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Quick Assist Support for IDs and IDREFS

The Quick Assist support is activated automatically when you place the cursor inside an ID or IDREF in Text mode. To access it, click the yellow bulb help marker placed on the current line, in the line number stripe of the editor. You can also invoke the Quick Assist menu from the contextual menu or by pressing Alt+1 (Command+Alt+1 on macOS) on your keyboard.

The following actions are available:

Rename in: Renames the ID and all its occurrences. Selecting this action opens the Rename XML ID dialog box. This dialog box lets you insert the new ID value and choose the scope of the rename operation. For a preview of the changes you are about to make, click Preview. This opens the Preview dialog box, which presents a list with the files that contain changes and a preview zone of these changes.
Search Declarations: Searches for the declaration of the ID reference. By default, the scope of this action is the current project. If you configure a scope using the Select the scope for the Search and Refactor operations dialog box, this scope will be used instead.
Search References: Searches for the references of the ID. By default, the scope of this action is the current project. If you configure a scope using the Select the scope for the Search and Refactor operations dialog box, this scope will be used instead.
Change scope: Opens the Select the scope for the Search and Refactor operations dialog box.
Rename in File: Renames the ID you are editing and all its occurrences from the current file.
Search Occurrences: Searches for the declaration an references of the ID located at the cursor position in the current document.