What's New in Oxygen XML Web Author 19.1
Related Versions:
19.019.1
September 29, 2017
Oxygen XML Web
Author version 19.1 is the latest release for the innovative web-based authoring tool. Its
powerful technology and adaptive interface allows you to review, contribute, and
edit content from anywhere you have access to a browser, on desktop PCs, tablets,
or mobile devices. It includes a variety of new features and improvements to make your
authoring, collaborating, and reviewing experience more efficient, accurate, and productive
than ever
before.
Web Author
Image Map Editor
An
Image Map Editor has been implemented in Web Author and can
be used with images in DITA documents. It allows you to add links from specific areas of
an image to corresponding topics or other resources.
Offer Choices for Attribute Values
You can use a
configuration file to specify whether or not certain
attributes are
editable and offer a choice between several options for certain attributes
rather than arbitrary values.
Improved Read-Only Mode
Web Author now offers a customizable editor stripe for documents that are
opened as read-only. You can use it when a document is locked or not yet checked out. When
a document is opened in read-only mode, all actions are disabled.
Bitbucket and GitLab Repositories Supported
Oxygen XML Web Author can now be integrated with
Bitbucket or GitLab repositories. Web Author
now supports Single Sign On, editing, committing, and sending pull requests (or merge
requests for GitLab) directly from the editor.
Image Improvements
To
improve loading performance, large images are automatically
scaled down before loading them in Oxygen XML Web Author. Also, an image preview mode was
added along with a new
Open Image contextual menu action that allows you to open an
image in a new browser tab. You can also install an open-source plugin available on GitHub
(
web-author-imageio-plugin) that allows Web Author to render
images that are not supported by the browser (PDF images, PSD, TIFF, etc).
DITA Improvements
A new URL parameter is available that expands all topic
references in a DITA map. Also, the Attributes panel now
presents attribute values that are imposed from a
Subject Scheme Map.
Improvements to the Track Changes Feature
User Interface Improvements
The
Oxygen XML Web Author Dashboard was been redesigned to be
more intuitive and accessible. Also, the rendering of sentinel graphics was improved and a
date picker form control is available for browsers that support it
(Chrome, Edge, Chrome for Android, Safari iOS, Firefox 57).
Integrate Web Author via REST API
You can implement a simple
REST
API to integrate Oxygen XML Web Author with a CMS or file server.
API: Servlet Filter
A new plugin extension (WebappServletFilter) was added that
can be used to install a javax.servlet.Filter instance for all
REST requests made to Web Author.
API: Configure ENTER Key to Perform Line Break
A new API was added to configure the ENTER key to perform the
default line break action instead of showing the content completion list.
API: Customize Editor Layout
A new
ViewManager API was added to
customize the editor
layout so that it fits better when embedded in a CMS.
API: Custom DITA Key Resolver
The new KeyDefinitionManagerProvider API allows you to set a
custom resolver for DITA keys.
WebSphere 17.0.0.1
Updated the supported version of the WebSphere server to
17.0.0.1.
