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Increasing FISHRELEASELABEL metadata

Naoki Hirai

Our service manuals include many topics that include a title element only. For example, "Safety", "Mechanism", "Servicing", "Specifications", and so on. I know that using the title only topic does not conform to DITA writing recommendation. But it's difficult to avoid using such a topic. We reuse such title only topics to unify titles and to save translation costs. Of course, such title only topics are reused for many manuals.

One day, I exported a publication and I realized that the reused title only topics have many values for the FISHRELEASELABEL metadata. This means if we reuse a topic for many manuals, metadata for the topic increase on and on.

For the above background, I'd like to know whether we should avoid reusing a topic for too many manuals.

If someone has knowledge on this matter, please let me know.

Thank you in advance for your support.
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  • Hi Naoki,

    Can you put a number/count on the FISHRELEASELABEL entries so we can assess? You get a new FISHRELEASELABEL entry every time you freeze a baseline and your topic version in question is used in the baseline.

    Now if you feel a limitation coming in some way, a very simple workaround is to duplicate those specific topics under a new LogicalID. You could even duplicate the translations.

    -Dave
  • in reply to Dave De Meyer

    Hi Dave,

    More than 100 entries have been added to the FISHRELEASELABEL metadata. However, there is no doubt that the number of entries will increase in the future. The suggested workaround makes sense. If we'll encounter any problem, we'll obey your suggestion.

    Thanks,

    Naoki