withdrawn - dismissing a loaded but unchanged document in APub indicates the document has been changed

[rufus]

I've been able to work this one to death over the last few days, and it only happens for documents in the book implicitly modified by cross references, therefore not a bug.

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APub 2.6.2. Load a book. Double click on a document in the books document list to open the document for editing. Take no other action. At some point later, dismiss the document using the X on its tab. Sometimes a modal dialog informing you that the document has been modified and asking you if you'd like to save it first appears. And sometimes not (expected behavior). Next time this happens I am going to have to check to see if the document contains a cross reference though. If it does, then of course not a bug.

Note that in and of itself this may be a minor bug. But I post it here because there are a number of complaints against this release about failure to save documents (complaints about things missing and asking if you want to Save As instead; a much more serious bug) and this may be related.

Edited April 24 by rufus
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[walt.farrell]

Just to clarify, when you say "the books document list" are you referring to opening a chapter listed in the Book panel? It sounds like you are, but I want to be sure.

If you are, there are several functions besides cross-references that I think could cause that behavior. Various kinds of numbers (page numbers, global field names used in the Bullets and Numbering section of Paragraphs or Paragraph Text Styles, and more might need to be updated whenever you open a chapter for editing. And then the chapter needs to be saved after those automatic adjustments are made.

I think that we (or more likely Serif) would probably need to have a complete set of files (the .afbook file, all the .afpub chapter files) captured before you opened the Book file and started this, and then possibly a second set captured after you opened the chapter file and then confirmed that you wanted to Save when closing that chapter.