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I'm building a report via Report Management. For my results I only want the most up-to-date document and display it version and iteration. Right now the way my query works is that I get the latest versions with it's latest iteration. Example: document.xml A.11 and B3. I just want B.3. Make sense?In my Query Builder I have:Document.Version (versionDisplayIdentifier)Document.Latest IterationI searched through discussion but couldn't find the answer. It was mostly sql queries (or something like that).Your help is appreciated Thank you, Darquise.

Hi guys,we have problems with the output window of the completeness check in the newest version of Arbortext Editor 6.1 M020.If anything was not valid then the Editor 5.4 showed following window:As you can see there was possible to click on the errors to jump directly to the error.In the Editor 6.1 we get following output with the same xml file:These informations are not helpful and we cannot jump to the error. In our opinion is this completeness check in the newer version very disappointing.Maybe we do anything wrong. Anybody an idea how to get the old output? We hope you can help us.

Hi all,This feels like a Friday question. Is it Friday yet somewhere?Authors have asked for feedback in the Edit Window whether or not a tablerow has anything but a defaul break status. I have put together a few smallbits of code (embedded below) that do this. Sort of. For some reason thedetection/display is sort of "delayed" by one cell/column, wrapping when itreaches the end of a row so there is feedback in the first cell of thefirst row following the actual row where there is a break_penalty set.If a row has break_penalty set to force, I expect this to display asgentext in each cell of that row: table break: forceInstead, that displays in cells in columns 2 through n, where n is thenumber of columns in the table, AND the following displays in the firstcell of the first row following: table break:So, interesting, right?Using the following series of commands (copy/pasted to the command line allas one line of text), Editor will correctly report the break_penalty statusof each row. (You

I have noticed some differences in formatting between what we used to get with Editor 5.2 and what we get now with Editor 6.0 M040.Given the following structure: <c></c> :In Editor 5.2 our e-i-c for element <c> used to read "<e-i-c gi="C" context="A">Now, in Editor 6.0 M040 it has to read : <e-i-c gi="C" context="*" a"=">. Otherwise, it won't fire.I presume this is a difference in the formatter interpreting the FOSI from version 5.2 to version 6.0.Has anyone else noticed this?

FOSI has ways of detecting empty elements, as described in the attached PDF file from my book. It occurs to me now that a FOSI could write an external ASCII file (.exp file) with information about empty elements. For example:.exp filechapter 2 title on preview page 12 has no contentchapter 5 title onpreviewpage 33 has no contentWith this information, you could go to the Preview page and use Synchronize Editor Position to locate the empty element in the Edit window. The following code outputs "EMPTY TITLE" to make it easy to spot..fos fragment<e-i-c gi="title" context="chapter"><charlist inherit="1" charsubsetref="title" allcaps"="><savetext textid="chapter-title.txt" conrule="#CONTENT"><usetext source="chapterct.txt,\." \"="></usetext><usetext source="<empty.yn">,</empty.yn>"></usetext>..<e-i-c gi="empty.yn"><charlist inherit="1"></charlist><att><specval attname="chapter-title.txt" at

Hey folks got a question that I can't find a good answer for in the EpicHelp or Help Center. Preparing to pass what may be the last (and may never be released) versionof MIL-HDBK-2361 to the Army. We are giving them the schema, XML, graphics,and a FOSI. My boss and I are having a discussion as to whether or not Epic with thePrint Composer requires Adobe Acrobat to generate PDF or if Epic's PrintComposer has an embedded PDF generator. I thought once that I had to installAcrobat to get PDF and I no longer have Epic on a machine that does not alsohave Acrobat so I cannot test who is right. So does anyone know if one is using Epic with the Print Composer installedand selects File | Publish u PDF file Epic will produce PDF without Acrobator will the choice be greyed out? This is kind of a toughie as PTC does not seem to like selling its printcomposer license so I'm sure not how many can verify this.Many thanksLynn

As I slowly start thinking about 'retiring' (and I'll think VERY SLOWLY onthat), I think I'll pass on some of the little scripts I've put togetherover the years. This one I did a couple of months ago before I delivered a large (1,400page) document. It will go through and tell you if there are any elementsthat normally would have content but are empty. There are two functions inthis package. One will allow you to select a specific element to see ifthere are any empty tags, the other will check all the elements in thedocument. I documented the first function and only those changes in the secondfunction that differ from the first. How I chose to implement this is shown after the script. package empty_elements;function empty_element(){};function empty_element1(){};function empty_element(){o=oid_first(); #sets the 'o' variable to the first oid in the filecl=oid_caret() #identifies the current location of the cursor in thedocumentcount=0; #This will count the number of elements that are empt

