View component relationships

You can view component relationships and perform actions to set new relationships, auto-repair one relationship or all relationships, or save a CSV report of component relationships.

Tips and tricks

A content owner or administrator can set permissions to deny access to components or folders. If your permissions to content have been blocked, and you are not an administrator, you cannot use the Advanced options in a project's Content pane.

  • These instructions tell you how to view component relationships from the Components tab, but you can also do this action on components in a project.
  • Inspire now supports content references to ditabase topics. A ditabase topic is a composite topic. Before maps, ditabase was used to collect multiple topics and structure them within a single topic file.
    • If you use a conref to a ditabase topic, Inspire no longer identifies it as an invalid relationship.

To view component relationships:

  1. Click Components.
  2. On the Components tab, select the component with relationships that you want to view.
  3. Right-click the component, select Advanced, and then select Relationships.
  4. On the Manage relationships dialog, you'll see a list of any invalid references.

    By default, when you open the Manage Relationships screen, only Invalid references are shown.

  5. To see all relationships, you must clear the default selection of Only Show Invalid Relationships and click Refresh.

    The AutoRepair and Rebuild All Relationships options may not be available. To use them, you must have one of the following permissions:

    • Administrator
    • Content browser module permissions with the can_rebuild_relationships property.

    Administrators can grant access to non-admin users or roles by following the steps in Allow a non-admin user to rebuild relationships.

  6. To sort the list or add additional columns to the list, select a column title.
  7. If the number of relationships is large, you can use filtering options to limit the number of relationships in the list.
  8. You can use the page navigation options at the bottom of the list to move to the next or previous page in the list.
  9. To filter the list of relationships by words in the component name, enter text in the Search text box and click Search search_button.
  10. Optionally, to save the list of component relationships as a CSV file:
    1. Click Save as CSV ExportCSV.
    2. To choose what time zone is used, on the Convert time confirmation screen, select one of the following:

      You see the date displayed in the header of the CSV as: All date/times are shown in {timezone} or UTC.

      UTC is a time zone standard used as a basis for all time zones worldwide. It is a constant timescale and does not change for Daylight Saving Time.

      • To use your local time, click Yes.
      • To use UTC time, click No
  11. For information on how to repair component relationships, see Manually repair an invalid component relationship.