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by ann.jensen
Thu Dec 01, 2016 7:24 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: xref to keyref with keyscope
Replies: 3
Views: 1728

xref to keyref with keyscope

Hi, I am using keyscopes to generate 2 instances of a single topic for 2 different products (each in a separate map). I want to link to each of these instances from another topic. I have set up key definitions in each map to reference each instance via its relevant keyscope. When I publish to webhel...
by ann.jensen
Thu Dec 01, 2016 7:01 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Support for WMV video format
Replies: 2
Views: 1344

Support for WMV video format

Hi,
Does the newly added Insert a reference to a media resource feature in Author support WMV file formats?
Thanks in advance,
Ann
by ann.jensen
Mon Nov 07, 2016 6:55 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: DITA Map MS Office Word (Experimental)
Replies: 5
Views: 2296

DITA Map MS Office Word (Experimental)

Hi,
I have just starting playing around with the DITA Map MS Office Word (Experimental) plugin that comes bundled win oxygen XML Author. I am wondering if you are providing support for this plugin as in willing to answer questions about customising it?
Thanks in advance,
Ann
by ann.jensen
Mon Nov 07, 2016 6:00 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: DITA to rtf or odt
Replies: 3
Views: 1559

Re: DITA to rtf or odt

Hi Radu,
When you say " It produces directly a Word document based on a template document that you can customize" can you advise where the customisable template can be found?
thanks in advance,
Ann
by ann.jensen
Fri Oct 28, 2016 6:01 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Cross reference to topic reused across multiple keyscopes
Replies: 1
Views: 844

Cross reference to topic reused across multiple keyscopes

Hi, I have the following: - 2 maps for product1 and product2 each with a keyscope defined on them. - a single topic defined in product1 and reused in product2. The topic content varies slightly based on keys defined in each container map and used in the topic. - a third topic uses 2 cross references...
by ann.jensen
Tue Oct 25, 2016 6:45 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How to change image size in Pdf transform?
Replies: 1
Views: 1921

How to change image size in Pdf transform?

Hi, I am trying to do the following with images sizes: - reduce the image size to 50% for PDF transform - apply scalefit for webhelp transform My DITA code is as follows; <step> <cmd>Select an Occupied Properties - <ph conref="../../../../../t_content_refs.dita#t_content_refs/evic_init_task&quo...
by ann.jensen
Tue Oct 25, 2016 3:44 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How to create a page break in the text
Replies: 11
Views: 8447

Re: How to create a page break in the text

Hi,
Does it matter in which file this code is placed?
I am working with the structure as described in http://www.dita-ot.org/dev/dev_ref/pdf- ... ample.html.
Thanks in advance,
Ann
by ann.jensen
Tue Oct 25, 2016 2:35 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: DITA to rtf or odt
Replies: 3
Views: 1559

DITA to rtf or odt

Hi,
I have found useful information on how to customise DITA to Pdf transform and now I would like to try to same with rtf and/or odt transform.
Is there any information out there that can help me with the customisation (fonts, colors etc.) of these?
Thanks in advance,
Ann
by ann.jensen
Mon Oct 17, 2016 11:11 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Reusing a ditamap along with keyscopes
Replies: 6
Views: 1912

Re: Reusing a ditamap along with keyscopes

Hi,
I forgot to mention that everything resolves fine in Author view in oXygen XML Author but this is not the case when I run the transform to generate WebHelp.
Regards,
Ann
by ann.jensen
Mon Oct 17, 2016 10:44 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Reusing a ditamap along with keyscopes
Replies: 6
Views: 1912

Re: Reusing a ditamap along with keyscopes

Hi Radu, I am having difficulty with this approach again. Taking my description in my previous post - if my 2 ditamap references each live within 2 topicrefs that have keyscopes set on them, can I still use this approach? <topicref href="AspeniProperties/c_about_iproperty.dita" collection-...
by ann.jensen
Mon Oct 17, 2016 10:15 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How to change webhelp homepage based on screen size
Replies: 3
Views: 1608

