October 2020 - oXygen-user - www.oxygenxml.com

[Ann] Webinar: Introducing the Oxygen Publishing Engine for DITA
by Alin Belu 30 Oct '20

30 Oct '20

Hello, Next Wednesday, on November 4, you are invited to our latest live event - “Introducing the Oxygen Publishing Engine for DITA” webinar! Have you been looking for a solution that offers support for transforming your DITA content into PDF and WebHelp output? Look no further! In this webinar, Julien Lacour, software developer at Syncro Soft, will introduce you to the Oxygen Publishing Engine – an automation product that bundles the DITA Open toolkit transformation engine with Oxygen publishing plugins and the PDF Chemistry engine. This event will represent a crash-course for you to learn what the Oxygen Publishing Engine is by showing you how to install it, configure it in a Continuous Integration system, and then customize your output. You will be shown its components, various workflows, and also get the chance to see how to transform a DITA map document by learning how to: * Use the “DITA Map PDF – based on HTML5 & CSS” transformation on an integration server using a publishing template for customizing the output. * Create a custom CSS stylesheet and use it in your transformation to get that extra level of customization for your specific needs. * Debug the CSS inside both a web browser and Oxygen to see how to choose the correct selectors and properties used for further styling your content. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-15.html Make sure to check the full list of our upcoming Events: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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Set Color in Data Source Explorer
by Karl Stubsjoen 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

This is a wish request. Would be great if there was an option to set the color for the objects and collections in the Data Source Explorer window for a top level connection. Think DEV vs. PROD. When you have the explorer expanded and you are looking at virtually the same list of objects in PROD as in DEV you have to be VERY CAREFUL that you don't actually perform an action in PROD that you intended to do in DEV! However, if the color of the collections in PROD could arbitrarily be set, in my case I'd choose to make all of those objects red, it would be a nice visual guard against making this mistake. Karl..

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[Ann] Webinar: Explore Web Author beyond technical documentation
by Alin Belu 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

Hello, Our weekly series of live events continues on Wednesday (October 28), with the “Explore Web Author beyond technical documentation” webinar! Picture a growing company. As it grows, so does the need for standardized procedures. And when new people join the company, they often need to be trained to follow existing procedures. As you can see, a lot of time is spent in training sessions, affecting your overall productivity. With this in mind, Bogdan Dumitru, software developer at Syncro Soft, will show you how Web Author comes in handy in instances like this one, allowing you to build guided procedures where new employees don't require additional training or validation. During this webinar, you will learn various ways in which Web Author can be used to enhance your productivity: * Guiding new writers with the help of Schematron Quick Fixes or easy-to-configure contextual actions, so they can just follow the on-screen instructions. * Creating forms and sharing them with other users, with the possibility of automated processing. * Using Web Author to keep track of standardized procedures (e.g. release notes) with the possibility of filtering out the completed tasks and only focusing on the ongoing ones. * Document collaboration with real-time co-authoring. Instead of having read-only access to a document, now you can work alongside other colleagues. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-14.html Make sure to check the full list of the upcoming webinars on our Events page: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[Ann] Webinar: Transforming HTML documents to PDF, Part 1 - Basic CSS Layout
by Alin Belu 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

Hello, We continue our weekly series of live events, next Wednesday (October 21), with the “Transforming HTML documents to PDF, Part 1 - Basic CSS Layout” webinar. If you want to be able to define the look and format of your document but struggling to grasp the basics of CSS, then this is the perfect crash-course for you! In this webinar, Julien Lacour, software developer at Syncro Soft, will teach you a basic understanding of the CSS layout to help you to have a better understanding of PDF publishing. Be assured that there is no need for you to have any CSS background to learn the concepts explained during this webinar, but we promise to help get you up to speed by teaching you: * The basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML5. * How to customize your document with the help of fonts, text, and background colors, and by adjusting the position of elements on your page. * How to debug your CSS document fast and easy with the help of Oxygen. * How to put your CSS to good use and obtain a deliverable PDF output. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-13.html Make sure to check the full list of the upcoming webinars on our Events page: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[Ann] Release of Git Client Add-On version 2.3
by Alin Belu 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

Hello, We are excited to announce the release of version 2.3 for the Oxygen Git Clientadd-on! One of the most important featuresaddedin thisversionof the add-onis the Git Branch Manager, a side-view that presents all the local and remote branches as a tree. Actions added to the tree's contextual menu make it easier for you to check out branches and to create or delete branches. Also, you cannoweasily switch between local branches with the Git Branch Manager or by using the drop-down menu in the top-right corner of the Git Staging view. Other improvementsadded inversion 2.3 of theOxygenGit Clientadd-on that expand its functionality even furtherinclude: * A new action (Reset "[branch_name]" to this commit) was added in the history table that can be used to undo changes by moving the HEAD of the current branch to the selected commit. * Some editor variables are now supported, including ${git(working_copy_name)}, ${git(working_copy_path)}, ${git(short_branch_name)}, ${git(full_branch_name)}. * The Git History view now has better automatic refresh support. * A confirmation dialog box has been added for instances when you try to commit without a message. * The add-on now contributes a preferences page (Options > Preferences > Plugins > Git Client) that contains a "Notify me about new commits in the remote repository" option. When this option is selected, Oxygen will show notification messages when it detects that new commits have been pushed to the remote repository. * Support for French localization was added. * TheJGitcomponent included in the Git Client was updated to version 5.9.0. * Various other minor improvements and bug fixes were implemented. For more information, see the details for the Git Client add-on on GitHub: https://github.com/oxygenxml/oxygen-git-plugin/blob/master/README.md We hope that you will enjoyusingthelatestrelease oftheOxygen Git Clientadd-on as much as weenjoyeddevelopingit! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[Ann] Webinar: Introduction to XSLT using Oxygen XML Editor
by Alin Belu 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

Hello, Our weekly live event series continues this Wednesday (October 14) with the “Introduction to XSLT using Oxygen XML Editor” webinar! During this event, you will learn how to process XML documents with a combination of XSLT, the most powerful language designed to process XML documents, and Oxygen, the tool that is most suited for this job. Whether you are a novice or you have been using Oxygen for years, Octavian Nadolu, software architect at Syncro Soft, will show you an easy-to-use workflow, as well as many great features that you may not have been aware of. This live webinar will also teach you how to resolve a variety of problems by introducing you to: * XSLT editing features, such as the Content Completion Assistant that makes XSLT editing easy and intuitive. * XSLT validation and how to use Oxygen’s validation abilities with the support of multiple XSLT processors and automatic validation to keep your XSLT document valid at all times. * XSLT transformations and how to create a simple XSLT transformation scenario and apply it to XML documents. * XPath Content Completion Assistant that shows the proposed list of XPath functions in the current context, documented with information from the W3C specifications. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2020-12.html Make sure to check the full list of the upcoming webinars on our Events page: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[Ann] New maintenance build available for oXygen 22.1 (2020100710)
by Adrian Buza 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

Dear oXygen users, We announce the release of a new maintenance build (2020100710) for oXygen 22.1 (XML Editor, XML Developer, XML Author, XML WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, Publishing Engine). The build number can be verified in the Help -> About dialog box from the application (next to the version number). You can download the new installation kits from our web site: http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html Here you can find the complete list of bug-fixes: http://www.oxygenxml.com/build_history.html#2020100710 You can follow our oXygen release/build RSS feed here: http://www.oxygenxml.com/rssBuildID.xml Please let us know if you encounter any problems with this new build. Regards, Adrian -- Adrian Buza oXygen XML Editor and Author Support

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