Not able to view the Author tab for build.xml file in Oxygen Editor and Oxygen Author

[sia]

Users are unable to view the Author tab for the build.xml files when an external framework has been associated with it. This issue is happening only for some users, who are applying the extended ANT framework with some customizations on it for the first time. Could you let me know what could be causing this issue ?

[Radu]

Hi,

In the Oxygen Preferences->"File Types" page there is an "Ant build patterns" field. Any file which matches this pattern and is opened in Oxygen is offered by Oxygen special ANT content completion and validation. Unfortunately for any such file we also remove the editing modes (Grid/Author) because we considered there would not be usecases for people to edit in the Author mode. Could you tell us more about this use case? Did you also create special editing actions in the Author mode for ANT scripts?
So if you have someone for whom the editing modes are not visible, they need to edit the "Ant build patterns" pattern and place there a pattern which is no longer matched like "buildZZZ", in this way Oxygen will open ANT build files as plain XML files and the Text/Grid/Author editing modes will be present.

Regards,
Radu