Find DITA references

Understand how to find DITA references in Adobe FrameMaker.

You can search through a document or recursively through multiple files in a folder for links such as conref, topicref, link, or xref. By default, the Find References dialog box populates the ID of the current topic and element, if any is selected. Typically, you select the element which is referenced elsewhere, and then call this option.

1. Choose Structure > DITA > Find References. Or, to find the reference of the current element, right-click within the element, and select Find References. The element ID is populated automatically.

2. In the Find References dialog, enter the ID of the element, if necessary.

3. Optionally, to limit the search within a keyspace, select the keyspace for the current document.

4. Set the search scope. If you select a folder, you can recursively search for references to the element in all the files in the folder.

5. Click Search.