Error
Cannot edit a secondary connection
Cause
This error occurs when attempting to edit a placeholder connection that was brought into this document via a destination link (where the placeholder connection must be modified within the document containing the source link if that source link placeholder is connected to a spreadsheet).
Solution
When a placeholder connection is added to a new document via a destination link, that connection must be controlled at the source link if the placeholder in the source link is connected to a spreadsheet.
You must return to the document which contains the source link and either modify the connection there, or remove the connection at the source link in order to independently edit each destination link’s placeholder connection.
Note: After the source connection has been either edited or removed, you must publish the link that shared the placeholder between documents.
To modify placeholder connections at each destination document:
- If your placeholder connection is currently an uneditable “secondary connection”, return to the source link document.
- Open the Content placeholders panel on the right side.
- Locate the connection, expand the dropdown menu, and select Disconnect from source.
This will remove the connection at your source link allowing you to manage placeholder connections at each destination link document (recommended).
Make a change to the link which is sharing this placeholder connection and publish. Publishing this link is required to clear the source link connection from placeholders in destination documents, making them independently editable.
Return to your destination document and edit the connection as needed. Observe that these destination link placeholders can now be connected independently.
To modify placeholder connections from a single source:
- Go to the document with the source link that introduced this “secondary connection.”
- Open the Content placeholders panel on the right side.
- Locate the connection, expand the dropdown menu, and select Edit connection.
- Modify your connection as desired.
- Make a change to the link which is sharing this placeholder connection and Publish.
Publishing this link is required to share placeholder connection updates with destination documents.
Return to your destination and observe the connection should have been updated. You may need to resolve any placeholder mapping issues this update introduced.