Insert a Direct Content Reference

You should follow these steps for inserting an element with a content reference (conref) attribute:
  1. Start one of the actions Insert a DITA Content Reference and Insert a DITA Content Key Reference.
  2. In the dialog Insert Content Reference select the file with the referenced content in the URL field.
  3. In the tree that presents the DITA elements of the specified file that have an id attribute you have to select the element or the interval of elements that you want to reference. The conref field will be filled automatically with the id value of the selected element. If you select an interval of elements the conrefend field will be filled with the id value of the element that ends the selected interval.
  4. Press the OK button to insert in the current DITA file an element with the same name and with the same conref attribute value (and optionally with the same conrefend attribute value) as the element(s) selected in the dialog.