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gcrews December 26, 2012 at 11:24 pm
Xmetal 7 – Insert File Reference Annoyance
December 26, 2012 at 11:24 pmParticipants 1Replies 0Last Activity 10 years, 1 month agoCompared to Xmetal 6, Inserting a file reference and setting the navtitle in Xmetal 7 makes it a lot harder. What once took like 3 clicks now takes 7. In Xmetal 6 the title box was on the same tab as the browse button and you did not have to set the locktitle manually. We insert file references quite often.
Note: I have the DITA Options set to 1.1
Xmetal 6:
1. Browser for files.
2. Select title
3. Paste title text from clipboardXmetal 7:
1. Browser for files
2. Set locktitle to Yes
3. Switch tabs
4. Select navtitle box
5. Select text
6. Right click mouse
7. Paste title text from clipboardI think it’s a big oversight to not handle simple “Ctrl+v” operation when the curser is blinking in a textbox or you have text selected. I have to instruct the writers “Right click and then choose Paste, Ctrl+V dosen't work there.”
Note 2: If you change the DITA Options from 1.1 to 1.2 without closing the maps you have open, you start getting error messages when you try 1.2 items in the properties dialog.
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