Arbortext

I need help eliminating orphans in indexes. I'm a new user, so I don't have enough experience with Styler to modify a stylesheet that was prepared for us by a third-party vendor. Is there a way to associate indented text blocks so they travel together across columns and pages without leaving large gaps? Example below:

We have a XUI dialog window which contains numerous textbox fields. On this same dialog, we have a button which when clicked, needs to insert a predefined text string at the cursor location in the textbox that had focus when the button was clicked. Note that the cursor may not be at the start of the value in the textbox. For example, the textbox may contain "Bob did this" and the cussor may be located right after the word "Bob".The dialog I am referring to is a XUI dialog that is launched from a custom Java/AOM Arbortext application extension. The button event handler logic that gets called is as shown below: System.out.println("About to insert TESTSTRING") ADocument doc = (ADocument)xuiDoc; ARange insertSpot = (ARange)doc.getInsertionPoint(); insertSpot.insertParsedString("TESTSTRING");When the dialog is displayed and I place the cursor in between two words in a textbox and click the button described above, I get the sysout message shown above but the text string is not inserted at th

Hi,I'm wondering if there is any way to use XHTML tables in my documents, but limiting what can be used, so I will only have <table>, <td>, <tr>, and a couple of attributes.Actually what I need is the editor to recognize my model of tables (a very simple one based on xhtml) as table and therefore to be able to use the table tool of the editor to create and modify them.If I just simplifyxhtml-tbl.dtd in the entities folder, the editor doesn't recognize anymore my model as a table.I have also tried to modify the dcf file, but besides telling the editor what model to use (CALS or html), I can't see how to take advantage of it...Any suggestions?_____________________________Gabriel Oreggioni

Hi all,I'm trying to install and configure the Flexera licensing server to deliverfloating Print Composer licenses. (We used fixed licenses for Editor.) I amworking with support. But we seem to be going around in circles a bit. Hasanyone had to work through firewall and McAfee or other safety-ware issues?From what we can tell, the server is installed properly and all of thenecessary firewall rules server-side, were created by the install.The client is not able, however, to reach the server (no log entries everacknowledge requests/denials).I have created Inbound and Outbound Firewall rules that permit TCP to/from7788 in Domain and Private (but not Public) matching the entries created onthe server.I can telnet from my laptop to the server port 7788. I can't do anythinguseful, of course, but the connection appears to be accepted (it does nottimeout as it does if I use port 7789).I have set PTC_D_LICENSE_FILE to..licensepath/editorlicensefile.txt;7788@hostname and I have also tried..licens

Hello! I have to use obsolete Arbortext Editor 5.2. I need to collect text from XML in a certain way (I need to put '\n' for some text nodes in result string). I've already made a function in Java 5 which executes this using activeDocument. But I have problems using internal Java shipped with Arbortext Editor when I deal with unopenedXML files.I want to get org.w3c.dom.Document object and then pass it to my function.I used default code with DocumentBuilder factory, it led toorg.apache.xerces.dom.DeferredDocumentImpl exception.I try to use DOMParser which implementation is here:xercesImpl.jarI need to ignore "DTDs not found"/namspace errors.

If I have 4 specific topics that can be reused in every ditamap that I created. What do I need to do to group them together? I tried placing them in a ditamap then including that ditamap in the original ditamap, but it did not give me the results that I wanted.thanksBryon

i need to make changes to our DTD and all the instance files that use the DTD for our product documents that Are stored in Windchill. Does anyone know of a way to loop through the documents in a library and run a transform, either XSLT or ACL, then check in the resulting document as a new revision? I'd rather not manually checkout/edit each file just to apply a script.

If you are in a topic and the cursor is at the bottom of it and you save, then close. When you open the file you will be at the spot where you saved. Is there a setting to make the cursor go to the top automatically instead of scrolling?

