Reply To: Anchoring InCopy linked content in ID

I agree w/Chad that you’ve stumbled into a bug and are trying to trick the bug into working for you. ;-D Or maybe not a bug, just an area of InDesign that the programmers ran out of time/resources to deal with long ago. Anchored text frames lose a significant part of their identity when they’re anchored, for example, you can’t thread text into/out of them either.

I would not bother trying to force it to work because I’m afraid it would make the document/story a little “fragile” .. prone to corruption. Or at least user errors.

So you’re trying to create a workflow where:
1. The InDesign user pours copy into a story and into some additional stories
2. The InDesign user exports all those stories to InCopy format
3. (for some reason I don’t understand) The InDesign user anchors some of those add’l stories into the main story (note it’d have to be the ID user who does this, IC users can’t anchor anything) without losing the unique links to the ICML files of neither the parent story nor its anchored stories.
4. The IC user opens the layout and checks out and edits all the stories included the anchored ones
5. The ID user updates the layout and then decides to unanchor stories and place them elsewhere, but maintaining their unique link.

Is that it?

If so i’m curious why the ID user needs to anchor the stories. Why not leave them on the side of the page or in the pasteboard even.

AM