[oXygen-user] Auto-insert element with cc_config

[Scott Prentice]

Thanks, Radu!

I appreciate the information and additional options. Will look into what 
works best for this client.

Regards,
...scott


On 10/11/22 10:28 PM, Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu) wrote:
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> Welcome to the Oxygen mailing list!
>
> The DITA "Insert image" dialog has a "Figure title" text field. Once 
> you fill that, it automatically inserts a figure. So what you want may 
> not be that necessary.
>
> Coming back to what you want, the "cc_config.xml" file does not have 
> the ability to invoke custom actions in certain contexts.
>
> There are other settings when creating a DITA framework extension 
> which allow you to remove an item from the content completion window 
> (for example remove <fig>) and add instead of it a custom Author 
> action with the same name which may perform other things when invoked:
>
> https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/custom-author-action-content-completion.html
>
> For example you can create a custom Author action which inserts an XML 
> snippet like this in the document:
>
> "<fig><title></title><image href="/${ask('Input URL', 
> ///relative_url/)}/"/></fig>"
>
> Oxygen has support for various editor variables which get expanded 
> when used in XML snippets:
>
> https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/24.1/ug-editor/topics/editor-variables.html
>
> This "/{ask('Input URL', ///relative_url/)}/" editor variable would 
> show a very simple URL chooser, so it does not show the "Insert image" 
> dialog.
>
> If you want to show the "Insert image" dialog, you have the option to 
> create an Author action which calls a sequence of two or more other 
> Author actions:
>
> https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/composing-author-actions.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Radu
>
> Radu Coravu
> Oxygen XML Editor
> On 10/11/22 18:07, Scott Prentice wrote:
>>
>> I've added the following to my cc_config file ..
>>
>> *<elementProposals path="fig" insertElements="image" />*
>>
>> This properly inserts an <image> element when a <fig> is added, but 
>> the Insert Image dialog doesn't display. I tried including 
>> "insert.image" in the insertElements attribute, but that didn't do 
>> the trick.
>>
>> Is it possible to get an image to be added when a fig is inserted, 
>> but also provide the Insert Image dialog?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> ...scott
>>
>>
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