Cross-reference broken when object pinned above its target

[MikeTO]

This is a regression from 2.2.1 but easily worked around by updating all cross-references.

If you paste an object inline anywhere above the target of a cross-reference, the xref will become outdated and its value will be assigned to the xref below it. This test doc has xrefs to TOC anchors, a manual anchor, and to a paragraph, and they're all impacted the same way.

I don't know if 2.3 documents are supposed to be able to open in 2.2.1 but opening this doc in 2.2.1 will result in blank values for the cross-references so something has changed.

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[Affinity Info Bot]

An issue raised in this thread ("Cross-reference broken when object pinned above its target") has now been reported to the developers by the testing team (Ref: AF-959). Thank you very much for reporting this issue to us.

[MikeTO]

FYI for those struggling with this bug, there is a workaround. For example, I had a cross-reference to an anchor at the top of a page but the xref returned the paragraph body of the preceding paragraph. There weren't even any inline objects on that page but I assume the trigger for this bug is an inline object anywhere in the story before the anchor.

The workaround is to add a page break before the anchor.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Cross references need updating when objects pasted inline above target" (REF: AF-959) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.3.0.2139".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.

[MikeTO]

Thank you for fixing this one so quickly!