Arbortext Tips

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  

Looking through the forums, only one question appears more often than this one. It seems a good time to write this up.If you want to know whether any particular version of Arbortext is supported on any particular version of Windows, check the Software Compatibility Matrix.For example,

In this session, we'll show you some tricks for setting up headers and footers and the content contained in them. Add a rule above or below? Simple! Add a compound page number? A breeze! Make your header stand out with a different font or different size? Piece of cake! Want to

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You get it. You understand the value for having your content in XML. Perhaps you are already there or on your way. Now you have all of your content tagged and structured for optimal reuse. You breathe a sigh of relief.  Then you get the request to produce high quality designed outputs

Over the years, we've had questions from customers asking about the latest release. What's in it? Should they upgrade? Was my bug fixed? Is the enhancement I requested in there?It can be hard to convince yourself to read the release notes. After all, it's locked in a PDF.

Hi All,I am pleased to announce that PTC Arbortext Editor/Styler/Architect/Publishing Engine 7.0 M020 and PTC Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 11.2 M020 are now available for customer download from the PTC Software Download page under “Order or Download Software Updates”. For more

I am pleased to announce that the following are now available for customer download!PTC Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 11.1 M010Release NotesPTC Arbortext Editor/Styler/Architect/Publishing Engine 7.0 M010 Editor/Styler/Architect Release NotesSPR Fixes

Read Simon Taylor's column (it's really the "Styler" tag, but he's the main contributor so far).He's just getting started, but he's got a lot of good information going in there about what's coming down the road for Arbortext Styler. So far it's

Today at 2:30 Mike Sundquist, PTC is presenting on the topic of  Product-Centric Technical Information in Gatlin A-3. I asked him what his presentation will cover, take a look and I hope you can join us. Video Link : 3047

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                 

The PTC SLM Solution Management Team invites you to our upcoming PTC Technical Information Solutions User Community Webcast Series!On Wednesday November 18th, from 11-12pm EST join us for our next webinar: “Managing Translations with PTC Windchill Service Information Manager”, presented

In this webinar, we demonstrate the DITA feature keyrefs and conkeyrefs in Arbortext. The keyref and conkeyref mechanisms allow you to easily switch variable content. We will demonstrate how to create keys and key references; how to combine keys with maps for easier manageability;

I notice there are a lot of unanswered questions here, especially Arbortext-related questions. I'm not really surprised: Seasoned Arbortexters don't look for questions here. Usually, Arbortext folks hang out on the Adepters Mailing List. (For more information about the mailing

Do you have content in both DocBook and DITA? Are you worried that it has to be one or the other? Two doctypes means two stylesheets, right? It's not as bad as you think! If you've been following the teachings at the Dojo and using best practices, you're already using

Key Functional HighlightsDebugger improvementsAdditional controls – page up/down, run current script, reformat, saveManage tags – create, rename, change type, deleteTabbed tag editor – open multiple tags at onceImproved console – JavaScript and formatting errors, user logOpacityPDF

Today's exercises in video conversion remind me of the browser wars in the 1990s. There is no end to the pain of figuring out formats that will play well in everyone's browser on everyone's OS. Especially if you want to host the videos yourself. When you do as many videos

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

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

One of the most powerful mechanisms available to you as a stylesheet developer is the creation and use of property sets. Property sets help you abstract formatting needs into reusable components. Want consistent level 1 headers? Create a property set that you can use every time your

Using workspaces in Arbortext Content Manager (or Windchill) can be a bit confusing. How do you keep it clean? When should you create one? How long should you keep a workspace? How do you know which one to us (if you have several)? And, hey, while we're at it, why might you have