 16 pages.

I use it on Windows 11.

I cannot upload all my files for public because of copyright conditions, but I could send it to someone for troubleshooting.

I add some crash reports from the official release version. The beta somehow didn’t save any crash reports.

 

 

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[MikeTO]

2 hours ago, Mr. Dyck said:

Very often when I open an existing book file the program tells: 1 document is being loaded. But there will be no end of loading.

I assume you mean this happens when opening one of the chapter documents, not when opening the Book itself, is that right? The Book should open immediately and there shouldn't be a loading status message.

if it's when opening a chapter document, try starting Publisher and opening that chapter without opening the Book first. Does the same thing happen? Do you have linked resources If so, you've run into this same bug I've experienced but it's not related to Books. Ignore the title of this thread, it's not specific to opening 2.1 files.

 

[Jon P]

On top of what Mike has asked, if you'd like to provide us with the chapters you are adding we can have a go at reproducing this.

You can use this link to keep it private, the file will only be used for testing

[Mr. Dyck]

Today I opened all files first, before I opened the book. Opening the files seperately wasnt a problem yet.

Having all files opened, the books panel worked fine. The renumbering of the pages worked and even synchronising all files at once worked well.
So is that they way the books panel is supossed to work? Do I always have to open alle files before I use renumbering oder synchronization functions of the books panel?

But I have still one question: How is the synchronising of the master pages supposed to work? One single change on a masterpage in the masterfile (Or style source chapter - i dont know how its called in english) leads, after synchronizing all chapters, not to a modified masterpage with the same name, but to a new masterpage with the same name. So I have to reaply the new synchronised masterpage to all my Chapters. Is it supposed to work that way? I expected synchronizing will apply the changes in the masterpage of a masterfile to the masterpage with the same name in the chapter files.

[MikeTO]

30 minutes ago, Mr. Dyck said:

So is that they way the books panel is supossed to work? Do I always have to open alle files before I use renumbering oder synchronization functions of the books panel?

No, you can open the chapter documents after the Book. It is possible for the Books panel to show page numbers that aren't correct - that can happen if you modify a chapter document while the Book is closed. You can update all page numbers after the Book is open by choosing Update Numbers > Page Numbers (or All Numbers) from the Books panel menu. Note that for chapter documents that are closed, they will be opened, updated, and saved automatically. For chapters that are open they will be modified but not saved - you must save them yourself.

33 minutes ago, Mr. Dyck said:

But I have still one question: How is the synchronising of the master pages supposed to work? One single change on a masterpage in the masterfile (Or style source chapter - i dont know how its called in english) leads, after synchronizing all chapters, not to a modified masterpage with the same name, but to a new masterpage with the same name. So I have to reaply the new synchronised masterpage to all my Chapters. Is it supposed to work that way?

Yes, that is the way it was designed to work. Any change you make to a master page will result in a new master being created in other chapters when you sync changes to them. I highly recommend finalizing your master pages before creating additional chapters.