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Maxine Dye
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report for snippets

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hi does anyone know a way of generating a report identifying which topics snippets are linked to?

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Re: report for snippets

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Hi Maxine,

If the snippets are topics in the current project you can get this with the Find Referrers function (right-click on the topic in the topic files section to access it). However, if the snippets are in external files, in another project or in a style repository you can't get a report for where they are used.
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@Maxine. You can also indirectly check which external snippet files are used by a project by running the Long report and looking for 'Refers to' entries that start with "file::" (e.g. Refers to: file::Security.xml).

@Tim. Might be helpful if 'Refers to' in the Long report could show whether the reference is topiclink, snippet or popup, and distinguish class="external"? Or perhaps produce a version of this report in an intermediate format like XML or json for downstream filtering/formatting?
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thankyou for your help!
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