Reply To: Invoking auto-id generation from a macro?

[schwamkrug]

No, there's nothing DITA-invalid about the markup, and it's not the markup that's cumbersome. What makes it cumbersome is our CMS's conref creation UI. You have to go through multiple dialogs, each of which can be kind of slow to open. Then, you discover that you forgot to add an ID to the element you want to conref, so you have to check out that topic, add the ID, then go through the conref creation dialogs again. My macro just lets my users copy/paste a paragraph (or whatever) and get a conref instead of a plain copy/paste. It doesn't directly interoperate with the CMS. It just looks at topic/element ids at copy time to add a conref to the clipboard.

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