by setting an xmarker as the parent of a reference, and both the x marker and reference are disabled, can I enable all the references with the x marker as a parent by just enabling the x marker?

for example:
chair one
chair two
table one
picture one

all of these objects have Xmarker set as their parent reference.

If I enable Xmarker through a script, will all the objects enable too?

Thanks for all the help.

Precisely, and the children refs don't even need their "Initially Disabled" flags checked to not initially render provided the parent does.

cool. That's really useful.