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How do I create a macro for IsoDraw CadProcess 7.2 to be able to edit the object id of the assembly group and then copy that over to the object name so that both the object id and object name are the same? Also I need to truncate the object id and name to only show the characters to the right of the hyphen.

Is there a simple way to capture the title from the StylesheetID processing instruction from the FOSI? I foundstylesheet_get_list_doc(labels[], paths[], is_styler[], use[, maxlabelchars

Given the recent disclosure that PTC will no longer be selling new licenses of Print Composer, I asked one of our PTC/Arbortext account guys about this, and was told that the replacement for Print Composer is supposed to be Styler. Supposedly, Styler can use FOSI. My question about this is, can Styler use the same FOSI instance that Print Composer uses, or does the FOSI need to be converted to something else or modified in some other way? (We do not wish to do this.)Anybody know anything about this?

I have been banging my head on this for a couple of hours now, and I can't help but feel like I'm missing something obvious.In publishing a complete manual, I am trying to publish several chapters, each with their own TOC. I am trying to format the footer in the TOC to read "Page # of X", where X is the total page count for the TOC.Due to other variables in the footer, I have this built as a pseudoelement, called from the page layout set.What I'm getting is that I'm getting the last value for my TIV at the end of the manual, so all my TOCs display the page count for the last chapter TOC for ALL chapters. I tried scoping the TIV to the TOC element, which just causes the value to disappear altogether, so I end up with "Page 1 of"Does anyone have any ideas off the top of their head? Does using the value for the TIV in a pseudoelement for the footer cause this to not resolve correctly?Jason A. BussSr. Engineering Procedures AnalystTechnical PublicationsTextron Aviation316.517.7749 PHONEjab

Is anyone using Arbortext to convert XML to JSON?-- Paul Nagai

Hi, I have downloaded the trial version of PTC Arbortext Editor with Styler. The program ask me for the (trial) license key. I tried to obtain the trial license using the PTC website, but the procedure fails: PTC website said me that the HOST ID of my PC is not valid. My hostID begins with "90-1b". How can I solve this problem?I sent an email to - but I've not received a reply.

Relevant to Arbortext 5.3I ran into a problem with the CSDB. I was making text edits to a DM in Arbortext Editor and printing to PDF to see the result when it suddenly threw an error back at me saying the document is invalid and wouldn't print to PDF. Now I would have thought the Editor/CSDB was supposed to make sure the DM was valid. In this state, not printing, the document validated successfully using the Green Checkmark and when saved to the CSDB, however as I have discovered it apparently can lose any association with graphics. Here’s what happened, I was attempting to print a PDF from the menu bar when this error came back, I had already printed to PDF not 5 minutes previously so this was a total surprise, I was not making changes to markup: [A30171] com_call: Exception thrown by method PDF. Source is "System.Xml". Description is "Invalid XML document, The document does not have a root element.." The first thing I did was validate the DM with the Green Checkmark, the Data Module

<h3>I've been having some problems with the oid_modify_attr() acl command, I readed th acl reference and I was using the commando without any problem, however I suddenly note something strange; I saw that arbortext changes the attribute of my sections in my opened Document only when I modify the content of the section, more specifically when I remove the section, make some changes in its content and then I re-insert the modified section into my document again, only in those cases the editor makes the change of the seciton's attribute; I'm needing to change the attribute in other escenarios because I want to navigate through the sections of my docbooks and I would like to assign an attribute to every section which works as a flag to understand if my section was visited, modified or if the section is the last section where the user is situated at the time he decides to close the document maybe for restart the navigation later.Again I appreciate your time and the information you kin

We've got a macro for drawing our most commonly used nuts, bolts and screws automatically, but it needs a toolbar with a minimum of 18 icons, most of them just to select options - see the image.It works like this:Choose the options for screw head, nut, washer, length and whether to draw fitted or explodedChoose what fixings to draw with one of the last 4 iconsSelect a hole on the illustration and a point for directionMacro draws fixings in the right orientation and scale, with thick/thin changing to medium/thin or all thin and threads being removed depending on how small the fixings areThe limitations:There's no indication of what options have been selected - you have to rememberAll the options have to be displayed all the time, making more clutter on the screenWhen we add more fixing types, it will just add more iconsThe macro can't prompt the user what to do next - unless we accept the user has to click the screen to remove the promptThings that could make it better:If the toolbars c

I need some help here gang. I have a few hundred AutoCAD wiring diagrams that I need to convert to CGMs. I am trying to run a batch process to open and export to CGMs and it will do this. The problem I am having that the AutoCAD drawings have multiple layout tabs, I want to open the file in the "Model" tab and export that to the CGM. The macro I have created is opening the "Layout 1" tab and this is not the giving me the whole diagram.Any help would be greatly appreciated.Keith Howard

Has anyone been able to run IsoDraw 7.1 on a Windows 8 OS yet? Just checking before I hit the 'go' button here.Thanks all.Rob

Hi, I use Arbortext Editor 6.0. Off and on my editor stops selecting entire elements and I am wondering if anyone knows of a shortcut to get it to Select Element again? I have to restart the editor when it happens, but in the earlier version (Epic) I had a short cut for when it happened - I expect it is a bug of sorts.To specify, it is when I want to select an element with Shift and down or right arrows. It stops and wil only select one charachter at a time. I can choose it from the menu though, but I need the editor to get the settings right.Any suggestions will be appreciated. Maybe a way to make my own shortcut via the command line?

