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October 26, 2011
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Making display options sticky

  • October 26, 2011
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In FM 10, whenever I open a DITA topic, the Structure View and Element Catalog display options revert to defaults that look cluttered and annoying to me. The Structure View displays all the attributes, and the Element Catalog shows all the element descriptive tags. In the Structure View, I right-click, select Attribute Display Options, and set the display option to No Attributes. In the Element Catalog, I click the Options button and unset the option Show Element Descriptive Tags. Then both windows are simple and uncluttered. When I finish editing my DITA topic, save it, and close it and then open another DITA topic, the Structure View and Element Catalog revert to the cluttered view again. This gets annoying. I looked for preferences to making my preferred views permanent, but I could not find anything in the interface, in the DITA options, in the user manual, or in the maker.ini file. I tried saving the settings as part of my DITA workspace configuration, but the preferences weren't saved with the workspace, either. I don't mind having these more elaborate views available, but I do mind not being able to control them as a preference. Does anyone have a solution for this?

Susan

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ScottPrentice
Inspiring
October 26, 2011

Hi Susan...

You need to set these options in the structapp template file.

Cheers,

...scott

ScottPrentice
Inspiring
October 26, 2011

And .. as you're probably aware, DITA-FMx does provide an option to restore the previous view settings, making it unnecessary to modify the template to get your selected display options to persist between documents, but I'm thinking that this particular display option may have slipped through the cracks. I'll add that in the next update.

...scott