I'm trying to get an instance of Arbortext PE/E3 5.4 running and am getting this error. I suspect it is a configuration somewhere that I need to make, or a parameter setting on, say, the E3ConvertMethodInterface, but I can't figure out what needs to be set. Does anyone have any ideas?Error-Arbortext PE Convert Internal Error e3::convert: ...Unable to load document type due to errors parsing DTD: "D:\foo.xsd"Java-E3ConvertMethodInterface convert = e3.createConvertMethod(CONVERT_FORMAT);convert.setParameter(E3ConvertMethodInterface.FOSI_PARAMETER, fosi);convert.setParameter(E3ConvertMethodInterface.PDF_CONFIG_FILE_PARAMETER,"D:\\apps\\PTC\\PE\\lib\\screen.pdfcf");convert.setParameter(E3ConvertMethodInterface.INPUT_FORMAT_PARAMETER, "xml");long fileSize = convert.post("D:/in.xml", "D:/out.pdf"); // <---- fails here

I have a Styler stylesheet that was originally a 5.1 stylesheet that I have migrated to 6.02 and modified. I am trying to add it as a module to another stylesheet and I get an error that says," Unable to add the file specified to the module hierarchy. The top level <styler> element is invalid or missing." The stylesheet that I'm trying to add functions fine on it's own and passes the Stylesheet Validation in Styler with no errors. Here is the <styler> element from the stylesheet: <styler xmlns:xsi="" <a=" style="COLOR:" blue;=" text-decoration:=" underline"=" target="_BLANK" href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance " xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=" Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this error and how to correct it? Thanks, Carolyn Herlin

Hiya,A weird one. I'm loading a XUI dialog and many of the controls aredynamically generated. The last button to load is getting focus by default.I don't want it there so I set it directly using:dlgitem_set_focus($win, "idofitemthatshouldgetfocus")And the focus moves as requested. HOWEVER, the highlighting around the lastloaded button doesn't disappear and it doesn't appear as it should on theset button. Tab will move both focus and focus-related highlighting.Anyone seen / solved this? Am I not understanding the difference betweenprogrammatic and in-dlgitem highlighting and the highlighting(drop-shadow-looking) around the dlgitem?-- Paul Nagai

Hi Ed-- I don't think Arbortext has any PDF forms capability. If you are usingAcrobat Distiller to generate your PDF, you might be able to hacksomething using PDFMark commands embedded in the output, but otherwise Idon't know of a way to do this in Arbortext. If you decide to have a go at hacking the PostScript with PDFMarkcommands, here is something that might help you get going:

I have a file "master" xml that references other xml files (of different types, different pattern depending on the type of document). From this file, I run a command that generates the ACL of each PDF file.My question is, is there a way from Arbortext Editor to assemble all these PDF files into a single PDF file?Kind regardsDavid

Please help: Is there a way to export Tables from Editor into Excel?Thanking youTshediso

Does anyone know how to temprarily disable the escape key while a XUI dialog is displaying? I have a XUI dialog that is launched from a Java/AOM class and I need to prevent the dialog from closing when the user presses the Esc key. The dialog includes both an OK and Cancel button and I need use of those to buttons to be the only way to close the dialog.I'm pretty sure there must be some kind of event handler logic I could apply inside my controling Java/AOM app, but I do not know where to start on writing that logic. Any tips or assistance would be greatly appreciated.I'm deploying this app on a UNIX/Solaris platform, though I do not know if that matters.Regards,Tom

Hi Folks,I have a datamerge setup that requires an XSL to structure the result set. Currently the path must be hard coded to something like C:/DataMerge/Transform.xsl for it to work. I would like to keep the XSL file within the custom folder structure in Arbortext - so is ther a way to use a system variable instead? Does anyone know of some tricks?<TransformerRef name="t1" nameref="XSLTransformer"><ResourceEventListenerRef name="logger" nameref="DefaultResourceEventListener"></ResourceEventListenerRef><ParameterRef name="p_stylesheet" nameref="stylesheet"> <Value>C:/DataMerge/Tranform.xsl</Value> <<-- Currently the only way to make this work <Value>%ARBORTEXT_HOME%/custom/datamerge/Tranform.xsl</Value> <<-- Ideally we would like this to work</ParameterRef>Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

I want to create a cross reference in Arbortext that opens a PDF or Word document that is located in Windchill. Is this possible? The resource manager only displays DITA content even when the "TYPE" filter at the bottom of the resource manager is set to "PDF or "Any".FYI, I was able to accomplish this with a Word document that is located on a network drive.

