Faq-O-Matic Faq-O-Matic: Cross References

	Faq-O-Matic Faq-O-Matic : Administrators' Guide : Suggestions : Cross References
	Though you can do it now with an HTML answer, it would be neat to have a way to cross reference sections of a FAQ. Add a command that says 'Cross Reference' and it brings up a form with all the available catagories and sub catagories. You then select one and it adds a link near the top of the answers like: See also: [Cross refed catagories] This would allow you to link somewhat related sections that don't necessarily belong under the same catagory or actually apply to two different sections of the faq.
	Maybe an easier way for setting cross references is to be able to do a search whilst adding an answer and selecting results for a cross reference.
	Well, it would be neat if subsections of an answer could be directely crossreferenced, like the HTML-Tag combination (a href="#anchor")(/a) and (a name="anchor")(/a), too. At the moment you can only crossreference categories or answers as described in Composing text with Untranslated HTML.
	In order to choose the target address of cross-reference the best way is to show the same list of categories (and answers) as the user saw when tried to MOVE the category.
	I agree with the other posters. Being able to add: ((missing or broken file)) ... is extremely helpful as implemented. This allows us to point users to the same FOM answer for multiple questions, but it doesn't allow us to override wording (drat). I tried doing that and FOM wouldn't let me so I am forced to customize the code to allow for it. Please be aware that the title I typed in is different than the title of topic 440 (above). I changed the text in the braces to "Compact Edit Commands are far too vague". I also changed the topic ID from 440 to 4. As FOM demonstrated, it's not possible to override the title of a FOM entry, but it is possible to cross-reference. When I click Submit Changes, FOM changed what I typed to what it thinks I wanted (which isn't what I wanted for this demonstration).
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