Tridion Docs - Conref question: How is the referenced object version tracked?

Article Number:000022884 | Last Updated:10/31/2024 6:28 PM

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Question

Conrefs, in our understanding, conveniently allow importing content from another object into a given topic via a reference to that object.

Looking at the typical form of a conref:

<ph conref="GUID-E00A9A6B-CA69-4EE2-9450-98865432C25C#GUID- E00A9A6B-CA69-4EE2-9450-98865432C25C /GUID-6769F5EE-583E-4DE8-B908-0248TE342476" id="GUID-xxx" />

It is clear that the reference includes the library's GUID and subsection's GUID, but not the version.

We know that a publication baseline mentions the library and its version number. However that is only true inside publications. If I create a new topic (outside of a publication) and I want to reference a library, I can pick the lib version I want.

Which leads to this:
- for new Topic A, Joe conrefs Lib X v1
- for new Topic B, Don conrefs Lib X v3

So my question: if A and B are not yet included in a pub, how is the Lib X version persisted?

Answer

In general, conrefs will reflect the latest version. In the scenario above, if you have two topics conreffing different versions of a lib file element outside a pub, both topics will reflect the latest version of the conreffed element the next time they are opened.

Once the topics are released and used in a pub, they will also reflect the latest version of the lib file element, unless you select to use a previous version of the lib file in the Resources folder in Publication Manager.

If you release a publication that includes the topics, or freeze the baseline, the version at the time it was released or frozen is retained in the pub.

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