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  • Automatic baseline synchronization between publications for translated manuals

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    We usually translate one manual into a bunch of languages. We publish multiple language manuals from one publication by specifying 'Language combination' for each language. We don't create a publication for each language. Because it is difficult to maintain...
  • Creating Translation Kit for Cost Estimation

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    There are times when our customers orders a translation then cancel it after a few weeks when seeing the quotation (price). This sometimes cause a problem for us since we use Darwin Information Typing Architecture or Document Information Typing Architecture...
  • Allow Inboxes to have an Alias / Display name

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    I have played with the Inbox definitions for some time. It seems that with the simple ability to have a display name for the inbox, the options for implementing workflows would increase significantly. For example: - Two different users/roles could...
  • Open / preview attached documents in Review Space

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    When a file is attached to a topic (non-dita resource), it cannot be opened from Draft Space to verify that is it the correct document attached. We would like at least standard filetypes (xlsx, pptx, docx, pdf...) to be possible to open in a new browser...
  • Show title text in Pub Man for a local xref added via Oxygen XML Author

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    Hi, If I add a local xref to a topic in XMetaL, there is a PI added e.g. <xref href="GUID-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"><?xm-replace_text Ann Communication / Information?></xref> This link text is then shown in Pub Man in HTML view for a topic...
  • Ability to add folders to favorites in Content Manager Explorer (enhancement request)

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    Feature (creating a folder which resides only under the Favorites shortcut, and when favoriting a folder or content item, sending the item to the favorites sub-folder instead of the favorites root folder) is not available in any current product version...
  • Add Option to Select Language in Draft Online

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    The Draft Online option does not allow users to select the language to edit the publication content. The Review Online option, however, does allow the language selection option for users to choose a language. The only way content authors can edit translated...
  • Default option for exporting all metadata fields

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    Currently, as far as I know, we have to specify each and every metadata field we want to include in exports, using the XML Background Task settings. However, this can get pretty tedious if we just want to export everything as is so that we can then import...
  • Change icon color of topics on the Publication Manager tree view

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    To identify shared topics, we are adding specific prefix to the topic's object name. For example, topic's object name are: +1ATSO(Con)Safe operation +1ATSO(Con)General precautions My idea is that enhance Publication Manager to be able to change...
  • Improvements for adding resources in the Web Client

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    In the web client, the user would like to be able to multi-select the resources. Current behavior in 14sp3 is a select one resource click Add, then select resource two and click Add. It would be nice it they could click 5 in the same set of resources...