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I just arrived in Orlando for PlanetPTC 2012. This is my 6th PlanetPTC conference and as always it is still honor to attend.  This year brings new excitement with new role marketing for PTC’s Service Lifecycle Management Solutions. I am excited to meet some new faces and of course

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By: Manpreet Singh - Senior Product Technology Lead, PTC Arbortext manpsingh@ptc.com    Question After installing Arbortext Publishing Engine, DCOM configuration must be done as a post installation step as without doing it Arbortext Publishing Engine cannot run successfully Answer Clicking on ‘Launch PE Index Page’ under Tomcat Tab, it does not launch the page or few of the information is not populating correctly/missing. One of the main reason is, DCOM configuration is missed, and it can be set by reading this Help Center topic Configuring Publishing Engine Post Installation Post that restarts Tomcat Services and retest the use case  

By: Manpreet Singh - Senior Product Technology Lead, PTC Arbortext manpsingh@ptc.com  Question Opening a document in Arbortext Editor does not find its DTD and sometime throws this error?     Answer After doing all the modification in the xml document, catalog file, all the possible files & location and if it is still showing parsing error then one can try clearing the cache and .wcf files Please refer this article for clearing the cache https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS000143920

By: Manpreet Singh - Senior Product Technology Lead, PTC Arbortext manpsingh@ptc.com  Question Arbortext Publishing Engine does not Identify Apache Tomcat from the system even it is successfully installed Answer Installation Path will be blanked but Tomcat is already installed in the system   At the time of installing Tomcat keep the Windows Service name as Tomcat8 because by default, the Windows service is named is named Tomcatn, where n is the major release number of Tomcat (for example, Tomcat8.5). Do not rename the Tomcat service because the Arbortext Publishing Engine Configuration utility will not be able to find it. Having a different name prevents the ability of Arbortext Publishing Engine Configuration to start and stop the service. For more details please refer the help center topic Installing Tomcat                 

By: Manpreet Singh - Senior Product Technology Lead, PTC Arbortext manpsingh@ptc.com    Question Getting below error “The user xxx does not have a valid Windchill license to use the server http://abc.com/Windchill with Arbortext. Arbortext requires a PTC Author, PTC Windchill Base, PTC Windchill Advanced, or PTC Windchill Premium license.” when connecting from Arbortext Editor(client) to Windchill Server despite that user has the VALID license?   Answer Step 1: Add that xxx user under any of the above profile mentioned in the snapshot/CMS Diagnostic dialog in Windchill > Site > Profiles > License Profiles and search for these license profile. Below is just an example for adding the user under ‘PTC Author License profile’     Step 2: Click on ‘i’ button and then edit the group   Step 3: Click Next and then click ‘+’ for adding that member/user  

https://www.ptc.com/en/events/arbortext-user-group-dallas/registration Please join us.... Date: Thursday, March 8th, 2017  Time: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Location: Winewood Grill 1265 South Main Street Grapevine, TX 76051 Do you currently use Arbortext to create, manage, and distribute technical publications? PTC's Product Management and Customer Sucess are hosting an Arbortext User Group. The event will give Arbortext users the chance to: Hear from our PTC Experts about: Technical Illustrations in 2D & 3D drawings; Leveraging your CAD data Create animations for Augmented Reality experiences with 3D drawings Text creation for Service Content Customer Stories, from our Partners Highlighting the Create, Manage, Deliver Lifecycle for Text Pubs or Service RSVP now to hold your seat. We look forward to seeing you there. Agenda 11:00 am –12 pm: Customer Stories 12 pm – 1 pm: Lunch and Hands-On AR experiences 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm: S&PI Create, Manage, Deliver Roadmap 1:45 pm – 2:15 pm: Arbortext Updates 2:15 pm – 2:30 pm: Break 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm: Augmented Reality for Service 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm: PTC Customer Success with Create, Manage, and Deliver

In this Arbortext TC Dojo webinar, learn how you can change the default doctype Template and Sample so it's more representative of the content that you actually write.

We're going to start Arbortext TC Dojo sessions again. In the TC Dojo, you tell us what you want to learn and we go find experts to teach it.This survey is primarily aimed at the needs of Arbortext users, an important segment of the larger technical communications community we

For those of you who are attending LiveWorx later this month, we are running an evaluation of our prototype for a Web-based XML Editor in the User Experience Center.Early sign-up is open now!  Click here to select an evaluation time.

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Hello community-I'm looking to you for feedback on Arbortext Editor. I'm especially interested in usability improvements or small enhancements that we can look at, which would really help you in your everyday use of Editor.The survey is only 6 questions- can you please take

If so, we're looking for your feedback to help guide our roadmap! Please take this short 5 question survey letting us know of your current experience with the capability and user experience.  Click HERE for survey.I will keep the survey open until April 21st.We appreciate your

Register before March 31st to get 2 passes for the price of  1 using this discount code during the registration process: LW2X1

Hello user community!Arbortext 7.0 M060 is now available for you to download!  Please review the Release Notes and SPR Fixes documentation for more information. Have a great weekend!DocumentationAdmin GuideCMS GuideACL ReferenceRelease NotesSPR FixesSoftware Compatibility Matrices

In Arbortext, you can use the Change Tracking feature to track changes to text and markup. Change tracking facilitates collaboration with other authors and editors by highlighting changes and allowing you to accept or reject them. It's remarkably simple to take advantage of the

Announcing the release ofArbortext 102‌: Best Practices for Creating Arbortext Styler Stylesheets.The second book in the Arbortext Monster Garage series, Arbortext 102 is the second book about Arbortext and the first book about creating and publishing with Styler. Written in DITA

Learn how to build your basic customized page layout set in 30 minutes or less using Arbortext Styler. In addition, you will learn what kinds of pages are in page sets and how to determine how many page sets you will need for your project.This session is accessible to Beginners just

We are happy to let you know that Arbortext 7.0 M040 and APP 11.1 M040 is now available for customer download! A number of SPRs were addressed in these release, please refer to the documentation for more details and information.Thank you!Documentation for Arbortext 7.0 M040Release

Everyone wants a great cover on their documents. Creating cool covers and nice-looking title pages don’t need to be done in another tool, you can do that right in Styler! In this session, we’ll show you how to break down a page and create the regions you need to create the cover you

PTC Arbortext 6.1 M090 and APP 11.0 M110 are now available for download. Please refer to Release notes and documentation for more details.Documentation for Arbortext 6.1 M090Release NotesCustomer SPR Fixes in 6.1 M090Software Compatibility MatricesDownloadPTC Software download siteDocumentation