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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

Actually we are going to migrate the data from docbook to DITA. In docbook they used FOSI as stylesheet to render the PDF. But in DITA we are planning to use XSL/XSL-FO as stylesheets. Will the Publishing Engine supports/read the XSL/XSL-FO that was developed in DITA-OT.Could you please you guys throw an light in this doubt.DITA(Arbortext Editor) --> PE--> Windchill CMS | | XSL/XSL-FO

Hi Adepters,I'm having a problem calling Java from ACL with the java_* functions.I guess it must be my environnement that is faulty as I can't even run a very simple sample.I went to C:\Program Files\Epic\src\java and did all the README file says.My Java version is 1.6.0_17 and the OS is Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2I open a DOS command window.Go to the C:\Program Files\Epic\src\java directory.Type the following command :"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_17\bin\javac" -classpath "C:\program files\epic\lib\classes\aom.jar" *.javaCopy the Hello.class file in C:\Program Files\Epic\custom\classesThen I launch Epic 4.3 and type this line in the editor's command line :eval java_static('Hello','sayHello')And get this error : [A30135] No definition of the class Hello could be found.I've tried to see if any post on this mailing list did cover that issue, but found none relevant to my case.Any idea on what is wrong ?Thanks and regardsChristophe LefebvreLexisNexis France

With APP V11 M030 we have a totally different layout (2 lines more per page, text doesn't fit into tablecolumn anymore, ...).We cannot compare V10 with V11.We cannot use existing files without redesign each document.Going to the new version is a really big change for us.Was the old metric that bad? We havn't had any problems in the past.

Wondering if anyone ran into issues upgrading customizations from 5.4 to 6.0. Could you do it on your own, or did you need external support? We have a unique application and custom folder that rest outside of the install path\custom folder. When we move forward to 6.0, the stylesheets can upgrade, but since i have APTAPPLICATION set I believe, it's not find the java dita.application object. I guess the bigger question is, how do you model customizations forward to the new release?ThanksBryon Thomas

Hi everyone,Pleased to announce the release of Arbortext 6.0 M070! Read the release notesow.ly/h7CRoand download it today fromow.ly/h7CUC.Thanks,Pushpinder Toor, Technical Information Solution Manage

We would like to use the Paste Excel... option, however our data model does not allow text content directly in a "cell" element - the text must be wrapped in a "para" element first. This is stopping the Paste Excel option from working. Is there any way of getting Arbotext to automatically wrap the pasted text in the "para" element in each cell?Thanks