Key Concept Archive
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Those Devious Authors! Simplifying the Authoring Process for New Users
Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 2, Episode 14 Arbortext provides tools developers, IT staff, and support personnel a lot of resources to simplify the Authoring interface for users. Want to turn off the ability to tweak page-breaks so you don’t need…
- Key Concepts: arbortext command language (acl) (aom), arbortext editor, ui customization
- Filed under: Webinars
- Venues: Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 2
Want to keep track of the latest release?
Over the years, we've had questions from customers asking about the latest release. What's in it? Should they upgrade? Was my bug fixed? Is the enhancement I requested in there? It can be hard to convince yourself to read the…
- Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), arbortext editor, arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext publishing engine, arbortext styler, best practices, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog, Release Details
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
How to find out whether a version of Arbortext is supported on a particular OS version
This is the one of the most-asked questions on the PTC forums. If you want to know whether any particular version of Arbortext is supported on any particular version of Windows, check the Software Compatibility Matrix. How to Find the…
- Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), arbortext editor, arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), arbortext publishing engine, arbortext styler, best practices, release notes, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog, Release Details
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
Common Questions: How to turn off Arbortext Processing Instructions
This is the second-most asked question. It's one of the most common questions we get. Problem On save, Arbortext Editor adds processing instructions, like <?Pub Caret?>. How do I remove processing instructions (PIs) ? Solution Turning off the PIs is…
- Key Concepts: arbortext editor, best practices, techcomm tools, xml authoring
- Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
- Venues:
Café con UI: Integrating XUI Dialogs with a Java Backend
Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 2, Episode 13 Clay Helberg takes XUI to the next level. XUI dialogs can do a lot more than pretty up your Arbortext environment. When combined with Java, Javascript, or ActiveX, XUI dialogs in Arbortext become…
- Key Concepts: arbortext command language (acl) (aom), arbortext editor, ui customization
- Filed under: Webinars
- Venues: Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 2
A Trip to the XUI: Basic XUI Dialogs
Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 2, Episode 12 Jason Aiken shows the basics behind customizing your Arbortext Editor User Interface to simplify the environment for you or your users. Using XUI dialogs, Jason shows how to use the sample files provided…
- Key Concepts: arbortext command language (acl) (aom), arbortext editor, ui customization
- Filed under: Webinars
- Venues: Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 2
Custom Conversions: Using XSLT in Arbortext Editor
Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 2, Episode 10 In this 30 minute, recorded web session, Jack Kulas explains how to take advantage of XSL processing inside Arbortext. Doing interesting things with automatic index generation, Jack shows the XSL-based tools that the…
- Key Concepts: arbortext command language (acl) (aom), arbortext editor, ui customization
- Filed under: Webinars
- Venues: Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 2
Stupid DCF Tricks for Your Pleasure
Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 2, Episode 9 In this 30 minute, recorded web session, Brandon Ibach explains the DCF File, an essential part of the Arbortext deployment. By manipulating this file, you’re telling Arbortext Editor how to map the bold…
- Key Concepts: arbortext command language (acl) (aom), arbortext editor, ui customization
- Filed under: Webinars
- Venues: Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 2