Hi Frank - let me discuss with the user group and get back to you.

It would be really nice if writers could see problems when they arise in Publication Manager, without the need of publishing the document to see the validation errors. However, this is really hard to solve. The biggest problem today is that we *only* know if links, hyperlinks, variables, and so on are valid if you publish the entire document. Only during publishing, we know which objects will be in the resulting document. Because you can put conditions everywhere, combined with the fact that you can nest objects multiple levels deep, it is very hard (and almost impossible) to do this on the fly.

To illustrate the complexity, consider the following example. If you include a topic in a DITA map and this topic contains a hyperlink to another topic which is conditioned out because there is a condition 3 levels up in the hierarchy of the DITA map, you should get a warning. If the topic was not conditioned out, you shouldn't get a warning.  

See additional information in the following post: community.sdl.com/.../modify-pub-manager-so-it-does-not-try-and-resolve-xrefs-that-are-conditionalized-out-of-the-pub

In the scenario that I described, I get a Release Candidate, but it won't release. It throws an error, saying it can't resolve the hypertext link.

Maybe I should pull out what I am asking for into a separate request. It sounds like it is not quite the same.

We would want the Publication Report to show all issues that need to be resolved to move to Release Candidate status.