Hi,Is there perhaps a way to convert a couple of hundred MS Word documents to Arbortext XML. I know that you can develop a map template using import/export, but that isn't a viable option since there is a time constraint on the project and the documents are not necessarily similar in terms of formatting/styling. I'm hoping there is some sort of script that can be run to convert the documents. The ideal situation would be to convert to (specifically) DITA, but if I could just get the content into non-DTD specific XML (without having to copy and paste) that would still be great.So, ideally a mass-conversion to DITA, but even just automatically getting it into XML for future manipulation would be a good result. Any ideas would be much appreciated!Thanks

Dear Adepters,I've got a puzzle related to page-number links in indexes built in Arbortext Editor (AE 6.1 M020, but it also appears in 6.0 and probably earlier versions too)I built my FOSI indexing code using help 6099, "Example 2: Titles - Complex Page Numbering."When I publish a doc via Print Composer (or Publish --> PDF File...) the "div" part in compound page numbers is not hot linked in indexes, but the "folio" part is. The div part (along with the folio part) IS hot linked In TOC and LOI entries, also built via AE help.Below is a piece of the index markup (used for debugging) generated via <usetext source="index.app" userule="1"></usetext>. Both div and folio parts of the page number are inside the <ixpgstr> element.<ixpt>AVIATION FACILITY SHIP</ixpt><ixpgstr>8-6</ixpgstr><ixpgkey>392</ixpgkey><ixpt>FORMATION FLYING</ixpt><ixpgstr>9-1</ixpgstr><ixpgkey>395</ixpgkey><ixpt>INTERNAL TR

I have this code, that work well : SubMacro checkColors Protected Define i As Integer Define ColorName As String Define Pattern As String For i = 1 to activeDoc.colorCount ColorName = activeDoc.colors[i].name Pattern = Mid(ColorName, Find(ColorName, "(", 1) + 1, 3) If (Pattern <> "co=") Then Select None Select If Color Is Equal To ColorName If (activeDoc.selectedElements = 0) Then Else Return ColorName End If End If End For Return "COLORS_OK" End SubMacro but if I replace the red colored code by this : If (activeDoc.selectedElements <> 0) Then Return ColorName End If It no works more.Is it possible to know why ? for me that make no sense.Thank you for any help.

Dear all,I using the FOSI and the APP source edit for the box, but when the box across pages, we lost 2 line, can I add it in the source edit? thanks!the APP source:the example is:var fish = formatting.fish[ template.stylerFish ];var block = arguments[0];var paragraph = block.defaultParagraph;var style = block.defaultStyle;var contextProp = arguments[1];//Create a rule to apply to the block//Rule is 2pt thick, solid, red and applied to all sides of the blockvar rule = new fRule;rule.sides = fRule.SIDE_BOX;rule.thickness = "2pt";rule.lineColor = "red";rule.lineStyle = fRuleLine.LINE_SOLID;//Apply the rule to the blockblock.rules.addRule(rule);//Add some padding to the block to provide some space between the rule and the contentblock.paddingTop = block.paddingBottom = block.paddingLeft = block.paddingRight = "3pt";and the "box" also can get the border:var block = arguments[0];var paragraph = block.defaultParagraph;var style = block.defaultStyle;//Apply a -2.999pt rule to the block to off

Is there a non-ACL method for formatting gentext with text folded to all lower-case? I've found the counter specifier [AL], but that seems to only apply to generated counters. There is highlt, but that only allows for all caps. You can force an e-i-c to small-caps, but not lower-case. I'd rather not write an acl function to use lowercase() on the gentext savetext.Regards,Steve CuznerProduct and Web Help Group

Does anyone know how to collapse all file references quickly when using a document containing a bunch of xincludes to reference other docs, but allow the file name to display?Normally I use entities, but AE 6.0M060 crashes when the parent document is open and a child is edited. Later iterations of 6.0 have the same problem. Work around is using xincludes but all children are expanded when the parent is opened, making a really long document to scroll through.

Dear all, There are 2 questions about the text around fig, and the location for the fig title. Could you give me any tips please? Thanks!1. Can we implement the "L" paragraph text around the fig (the fig have title.) ? for example:2. For the <fig> element, how can I chage the <title> under the <image>? I think we need update the DTD, but can you give a simple example for the steps? Thank you very much!Your assistance will be highly appreciated in this regard. Thanking youLorin

Dear all,How to set up the paragraph inside borders?Nearly every paragraphs, and each paragraph may have many different images...for example:the only method I think is add a table...but when you add a table, maybe there are many restriction for the edit and the style control.Your assistance will be highly appreciated in this regard.Thanking youLorin

Found this threadhttp://communities.ptc.com/thread/5508Looking for information on either or senario.Bryon

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Ok, so I'm needing to request a Flex license for one of our PE installations (testing 6.1 from 5.4).Does the PE server license need to be node-locked or floating? Reading through the knowledge base, I am not getting a definitive "this/not this" feel for what I need to use.Also, when requesting the Flex license, does the PTC Host ID/Host Name need to be the ID and name of the license server, or the server PE is installed on?Jason A. BussSr. Engineering Procedures AnalystTechnical PublicationsTextron Aviation316.517.7749 PHONEjabuss@txtav.com[cid:image001.png@01CFFDBC.5029CF30]

How do I search for an note tag in a smatep tag?Bryon

This might be a basic question... but how do you open a document object in the active window (open it in Arbortext).I'm making a call to a REST server requesting an XML file and I'm trying to get it to open in Arbortext. Code I have so far with the REST request being successful:var curDoc = Application.openDocument("http://user:password@myRESTrequestserver);curDoc.open();