Generate GUID in Oxygen

Question

We are using Oxygen as our authoring tool. Sometimes we need to add an ID to an element. Oxygen has this nice context menu for Generate IDs. This menu helps, but it seems to be a Oxygen specific format for the ID, e.g.

I would like to get a GUID, the same format for the id as SDL Knowledge Center generates when checking in the topic, e.g. 2. I know that I can use the ID Options dialog and change from ${id} to ${uuid}, but this does not give me the format I would like. Any tips? Morten

Jered Bastinck · Accepted Answer

Hi Morten, 
 
There are 2 ways to generate IDs on elements: 
 
1. Via the authoring Tool (as you already discovered) 
2. Via KnowledgeCenter itself. 
 
To let the system generate a GUID on the elements please follow these steps (note it requires admin rights ) 
 
1. Open the webclient 
2. Go to the settings tab 
3. Click left on XML Write Plugin settings 
4. Locate the plugin: GENERATE.LINK.ENDS 
5. Add the element where you want to have an ID on, for example for a P element: (//*[contains(@class,' topic/p ')]) 
 
For the Editor, I cant think of a better way to assign the IDs than you already discovered in the tools.

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