Is there a way to set how many characters are left in a row. I have found in the help center widow-control but it does not say much. There must be setting that controls this.Bryon

There are more, but are so specific as not to be useful or so close to oneI've already shared as to be redundant. Hope you enjoy them! Would love tosee other people's stuff like that.-- Paul Nagai

This was to make a field index that sorted on the document order of anarticle. The sort key was complex, it was actually built up of Section Division ArticleWhere some sections did not have Divisions, the articles were directly inthe Section. In other cases, the Articles were inside of Divisions insideof Sections, so the ultimate sort-key was: SSSS.DDDD.AAAAA "real" one would probably look like: 0002.0004.0012Or, Section 2, Division 4, Article 12.Anyhow, this is the bit that padded the article number. Next comes the FOSIfragment calling this function. Finally, the FOSI fragment where the entrywas added to the index.function get_article_num_sort_key(win, oid) { return reverse(substr(reverse('0000' .oid_xpath_string($oid,'count(preceding-sibling::article)')),1,4));}<att><fillval attname="my_fosi::get_article_num_sort_key" attloc="system-func"<br"/>fillcat="savetext" fillchar="conrule"><charsubset><savetext textid="article_num-sortkey.txt"></charsubset

Sometimes you want to do one thing if an element is empty and another if itis not. Here are a couple of tests of empty we have used. I'm not sure ifboth are still in use in different places, they may be. One looks for andignores XML comments and our <remarks> tags which have no output other thanon-screen.function is_element_empty(win, oid) { empty = 'yes'; children = oid_children($oid); for (i = 1; i <= $children; i++) { if (oid_name(oid_child($oid,$i)) != 'remarks' &&oid_name(oid_child($oid,$i)) != '_comment') { empty = 'no'; } } return $empty}<e-i-c gi="svalue" context="product_name"><charlist inherit="1"><savetext textid="product_name-value.txt" conrule="\\"></charlist><att><charsubset><suppress sup="1"></charsubset></att><att><specval attname="my_fosi::is_element_empty" attloc="system-func"<br"/>attval="no"><charsubset><savetext textid="product_name-value.txt" conrule="#CONTENT"&gt

I do not honestly fully remember why we need this / how it works. Theuse-case has to do with an element with two parts each of which are alwaysoutput on facing pages ... verso then recto. (Not sure if that'stechnically a "spread" or not, but you get the idea.) Something like adiagram on verso and a parts list on recto. (We don't do parts lists, butthat's a classic example, I think.)Anyhow, we need to one thing if another element follow vs. if we are thelast element in a chapter, say. So we test nextsib() and if = "self" thenwe do one thing. If it is null or a section or something, we do somethingdifferent. Trailing blank footer text? Like I said ... can't rememberexactly.function nextsib(win,oid) { return oid_name(oid_next($oid));}function previoussib(win,oid) { return oid_name(oid_prev($oid));}<att><specval attname="my_fosi::nextsib" attloc="system-func"<br"/>attval="#EQ#\my_description\"><fillval attname="my_fosi::nextsib" attloc="system-func" fillcat="savete

We no longer use this specific test anymore (we stopped supporting A4 so wealways know we're US Letter), but we used this in conjunction withprofiling to determine which page format to use.I have always wanted a way to test the composition requests' profilingdirectly from the stylesheet. It's not possible or at least it is far fromeasy. What we do now is modify the DTD to permit things like:<us_letter region="US"/">where "region" is a profiling attribute. Now the following let's us do thisfor US and that for A4.We still use the same DTD/profiling trick against: <version_1 release="version_1"/"> <version_2 release="version_2"/"> <version_3 release="version_3"/">and other similar values. That said, because we modified the DTD andcurrently constructed the document using "profiling elements" we don't needto use a system-func for this anymore.ANYhow, you can test for the presence of an element using:function us_letter_exists(win,oid) { local exists = "no"; if (oid_xp

function in_touchup(win,oid) { local exists = "no"; for (oid = oid_parent(oid); oid_valid(oid); oid = oid_parent(oid)) { if (oid_name(oid) == "_touchup") { exists = "yes"; } }# This stopped working at some upgrade somewhen. PIs got moreinvisible.# if (oid_xpath_boolean($oid,'ancestor::_touchup')) {# exists = "yes";# } return exists;}Screen FOSI (in print, we use change bars for the "outer" _touchup, andyellow background for the inner _touchup):<att><specval attname="my_fosi::in_touchup" attloc="system-func" attval="no"><charsubset><highlt fontclr="violet"></charsubset></att><att><specval attname="my_fosi::in_touchup" attloc="system-func" attval="yes"><charsubset><highlt bckclr="FFFF00" fontclr="black"></charsubset></att><att>-- Paul Nagai

