Arbortext

Can Arbortext Editor version 5.0B be used on Windows 7? Right now I am using it on XP. Thanks.

Is it possible to re-order Layer in macro, let see than exemple, i created 3 new layer automaticaly generated in a small macro, but it turn my layer Standard in fourth position. I would like to bring it back in first possition. Macro color fill layer# recorded with Arbortext IsoDraw 7.1 Add layer 'Light Blue' 204 255 255 Add layer 'Light Yellow' 255 255 204 Add layer 'Light Grey' 204 204 204End Macro

Hello adepters,I want to understand how graphics drag and drop support is done in Editor.If I drag a graphic from the filesystem and put it into my XML session, the (with at least some help from the dcf file, I assume), interprets this as a graphic and then inserts the graphic element with an href to my local file system path of the graphic (from where I dragged it from). This works great.I want to understand how this works as I have a requirement to drag an object from my proprietary java application and have it work in the same way. I've taken an initial look in some documentation but mostly find information such as how to insert graphics via menu options in Epic. I tried a couple of easy mocks, such as copying the object in Windows and pasting in a valid place in Epic, and also copying the path of the graphic and pasting in a valid location, to no avail. The only thing that works is a straight drag and drop from Windows to Epic. Can anyone point me in the right direction?Thanks!Kris

I have been working with the preference files in order to have the linestyles and text styles set when a user opens Isodraw. I would like to set up layers also, but I do not see a section where that can be accomplished.Has anyone created layers in the preference files? If so could you please share with me that portion of your ".PRF" file or point me in the correct direction where to look?Thanks for any and all help.Keith Howard

Adepters and Adeptites,I haven't been able to find anything about this in Help.Can somebody tell me how "Save as SGML" works in Arbortext Editor or point to some documentation that does? I have temporarily lost access to the Programmers Reference Guide so I can't look there, if there is anything there.I can get it to work with the axdocbook demo.xml file and it works pretty well. Other XML files have the menu item grayed out. I presume that the target SGML DTD/doctype is defined somewhere, but I can't find out where.The menu.cf file shows the command for the Save as SGML menu selection to be "FileSaveAsSGML" with a qualifier of "!doc_dtd_not_defined()".I presume that the target SGML DTD is defined somewhere, but again I don't know where.If all this is in the Programmer's Reference Guide then that is enough of an answer.I know that asking to "Save as SGML" today is like asking for a way to make my polio vaccine ineffective or something, but we need to be able to do this somehow.Thanks f

After using Arbortext and its predecessors on the Unix platform for the last 18+ years, we are switching to the Windows platform now that Unix will no longer be supported. I wondered if anyone else has made this transition and could offer some advice? We have a lot of customizations and I'm curious about how much work I should expect to make this transition. I would like to keep the changes to the interface and functionality to a minimum so as to not alarm our users. Any advice that anyone can offer would be very much appreciated.Regards,Rick

Hello everybody, masters and amateurs 😃Ok, so I've been working with tablecontrols in XUI, however I haven't found relevant information about their management quite easily, my current problem now is related with delete or update one element in a Table, let's say that I have the following tablecontrol:<tablecontrol columns="2" fontweight="bold" foregroundcolor="#85002A"<br"/>gridlines="false" height="200" id="table_results" resize="width"><header id="encabezado"><column id="topic" label="Topic"/"><column id="value" label="Percentage"/"></header></tablecontrol>And that i need to insert some values and then delete them, my current process in order to insert elements in the table is the following:dlgitem_insert_list_at($main::ENV['WALKING_WINDOW'],'table_results',1,"value");dlgitem_set_table_cell_at($main::ENV['WALKING_WINDOW'],'table_results',1,1,"Task");dlgitem_set_table_cell_at($main::ENV['WALKING_WINDOW'],'table_results',1,2,"20%");dlgitem

Has anyone figured out how to do this?If you haven't seen it yet, in m090 (not sure when it started, I'mupgrading from m010 to m090), there is some dynamic content provided at thetop of the view frame (below the toolbar) ... *every* view frame ... thattheoretically allows you access the eLearning and Knowledge Base content onthe PTC website.What this means is that the content you are looking for, seeking help for,is pushed lower in the frame, perhaps off the page forcing a scroll.Further, it indicates that "your administrator" installed it. Which wouldbe me. Hey, waitaminute!? I did? I don't remember choosing to do so. MaybeI did. Can I take it back?Somewhat contradicting the statement that your administrator isresponsible, Arbortext Documentation Changes states that it is "Brought toyou by PTC University." Sigh.-- Paul Nagai

Is there a way to use a tiv out of its scope? I tried to do a LEP for the entire document by using the Chapter LEPs, which uses a tiv scoped to chapter. Even if I save the tiv to a tdv, it still gets flagged as out of scope. I was wondering if there was a way to save a tiv (or "freeze" the contents) to another variable so the scope would be irrelevant. If I delete the scope, the chapter LEPs don't work correctly, and I haven't figured out how to force a reset on the tiv.

I'm currently working a problem with the IsoView plugin installed within Airbus' ADOC program. Even though I totally uninstalled and reinstalled ADOC, I'm still getting this error message whenver I attempt to view a tally sheet within the program:   "Can not find or start IsoView Server. Error -16". ADOC then locks up, and I have to shut it down.   Can anyone give me some insight into the significance of "Error -16"? ADOC is installed on Windows XP SP3 using Internet Explorer 8.