Re: How to change webhelp homepage based on screen size

Hi Radu, From what I can see, when I set the Welcome message it appears in the wh_welcome div, whereas in Oxygen site it is part of ug-editor-name div. The ug-editor-name div content disappears when screen size reduces but the wh_welcome div content doesn't. The ug-editor-name div doesn't appear to ...
by ann.jensen
Thu Oct 06, 2016 7:07 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How to change webhelp homepage based on screen size
Replies: 3
Views: 1608

How to change webhelp homepage based on screen size

Hi,
I am looking to implement something like you have on https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/18.0/ug-editor/ where the editor image and name disappears when the screen size reduced to phone size.
Can you advise how much customisation was required to achieve this?
Thanks in advance,
Ann
by ann.jensen
Mon Sep 26, 2016 5:18 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Reusing a ditamap along with keyscopes
Replies: 6
Views: 1912

Re: Reusing a ditamap along with keyscopes

Hi Radu, I just tried again and it is possible. I can reuse a reference to a DITAMAP, set a unique keyscope value on each map reference (or a parent topic) and then set the same keydefs with different values within the <topicref> and </topicref> elements for each of the map references. Hope that mak...
by ann.jensen
Fri Sep 23, 2016 6:05 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Reusing a ditamap along with keyscopes
Replies: 6
Views: 1912

Reusing a ditamap along with keyscopes

Hi, I have a ditamap with a bunch of child topics that relate directly to one of my products...and with a small few changes also relate to another of my products. Because of the commonalities I would like to reuse this map and use keys with key scope to deal with the differences. I have done this su...
by ann.jensen
Tue Sep 20, 2016 4:28 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Advice on use of source control with DITA and Oxygen
Replies: 4
Views: 1765

Re: Advice on use of source control with DITA and Oxygen

Sorry Cristian,
The SVN server is Visual SVN Server 3.5.1.
I will mail you privately about organising a demo.
Regards,
Ann
by ann.jensen
Tue Sep 20, 2016 4:12 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Advice on use of source control with DITA and Oxygen
Replies: 4
Views: 1765

Re: Advice on use of source control with DITA and Oxygen

Thanks Cristian,
We are using Toirtoise SVN client for Subversion.
I would be very interested in getting more information about all of this and a demo would be very helpful.
Can I privately contact you?
Regards,
Ann
by ann.jensen
Tue Sep 20, 2016 2:47 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Advice on use of source control with DITA and Oxygen
Replies: 4
Views: 1765

Advice on use of source control with DITA and Oxygen

Hi, I am currently developing system documentation for our company using with the following structure: oXygen XML Author for editing oXygen WebHelp engine for transform SVN for source control where I commit files developed locally using Toirtoise SVN tool TeamCity for centralised and automated trans...
by ann.jensen
Fri Sep 16, 2016 1:57 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Topic References outside the main DITA Map folder
Replies: 1
Views: 915

Topic References outside the main DITA Map folder

Hi, I am new to and trying to create a demo project using DITA Learning and Training specialization. The reason I want to try this is to see if we can reuse DITA content already that I have already created for system documentation. My System Documentation project is sitting alongside my (new) Learni...
by ann.jensen
Fri Sep 09, 2016 6:54 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Use of conkeyref with product metadata attribute
Replies: 1
Views: 798

Use of conkeyref with product metadata attribute

Hi, I am trying to use a conkeyref across 2 sibling ditamaps within a root ditamap. I have set the user-defined metadata attribute product for each of the sibling ditamaps. In m_iproperty_docs.ditamap <map collection-type="sequence" product="iproperty"> <!-- Key definitions --> <...
by ann.jensen
Fri Aug 19, 2016 4:25 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How to embed webhelp output within another site
Replies: 3
Views: 1851

Re: How to embed webhelp output within another site

Sorry Bogdan, I am not sure what you are asking me to do. What I have done is as follows: I have a visual studio solution locally and I have copied the webhelp output into a folder in aim\web of that VS solution I have run this solution and navigated to index.html of webhelp output in aim\web folder...
by ann.jensen
Thu Aug 18, 2016 5:59 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How to embed webhelp output within another site
Replies: 3
Views: 1851

How to embed webhelp output within another site

Hi, We want to make our system documentation generated using Oxygen Webhelp available to one of our clients. Our client uses one of our client systems with is a VS developed website. Having access control to the system documentation is very important. So the first approach we are considering is pigg...
by ann.jensen
Fri Aug 05, 2016 4:41 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How long should WebHelp transform take?
Replies: 14
Views: 3219

Re: How long should WebHelp transform take?

