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Strange behaviors with XMetaL 12 and SDL Tridion Docs 2018

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We recently upgraded to XMetaL 12 with SDL Tridion Docs 2018. Since the upgrade, we are seeing a few strange behaviors:
  * All objects that we check out from the CMS and edit with XMetaL 12 assign a "cid" attribute to every DITA element.
  * When editing DITA topics that have conref'd elements within table cells, some of the conrefs can be selected/highlighted, but others can't (the selection appears to happen, but the highlighting does not, so the user doesn't know the conref'd element is actually selected).

Has anyone seen these behaviors before? Many thanks for any help you can give. I have cross-posted this to the XMetaL technical community.

Paul Masalsky
McAfee
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  • Hi Paul

    On the first one, @cid attributes are generated by the IWritePlugin system. @cid is short for comment-ids, a way to identify elements like paragraphs without relying on extra @id which would in turn allow tech writers to have more link-landing-anchors. Anyway it might be worthwhile to verify your earlier Settings > IWritePlugin (perhaps OnDocStore) on the "cid" configuration. If you don't use Collaborative Review I think you can actually disable the @cid generating plugin.

    The second one looks more XMetaL oriented.

    -Dave

    PS: We are calling it Tridion Docs 13 (not 2018) ;-)
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  • Hi Paul

    On the first one, @cid attributes are generated by the IWritePlugin system. @cid is short for comment-ids, a way to identify elements like paragraphs without relying on extra @id which would in turn allow tech writers to have more link-landing-anchors. Anyway it might be worthwhile to verify your earlier Settings > IWritePlugin (perhaps OnDocStore) on the "cid" configuration. If you don't use Collaborative Review I think you can actually disable the @cid generating plugin.

    The second one looks more XMetaL oriented.

    -Dave

    PS: We are calling it Tridion Docs 13 (not 2018) ;-)
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