Replicating Profiling/Filtering Behaviour in Web Author
Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 6:00 pm
Hi,
I have a few interrelated questions about simulating content profiling and filtering in Web Author, to behave as it does in XML Editor, in the content development and pre-publishing phase.
As it stands, I have extended the DITA rng-topics and map document types to have a stripped down version of the frameworks to use in Web Author - it all works fine, overriding the defaults. I have also maintained the default DITAVAL framework in Web Author because it is only one template.
1. I tried to edit some of the default profiling attributes and values in my XML Editor; e.g. I set custom values for @product for the specifically extended frameworks; but when I reloaded those frameworks (deleting the previous version and restarting Web Author first as I always do before loading new frameworks) old default values were retained. How can set all the conditional profiles to be customised and transport them to Web Author with the frameworks?
2. As the above didn't work, I manually put in some custom values to conditionally profile the content of a single file, to test out the next phase. Although the ability to edit the profile in author view by clicking on the conditional value like you can in XML Editor does not exist in Web Author, I am not too concerned because they can change it in the attributes section of Web Author (current manually, but if 1. above was solved, then would be from a dropdown of choices). However, currently there is no Profiling / Conditional Text Toolbar Menu button in Web Author which I think is essential for contributors and content reviewers to be able to utilise in a collaboration tool. I realise this needs to be added to the framework, but as I extended the default DITA frameworks, I would need to know how to add this function to both the DITA Topic and DITA Map frameworks.
3. I also wanted to ask in general, can you conditionally profile a title of a topic so you have 2 different titles (currently invalid for DITA) conditionally profiled to filter whichever is needed?
Thanks
Aliah
I have a few interrelated questions about simulating content profiling and filtering in Web Author, to behave as it does in XML Editor, in the content development and pre-publishing phase.
As it stands, I have extended the DITA rng-topics and map document types to have a stripped down version of the frameworks to use in Web Author - it all works fine, overriding the defaults. I have also maintained the default DITAVAL framework in Web Author because it is only one template.
1. I tried to edit some of the default profiling attributes and values in my XML Editor; e.g. I set custom values for @product for the specifically extended frameworks; but when I reloaded those frameworks (deleting the previous version and restarting Web Author first as I always do before loading new frameworks) old default values were retained. How can set all the conditional profiles to be customised and transport them to Web Author with the frameworks?
2. As the above didn't work, I manually put in some custom values to conditionally profile the content of a single file, to test out the next phase. Although the ability to edit the profile in author view by clicking on the conditional value like you can in XML Editor does not exist in Web Author, I am not too concerned because they can change it in the attributes section of Web Author (current manually, but if 1. above was solved, then would be from a dropdown of choices). However, currently there is no Profiling / Conditional Text Toolbar Menu button in Web Author which I think is essential for contributors and content reviewers to be able to utilise in a collaboration tool. I realise this needs to be added to the framework, but as I extended the default DITA frameworks, I would need to know how to add this function to both the DITA Topic and DITA Map frameworks.
3. I also wanted to ask in general, can you conditionally profile a title of a topic so you have 2 different titles (currently invalid for DITA) conditionally profiled to filter whichever is needed?
Thanks
Aliah