Thanks to Radu, my memory problems when transforming to webhelp outside of Oxygen XML Author have been resolved and it is now transforming with %ANT_OPTS% set to Xmx2048m in under 7 minutes. The various properties that he suggested seem to have done the job. I have these set in an external .properti...
by ann.jensen
Thu Aug 04, 2016 2:28 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How long should WebHelp transform take?
Replies: 14
Views: 3219

Re: How long should WebHelp transform take?

Hi Radu,
When compared to yours I see that I have used many more ditamaps than you; I have 134 ditamaps and 1619 dita files.
Do you know if having a lot of ditamaps effects memory usage?
Thanks in advance,
Ann
by ann.jensen
Tue Aug 02, 2016 6:05 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How long should WebHelp transform take?
Replies: 14
Views: 3219

Re: How long should WebHelp transform take?

Because I am using conrefs to render the various system names that I am documenting, there are over 1000 content references pointing to a single file while defines all my reusable system names.
Would 1015 conrefs in a project with 6000 dita files cause memory issues?
Thanks in advance,
Ann
by ann.jensen
Tue Aug 02, 2016 1:35 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How long should WebHelp transform take?
Replies: 14
Views: 3219

Re: How long should WebHelp transform take?

Hi Radu,
Unfortunately it contains all our internal system documentation which I don't think I am in a position to share.
If you think of anything else that might be impacting our memory usage, please let me know.
Regards,
Ann
by ann.jensen
Tue Aug 02, 2016 11:23 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How long should WebHelp transform take?
Replies: 14
Views: 3219

Re: How long should WebHelp transform take?

Hi Radu, I just checked my file count and it currently stands at 1588 .dita files, 970 .png images and 130 .ditamaps. We are using DITA-OT 2.2.2 and are transforming using dita-ot-2.2.2\bin\dita.bat command and an associated webhelp.properties file On my own machine I have set %ANT_OPTS% in my envir...
by ann.jensen
Fri Jul 29, 2016 10:26 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: Generate topic ID to match file name
Replies: 6
Views: 3083

Generate topic ID to match file name

Hi, I am in the midst of refactoring my DITA files to set the top-level topic id to match the file name so that it is both unique and informative. I have managed to allow many duplicate topic ids proliferate over time :-| This is proving a tedious process and I wonder is there any short-cut to achie...
by ann.jensen
Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:41 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How long should WebHelp transform take?
Replies: 14
Views: 3219

Re: How long should WebHelp transform take?

Hi Radu, Yes I am using the WebHelp-Responsive target that was released with Oxygen 18. That is great that you are doing profiling of transforms to learn more and It will be great to hear about any tweaks that can be made to reduce memory requirements. Also, do you have any information on what kind ...
by ann.jensen
Thu Jul 28, 2016 11:04 am
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How long should WebHelp transform take?
Replies: 14
Views: 3219

Re: How long should WebHelp transform take?

Hi Radu, This is the current count for the main file types in my project: - 1767 .dita - 999 .png - 154 .ditamap I have added that property that you suggested and the transform seems to take about the same amount of time with ANT_OPTS set to -Xmx3000. The transform still fails with ANT_OPTS set to -...
by ann.jensen
Tue Jul 26, 2016 6:27 pm
Forum: DITA (Editing and Publishing DITA Content)
Topic: How long should WebHelp transform take?
Replies: 14
Views: 3219

How long should WebHelp transform take?

Hi, Having recently increased by ANT_OPTS env variable from 1024 to 2048, my external Oxygen WebHelp transformation started failing again with error [echo] Using directory C:\DITA\dita-ot-2.2.2\plugins\com.oxygenxml.webhelp/lib Error: The following error occurred while executing this line: C:\DITA\d...