Bug: 4.0d Beta 3: Deleting a highlighting palette reassigns some other highlighting style to places

Create a highlighting palette for temporary use, with a bunch of styles in it.

Apply some of those styles to some places in your resources.

Delete the highlighting palette.

All the places that were highlighted with it get converted to light yellow highlighting. I'm not sure this is what I'd want to have happen if I intentionally deleted a palette. I have just suggested to another user that he could use palettes for temporary use like this and then delete them when he was done with them. There's no way to find all the highlighting marks that were left behind if you did a bunch of highlighting for a temporary purpose and then wanted to get rid of it all at once. I thought deleting a temporary palette would be the easiest way to do it, but due to the way this behaves, that isn't reliable.

I'm sure this was done intentionally to avoid having to put up a warning message to the user: if you delete this palette you will lose all the highlighting that you've done with styles from this palette. Are you sure you want to do this? But I actually think that would be preferable to assuming that the user wants to keep those locations highlighted and just convert them all to some basic default.

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Melissa Snyder

There are two ways to remove the highlighting in this case. One is to select all the text where highlighting exists and press Ctrl+Shift+K to erase (easier if it's all in one section or chapter, of course). Another way is to deselect the "No Palette" highlighting visual filter in the resource, which is created when highlighting is applied to a non-existent palette or style.

One of the other scenarios, besides a deleted palette or style, where they felt that markup with no associated palette would still need to be displayed, is when sync downloads a markup without having yet downloaded the palette.

JimTowler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/137545#Comment_137545

... the "No Palette" highlighting visual filter in the resource, which is created when highlighting is applied to a non-existent palette or style.

WOW - I just tried this: Make a style, mark something, delete the style ==> I got a new "No Palette" VF which I could turn on or off.

For me, I like that idea more that if I was prompted with having to delete all the highlights before I could delete a style.

(However, be nice if wildcard searching worked, so I could search for any highlight using a specific code. Please; we need good wildcard searching)