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All,   Does anyone have a code sample to generate 'List of Effective pages' in Styler by editing APP resource? I tired and could not get somewhere closer.  Does APP has something like FOSI SaveText/UseText? Any help will be highly appreciated.   Rashmi Gaonkar rashmigaonkar75@gmail.com    

I have two questions about adding generated text numbering to documents. 1.) What is causing the ability to add numbering to an element to be turned off? 2.) How to I continue a numbering scheme so that it runs through two different elements (paragraphs and titles)?   I'm in the process of converting FOSI files for different document types into Stylesheets. The FOSI supports numbering in the different section titles. When I open the Generated Text category for a title in my converted Stylesheet has Numbers and bullets greyed out, so I cannot add numbering schemes to the titles. Some of the titles that I can add inside of a section allow numbering, but that numbering doesn't follow the order of the numbering added to the paragraphs before and after the title element, so I'll have paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and then title 1 and then paragraphs 4, 5, 6, etc.   I've been able to add the numbering schemes to elements that wrap the title and the paragraph to get the numbering to work. Howe

Hello , we need a callout scheme similar to numeric ATA but with an increment +10. Any solution for this topic?   Thanks in advance  

Good afternoon, I am newbie to this web output format. When you publish to web, using the default output. How do I modify the size of the banner? I can replace the default PTC logo banner with our banner but the frames are over the text.   Thanks,   Bryon    

Hello everyone, I'm fighting my way through the conversion of our legacy FOSIs into stylesheets. The canned numbering capabilities provided by Styler aren't working out for me.   I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to get a the lettered generated text from a previous element and increment it for the current element using the XPath Override in the Number Details screen. I'm using an ATA DTD that wraps paragraph elements and title elements inside of two other elements. I changed the title element to have block formatting so that I can add numbering to it, but now I'm running into problems when I try to use the Restart functionality in Styler. My title restarts at A, and so does the paragraph that follows it. Here is an example of the element structure that I'm working with. <prclist1>     <prcitem1><prcitem><title>A. Here is my title</></prcitem></prcitem1>     <prcitem1><prcitem><para>A. Here is

Hello, I'm looking for a way to locate the tags that contain blanks at the start of the tag content. What is the best way using an ACL function ? Best regards David

How do I tell ArborText Styler where the HTML Help Compiler (hhc.exe) is located? In Styler, when I select Preview > HTML Web Help, I receive this error: "The HTML Help Compiler is not installed." It is absolutely installed on my computer. 

Hello, I have a table that that has a column of indexterm elements that I would like to delete. How can I select all of the indexterm elements and delete them?   Bryon 

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If I open a map, and click along the tree. I press enter and I get a list of elements that I can insert. What defines the list, is it the techinfo.xsd file? How do I add or hide elements? I am looking specifically at adding the appendix element. I have looked in the default stylesheet and it is an element that is listed in there.   Thanks Bryon    

Hey everybody.   Our Arbortext plugin highlights potential errors in the text with color. But this introduces a lot of unwanted "_font" tags into the document view. We can hide those manually by looking at the document's DCF and adding this: <ElementDisplay element="_font" fullTagModeDisplay="none" partialTagModeDisplay="none"/>   Please advise if there is a chance to do the same temporarily&safely from the plugin's code? Looking for some guidance in ACL or Java.   thank you.

Hi there, I'm using Arbortext Editor 8.0. According to the documentation at https://support.ptc.com/help/arbortext/r8.0.0.0/en/Program/acl_ref/help2141.html#, "goto_oid does not reposition the screen when moving the cursor". But in reality it does reposition the screen. For example, if I use goto_oid(oid_last()), it scrolls to the bottom. Is the documentation inaccurate? Is there a way to move the cursor without repositioning the screen? Thanks!

Just wondering if they work through a remote desktop connection. Currently we have mostly node locked licenses and cannot open the programs through a remote session.   Bryon

The wheel scroll zooming feature quit working, in IsoDraw 7.3. It has been working, as expected, until recently. It works fine, in other PTC applications, I.E. Creo Illustrate and Creo View. I am running Windows 10. I have followed the recommendations to turn off "Scroll inactive windows..." with no results.

If possible, Please add features like creating Tables in IsoDraw it would be very grateful.   Anil.

When we create the list of revisions it is not always in order. We manually publish the pdf and adjust the table accordingly, by looking at the pdf to see what the page number is. Looking for a better method.   My thoughts are either have a script that when the document is open it checks the xrefs in the first column against the ditamap, and copy's and pastes the row in a new table at the bottom of the document in the correct order.   Or a script were have to publish the pdf once to get the page number, enter it in a comment.   Thanks Bryon

Hello, I've been tasked with adding a note to a page that displays in the header of a pageset.  Everything was implemented and works, except that now the header size can be various heights, if the note is long enough. Previously the header was hard set to a certain height so that the content inside the tag would start immediately after the header. But now that the size of the header can be changed depending on what the document writer puts, this no longer works. Is there a way to set a header to be dynamic in height so that rather it's 1 or 3 lines the following content will start relative to this new header height?   We're using Arbortext 7.1 fosi.

Hi there, I'm researching if/how you can schedule a publishing job through the publishing engine.    For example, Someone has a really large document that takes hours to publish, we would like to able to hold off on publishing these until say 9:00 pm when everyone's left the office.    I've been looking through some documentation I found online and if i'm understanding it correctly, it looks like it needs to be custom made with Java. 

Hello, I find that when tag templates are created, they are saved to my local drive. Has anyone found a way of using them to single source for an entire department? Thanks.

This is for "For Web" publishing (see screenshot below). I started with the default frameset found in C:\Program Files\PTC\Arbortext Editor\framesets\default (as pictured below). As a test, I just threw in a "<xsl:value-of select='//date'/>" which did not work (pictured below). Does anyone know how I can pass data from the source XML file to the frameset? I know I can retrieve the publish date on the client side using JavaScript, but I would like to limit the client side processing as much as possible.   Thanks, -James

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I am using the latest version of Styler and having an issue creating a variable header. I have a manual that has multiple sections each with it's own title. I need to display the section title in both of the left and right headers of the body pageset. The problem I am having is how to get the current section title to display for just that section. The next section needs to display it's related title and so on. I have been trying straight XPath, XPath with conditions /manual//section[1]/title, both with and without ufe's. Can anyone please tell me if I this is possible or if there is some other method I should try? Any help is greatly appreciated. This is driving me crazy! It seems like it should be somewhat simple.

Trying to add the set preference to my queue menu, but it does not seem to work. Looking for some guidance in ACL.   # create menuif (!menu_exists('.Window')) {return;} if ( !menu_exists( '.Queue.' ) ) { menu_add -menu .Window "Queue"; menu_add "Queue." ""Long" cmd "set -preference petransactionoptions = \"queueID:long\""";menu_add "Queue." ""Short" cmd "set -preference petransactionoptions = \"queueID:short\""";menu_add "Queue." ""None" cmd "set -preference petransactionoptions = \"queue:yes\"""; } } # _addmenu()   Thanks    BRyon

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