The M040 maintenance release of APP Version 11 was recently made public. This release provides the usual bug fixes and also some new functionality which will be of interest to APP users and Styler users (as APP is the default print composition engine).The key things are:PDF notesThis is provided as a technology preview. Here, you get the ability to create PDFs with annotations (sticky notes) which can be populated with content extracted from your XML (inlcuding comments if you're smart). When you create the PDF note, you get to specify the title, the author, the content, the colour of the note and the icon used. Currently the icon is one of seven which are predeifined, but I'd be interested to hear if you want more. What I like about this feature is that it allows you to add information to a PDF, such as asking a reviewer a question or including deleted content, without changing the formatting of the page by adding extra content inline.PDF layersThis is another technology preview which

Hi!This might be a stupid and simple question, but I can't seem to find the answer to it by myself. I want to insert "SUPERSEDED BY" in the IPL, but the program doesn't give me the option when I place the cursor behind the element where I want to place the markup, it doesn't give me the option to mark as supersede. I have tried behind several places in the idemdata, where I suppose that I should place it.I would really appreciate some help on this question. If somebody has a good advice on where to find answers to questions like this one in the future, I would be grateful as well.Thanks in advance!Monica

Oh, wait again...this wasn't via Adepters...never mind...duh...

Or maybe it's just me because I'm always telling folks to join Adepters!LOL!But check the top of my latest reply:

Ok guys, this one is just wierd.I am using Arbortext 5.4M70. I am using DTD's and FOSI. I have a document that will not display the opening Subpara1 element tag. To be more precise it won't show any open tags until you select an element, any element and do a generate update. Then all tags appear as expected, Except the Subpara1 tag.On my preferences, I have full tags and keep tags balanced selected. Any ideas?Sindy

Hello,I have developped a customization in ACL language for Arbortext Editor. Is it possible to protect the startup of my customization with a license key based on the MAC address of the Computer?RegardsDavid G

Hi All, Can anyone help me to solve the below questions as I am very new to Isodraw and Macro language. Thanks in advance. Scope: I have hell of .iges files and need to explode the assemblies,illustrate them in Isodraw 7.3 or Isodraw 6.1 and save them as as .cgm and .JPEG formats. Question 1: Whn I open .iges files(Created from catiaV5 i guess) and select single bolt for example, all the bolts in the model are getting selected and getting exploded at a time but i need to select individually as they are grouped in original catia file.Is there any option to select them individually and then explode.Please help. Question 2: When i record a macro, where these macros will get stored in Computer for Windows XP Service pack2. Can anyone send me macro to export all the .iso files to .cgm and .jpeg at a time.Please send me macro for Isodraw 6.1 or Isodraw 7.3 or Isodraw 7.0 Cad process. And also how to edit the macro if in need to change anything.

Is it possible to use a different stylesheet when generating a PDF for PDMlink vs. generating the PDF from other sources?

Hello everyone!!Today I'm facing a new problem, I was trying to open a document in Arbortext and it shows me an Alert/Error message, it says: "editor.exe: segment violation(signal 11)" Then, when I click the OK button, Arbortext closes. Does anybody know what does this mean?!As always I really appreciate your help and support.Regards!Paulette Zorrilla

Is there a release of SDL Author Assistant that works with Arbortext Editor 6.0?

Hello, I have a large group of version 3 CGM files that need to be converted to version 4 CGM. I have drawing size settings in Isodraw that need to be maintained in the conversion. Does anyone have a batch process or macro that will run in Isodraw to accomplish this? I’m not versed in creating macros or writing code. Thanks in advance for any help!

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I am trying to make a connection to Arbortext Content Manager from Arbortext Editor. I have modified the siteprefs.xml and the userprefs.xml to reflect my server url and name and have put them both in the adapters folder in Arbortext Editor. When Editor is started and you go to click on Object to connect a PTC server we get an error that says java.lang.NullPointerException which does not tell me anything. Can someone please give some advice or some help please?

Hello everybody!! 😃Ok, so I've been finding too many discussions talking about XPath and I feel pretty bad because I can not have a clear idea of what XPath is? 😞 I investigated in the Arbortext Command Language Reference but I only found examples and I would like to understand how and where is recommended to use XPath, please if anybody is kind of expert in this area I would really appreciate a lot your help! I'm feel in the necessity to learn about XPath but I don't have any idea from where I can start. Please any help would be greatly appreciated.As always I have not words to thank you all your time and support. Best Regards!Paulette Zorrilla.

Im trying to link my Warnings to a specific section of a DM, (Procedural DM Issue 4.0) But I cant find the target field?? Does anyone know where the "Ref DM Target" attribute field is? Or basically how do you designate a "target" (link to a particular place or ID in a Data Module) in Arbortext Editor (Issue 4.0)??? In previous versions (3 and below) you could hit CTRL D/modify attributes and the Target attribute is available in that window.....But that is no longer the case. I can't find it in Issue 4.0?? I think they may have changed the tag name, (like everything else) but if so it is not obvious and Im not sure where it is...Can anyone help