Sorry David,I just passed on what I was told by Arbortext tech support. I had a case about a PDF problem and they wanted me to try PDF Direct instead of Acrobat. When I couldn't make it work, the tech delved into what I had licensed. He told me that PDF Direct was only built into Styler and I would need to buy a Styler license (or a PE server) to use it.I thought I was passing a fact, but now it sounds like something changed since the PDF case was worked (by the way, my case was caused by some missing registry entries for Acrobat).I guarantee that if I remove acrobat distiller that the Compose-->PDF selection will be greyed out even though I have a print composer license installed. On June 12th 2014, the company issued a new laptop for me, but didn't transfer the Acrobat software from the old one and I couldn't composer PDFs. It may be because I use version 5.3m040, but the Arbortext tech didn't mention versions as a factor; just whether there was a Styler (or server) license or not

Webtop is migrated from 6.7 sp1 to webtop 6.7 sp2.Arbortext version used is 6.0 M020 in both.In webtop 6.7 sp1,opened a xml document in Arbortext Editor.Connected to Documentum via AE and could insert components.Whereas in 6.7 sp2,even after connecting to Documentum through AE,while hitting enter to insert a component,it is asking for the documentum connection again.Why it is asking for the connection again,when it is already connected.What is the solution to this behaviour?

Hello,There seems to be a problem with the document map window when inserting an element using the Quicktag menu.Using just the sample 28001C.sgm document from the Arbortext distribution with the following snippet of structure:<para0><title>Definition of terms</title><subpara1 id="attname.def"><title>Attribute name</title><para>Thename of an attribute as assigned in the attribute definition listdeclaration of a DTD.</para></subpara1><subpara1 id="border.def"><title>Border</title><para>Graphic thatappears along page boundaries. </para></subpara1><subpara1 id="charfill.def"><title>Character fill</title><para>Therepeated use of a character (possibly the space character), or stringof characters, to occupy space within running text, for example, leaderdots.</para></subpara1></para0> In the Docmap, if I right click after the last </subpara1> before </pa

I ask because this configuration is not officially supported by PTC. Just wondering if anyone has done it and if you had any trouble since that is the configuration we are wanting to run this year before we transition to 6.1 next year.

Hello,I'm new to PTC, though I've worked as a content management professional on similar platforms. For a customer requirement I need to activate a feature on Arbortext editor.Here is my question:How can I upload Arbortext outputs that are authored from an ootb dita template as "Dynamic Document" to windchill server? I need this functions for reusable/ referable manners of Arbortext Editor. Can you show me the simpliest/ basic way to activate this feature?I use Arbortext 6.1 M20 and Winchill 10.2 M20.Thanks,Andaç

I have an XSLT script which will convert our XML into a PE ready version. It converts into a ​, which has, in the past/for years, allowed the composition to honor that to be the preferred word breaking point. At some point this stopped working, however, but I'm not sure when.Is this the preferred method to get discretionary hyphens to output using PE?<xsl:template match="processing-instruction('Pub')[.='_hyphen-point']"> <xsl:text>​</xsl:text></xsl:template>Kristian Van TassellLMD ToolsSiemens Industry SectorSiemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.5939 Rice Creek ParkwayShoreview, MN 55126 United StatesTel. :+1 (651) 855-6194Fax :+1 (651) 855-6280- <-%20>www.siemens.com/plm

Thanks, Ed. We are using the FOSI. I've attached the code for the chapter. This is the code that is working fine in 5.4 but not in 6.1.

After I drag the CP folder into the Arbortext Editor application folder, I see the "Change" Menu as well as Change Page Help menus in Arbortext. However when I go to "create basic document" in the Change menu I receive an error message. Do I need to run a license manager? Do I drag some license info somewhere?

Did anyone have an issue with PDF Bookmarks being truncated? It seems to max out around 63 characters or so. (FOSI, AE version 5.4)

HEADS UP! Mail Headers have been changed! I do not think they are back tothe way they were before (but I could be wrong). I replied to Caroline'semail yesterday, but did not pay attention to the headers and accidentallysent the reply JUST to her.Now the default reply-to is the sender, not the list. Frankly, I prefer thereply-to, on mailing lists, to be to the list, although I do like to beable to discern and reply-to the original sender only/instead becausesometimes should just be off-list. By defaulting to reply-to originalsender, we are going to see a lot of helpful information not shared withthe group until we all remember to change the reply-to to be to or at leastinclude the list.So, if you get a reply off-list that would benefit the group (immediatelyor in the future), take the time to reply-to the entire list (unless youthink maybe the sender intended it to be private) sharing helpfulinformation.On the other hand, we are less likely to see the accidental note to thelist that a r

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