While trying to open some older data modules, I selected S1000D_2-2 rather than S1000D_2-2-1. Now, each time I open the data module it validates to the 2-2 issue. I've searched help, online resources, and this discussion area. I haven't been able to find a way to change the schema being used when I open the data module.Can someone explain in simple terms how the schema association changed? Also, is there a command that would allow me to simply change schema to the correct issue?Thanks for your help.

Dear all,We are using DITA data model in Arbortext and we would like to filter the content based on Profiling attributes and reposit in CMS(Windchill).I believe in AT-Editor we can filter the content but we can't reposit dynamically in the CMS so that I would like to find approach in APE to invoke before publishing with the help of JAVA classes.It would be much helpful if anybody can share their opinion on this...Thanks,Bala, AJ

Ok, this makes me happy.I do not agree that this is correct behavior, BUT I now believe I have areliable method for dlgitem_sets and _gets. And by that I mean, I don't use_sets with checkboxes. Because they don't work correctly. In my opinion. (Iam not sure yet whether this is true of other types of controls.)The following code samples half work. They update the visual display of theXUI dialog but do not fully set the VALUE attribute of the item so thatsubsequent _gets find the box checked:dlgitem_set($xuiwin, 'production_current', 'VALUE', 1)dlgitem_set_value($xuiwin, 'production_current', 1)To be clear, if you look at the XUI checkbox id="production_current" withyour eyes, you will see a check. If you programmatically _get that itemwith either dlgitem_get or dlgitem_get_value, you will find it is notchecked.The following _set code will, however, TRULY set the check box:junkarrs = oid_find_child_attrs(oid_root($xuidoc), junkarr, "id","production_current")junk = oid_modify_attr($junkar

I'm hoping someone can help me understand some changes in Arbortext 6.0. We updgraded from 5.3 to 6 and despite my efforts to track all the things that got updated, there are some changes that I cannot make sense of. Right now I'm trying to understand the JVM usage of the editor. without any customizations (renamed our custom folder to OLDcustom), when you start Arbortext editor, you get at least 3 processes started: editor.exejava.exejavaw.exein Arbortext 5.3, you only got an epic.exe started. I did some reading and found that the editor will except a commandline argurment "-nojvm" which, according to the admin guide, "Does not initialize the embedded Java Virtual Machine (JVM) when Arbortext Editor starts"However, using this option appeared to have no effect. Am I missing something? Does arbortext editor need to spawn two JVMs? What are each used for?My concern stems from resources. Our server that hosts many users running the editor at once and was running low on memory and we saw m

I use Java and Arbortext Editor 5.2. I need to create toolbar from xml and menu.It is loaded in the handler a-la OnLoadDocument. Is it correct handler for this task?But what should I do when one more doc is opened? How can I distinguish toolbar owners?Why does my menu disappear after loading doc in empty Arbortext Editor?

Good day!Let us mark cursor position in the form of "|" sign.For example, we have the following node in Arbortext Editor 5.2.<node1>This is a sim|ple text.</node1>Then my Java plugin encloses part of text with a "b" and "i" nodes:<node1>This is a sim|ple text.</node1>I want to restore the cursor position relatively to "node1", but the following code will not help me:pos = oid_caret_pos(oid) // oid of the node1...goto_oid(oid, pos)oid_caret_pos treats each non-text object (that is, markup, equations, tables, graphics) as one character.

Iam using Arbortext Editor 5.3 since last few months. I got a requirement to enhance User interface with more features (ex: Shuttle component). I've developed sample UI application using ADF(Application Developement Framework) as per our client requirement and is running on Weblogic server. I just want to provide communication from Arbortext to web application. I need to pass some information back to Arbortext from web application. It would be really helpful, if you can suggest on this. Is there any way to provide communication with other systems?

Hi guys,We are just helping out with a 5.3 -> 6.0 upgrade and have come across one peculiarity. Previously, in 5.3, this command enabled remapping of the toolbar "Print" button:map Toolbar_Print { some_function(); }Trying this under 6.0, it fails "Unrecognized key name: Toolbar_Print"Anyone come across this before? What is the simplest way to override one of the built-in toolbar buttons in 6.0?[cid:image001.jpg@01CDFA28.73158B40]Gareth Oakes+61-439-743-740