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March 30, 2010
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disappearing suggested or example text, like for a form, in Editor? DCF controlled, I think?

  • March 30, 2010
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I can't remember what this is called. A better strategy than using XML
Comments for providing guidance to authors completing forms-like entries.
Was it all a dream?

Given my record in recent posts, I'm sure I will remember twixt the click
and send.

--
Paul Nagai

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    bibach1-Visitor
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    March 30, 2010
    Hey, Paul...

    Perhaps you're thinking of the "template text" that can be wrapped in
    " and " PIs so that Editor will
    remove it when the user enters the real data. I think this could be
    provided by creating an appropriate
    ContextTransformations/InsertAutoWithin section in the DCF.

    -Brandon 🙂


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    ptc-30501501-Visitor
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    March 30, 2010
    Bah, that sounds like fun - wish I could spend more time playing in your sandbox!

    I just use the editor-only FOSI tag to stick in some ever-present gentext...

    John T. Jarrett CDT
    Sr. Tech Writer, Tech Pubs, ILS,Land & Armaments/Global Tactical Systems

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    BAE Systems, 5000 I-10 West, Sealy, Texas USA 77474
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    naglists1-VisitorAuthor
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    March 31, 2010
    I don't remember seeing the PI tags and I thought the text was formatted
    differently somehow ... gray maybe? ... and I remember thinking the text
    wouldn't print. Probably all of those things could be customized to be true
    with the template PI, but I remember thinking it was an out of the box
    feature. Maybe I just "hoped" for more than was actually there. Maybe it
    *was* all a dream.

    But thanks, Brandon. I'll pass it on to the people I was looking for this
    for and maybe it'll work for them.


    On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Brandon Ibach <
    brandon.ibach@single-sourcing.com> wrote:

    > Hey, Paul...
    >
    > Perhaps you're thinking of the "template text" that can be wrapped in
    > " and " PIs so that Editor will
    > remove it when the user enters the real data. I think this could be
    > provided by creating an appropriate
    > ContextTransformations/InsertAutoWithin section in the DCF.
    >
    > -Brandon 🙂
    >
    >
    >
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