cross-references don't update

[eluengo]

After inserting some pages at the beginning of a book, all the cross-references went dereferenced, preflight showed error in all of them.

But buttons for updating one or all cross-references doesn't update them to the correct target. They should be manually corrected reference by reference.

Is this a normal behaviour or not?

I send a short video....

Emilio

 

 

[MikeTO]

I'm unable to duplicate this. I opened one of my books with hundreds of cross-references and added some pages before page 1. All of my cross-references updated automatically.

Can you share a screen recording showing what you did to cause the cross-references to become outdated?

[eluengo]

Hello MikeTO

This is the sequence
--  A pair of new inserted blank pages
-- I select a pair of text frames containing the text of a TOC in the previous pages
-- Duplicate (by selecting-option.dragging) and positioning onto the new fresh pages
-- After it entering text by double.clicking, selecting all text thru command.A
-- Then erasing all this text (no affecting the original Index, indeed) with the keyboard (⌫)
-- With the erasing of this text, all the cross-references are dereferenced (as you can see: the little dark circles with the checkmark inside transform all to hollow circles with a little interrogation mark inside), not before

I think the video shows it OK

Sure, If I create new text frames instead of duplicating previous TOC-containing, the page numbers from the cross-references mantain themselves correctly.

It's an annoying behaviour only because duplicating a previous existing text frame is speedier than recreating new ones and applicating all the quirks and whistles that these should have to maintain homogeneous styles throughout the book.

Thanks for your attention

Emilio

[MikeTO]

Hi Emilio. If you duplicate TOC 1's frame you will create TOC 2, but the two TOCs now share the same anchors. If you delete either TOC, you will delete the anchors used by the cross-references. Therefore, never duplicate a TOC. There are lots of ways to create blank pages with new text frames but using master pages with the text frames on them is easiest.

[eluengo]

Thanks MikeTO

Sure this anchor duplication does occur, but the anchors dereferenced was not those from the TOC, they was the other not related to the TOC but to the cross-referencing.

Either there is a hidden link between all references (this should not occur or be never so programmed) or a confusion between with multiple references to an unique anchor. In either case appear to be a programming confusion.

For my case it has no much transcendence because I know how to do the same thing thru different procedures. It was only because this way is quicker than other. But is not really a problem. Hopefully this can alert the programmers to search for this unstability (and other ones that those, otherwise very good, apps have, specially with the text styles).

Thanks for trying to help

Emilio