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Allow footnotes to be configurable as either inline or not based on the use-case for Review Space.

Allow footnotes to be configurable as either inline or not based on the use-case for Review Space. Footnote functionality was updated to remove "inline" footnote text so that footnote text is placed at the bottom of the topic in Review Space. The following example shows footnote text from several tables in a topic displayed in Review Space:
Screenshot of Tridion Docs Review Space showing text with subscript and superscript formatting, followed by a list of three footnotes at the bottom of the page, each with an upward arrow icon.

When writers have a footnote in a table that does not appear at the end of the topic, they now need to tell the reviewers to ignore the formatting of footnote text in Review Space, as footnote text will be placed correctly in the output for the customer.  

Placing footnote text at the bottom of a topic in Review Space can also be cumbersome to reviewers for several reasons:

* If you have several tables in a topic, all footnote text is automatically placed at the bottom of the topic in Review Space. Reviewers then need to click the corresponding up arrow for each footnote text to determine which table contains the footnote reference mark.

* If you have a substantial amount of text after the table, it can be disorientating to the reviewers to be suddenly thrown to the bottom of a topic after clicking a footnote reference mark in a table.

If writers could configure footnote text to be inline, the footnote text would appear under their corresponding tables in Review Space.  

Christina Rothwell

  • Hi Christina,

    I see that you gave a thumbs up to Oleksandr's response, so I assume that it was helpful. Please let us know if you have any further questions.

  • Hi Christina,

    I could suggest modifying BehaviorConfig.xml to show footnote text inline. Here's an example for the footnotes in table cells:

    <behaviorscopegroup name="Customization">
        <behaviorgroup name="Inline">
            <inline xpath="self::fn[ancestor::entry]" priority="10" backgroundcolor="lime" superscript="yes">
                <label>Inline footnote</label>
            </inline>
        </behaviorgroup>
    </behaviorscopegroup>

    As a result the text is shown as a superscript right where it's placed (and also duplicated at the bottom of the page)
    Screenshot showing a table cell with the text 'Text in a cell' followed by an inline superscript footnote reading 'Some text in a footnote'.

    You can modify xpath expression as needed if you want the footnotes to appear the same way in other places or everywhere.