Issue with Accept/Reject Change Tracking Programmatically

[mjkhan]

Hi,
I am using following code to loop over the list of track changes in XML document. The code crashes XMetaL when reading track changes which has images in it. For all other textual changes it works fine and has no problem.

  while (i++ < supplCount.length) {
        ActiveDocument.GotoNextChange();
        var strChange = Selection.TextWithRM;
        //ActiveDocument.Host.Alert(strChange);
        if (strChange.indexOf(“author=”No Change””) > 0 && ActiveDocument.CanAcceptOrRejectChange()) {
            ActiveDocument.RejectChange();
        }
    } //while

Here is the XML snippet on which the XMetal hangs and crashes.

We are using:
XMetaL Author Enterprise 8 SP1
XMetaL Author Enterprise for Documentum Version#: 4.0.0.018
XMetaL Developer 7

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks
Mahmood

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[Derek Read]

I can't reproduce this issue in either 8.0.1.051 (your version) or 9.0.0.047 (current release), presumably because my test is not the same as your's because I don't have all your code.

I'm not sure how you are setting up or checking the value for supplCount.length in your while loop, so instead of doing that I'm repeatedly running the code within it, manually, over and over.

I've created the following test document based on your snippet that includes change tracking that matches your indexOf() match as well as exact copies of your snippet that do not match. The ones that match are rejected (restored to the document), the ones that don't match are left alone. No crash. Perhaps try my test to see if you can reproduce. If not then the issue is probably triggered by the code I don't have.

[code=test DITA topic]




 
 
 

[/code]

[code=test code]
//XMetaL Script Language JScript:
ActiveDocument.GotoNextChange();
var strChange = Selection.TextWithRM;
//ActiveDocument.Host.Alert(strChange);
if (strChange.indexOf(“author=”No Change””) > 0 && ActiveDocument.CanAcceptOrRejectChange()) {
   ActiveDocument.RejectChange();
}
[/code]

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[mjkhan]

Derek,
Can you put the following content in the of the topic and try to see if the crash happens. Sometimes the cursor stops responding and when you add another element in the content is when the crash occurs. supplCount is the number of track changes within the document. So in example below you can set it 4.

               
 
 
 
               
 
 

Thanks
Mahmood

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[Derek Read]

I do not see a crash when I run that test code against this most recent sample content.

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[mjkhan]

The crash does not occur for Generic Topic. It is happening for customized Topic we have in our environment. I will open a support case to discuss it further.

Thanks!

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