Hi Eliot, I fully agree with your analysis. I added an improvement request to modify the map ref icon to something more relevant (maybe the same icon but with a small arrow in it). And I also agree with the ambiguity of showing both map ref and the map, usually with the same title in the tree. But I have no idea about how this could be avoided. Regards, Radu Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com On 1/27/2013 4:20 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
I'm going through the exercise of creating training materials. I'm using submaps to organize sessions and modules so I'm creating maps with lots of map references.
One thing I'm noticing is that the icon for a map reference is the same as the icon for the map, which leads to kind of odd results in the map manager.
I know that all the components have to be reflected in the tree: the map reference, the referenced map, and the map's child topicrefs, so there's no getting around what, conceptually, are redundant levels in the tree (relative to what will actually show up in the final table of contents).
However, I think it might be clearer in the map manager if the map reference icon was distinguished from the map icon.
Part of the oddness of the map manager view is that the when the submap has a title, which all of mine do, then the map reference node and the map node both reflect the same title, so you get:
mapref: -> Module: My Module Title map: ---> Module: My Module Title Topicref------> My Module Title
Where the title of the first topicref is often the same as or very similar to the map title (in my case, I'm using e.g. "Module: " in the map title for module maps but not in the title for the actual module root topic, so the map title and root topicref title differ only by "Module: ").
Cheers,
E.