Enhancement Request: Make keyref dialog wider
Good practice for DITA key names is to use a distinguishing prefix so that related keys sort together alphabetically. I'm finding that the default width of the Insert Content Key Reference dialog is too narrow so that the keys are truncated before even the complete prefix is display. E.g., my keys are "action-handler-foo-bar" where "action-handler-" is the common prefix. Suggest making the default width for the dialog at least twice the current default. Cheers, E. -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 512.554.9368 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com
Hi Eliot, This small improvement will probably be available in Oxygen 13.1 in a month or so. Oxygen 13.1 will also contain a button in the "Insert Topic Reference" dialog allowing for easily selecting keyrefs as you suggested in a previous email. By the way, from your experience, are there usually many keys defined on a DITA Map? Can there be hundreds of keys defined for example? Would a "quick find" search field help in the same dialog if it would be available? Regards, Radu Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com On 9/27/2011 5:30 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
Good practice for DITA key names is to use a distinguishing prefix so that related keys sort together alphabetically.
I'm finding that the default width of the Insert Content Key Reference dialog is too narrow so that the keys are truncated before even the complete prefix is display. E.g., my keys are "action-handler-foo-bar" where "action-handler-" is the common prefix.
Suggest making the default width for the dialog at least twice the current default.
Cheers,
E.
Yes, there could be 100s of keys in a map. For example, the DITA Language Reference has one key per language reference entry and that would be typical for that type of document. For glossaries you would also expect to have at least one key per glossary entry so that you can then use @keyref on <keyword> or <term>. In the context of an encyclopedia-type document you might have 10s of 1000s of keys. Another recommended best practice is to use keys for references to graphics, so at least one key per graphic. So yes, anything to make finding specific keys easier will be very helpful. Cheers, Eliot On 9/28/11 3:56 AM, "Radu Coravu" <radu_coravu@sync.ro> wrote:
Hi Eliot,
This small improvement will probably be available in Oxygen 13.1 in a month or so. Oxygen 13.1 will also contain a button in the "Insert Topic Reference" dialog allowing for easily selecting keyrefs as you suggested in a previous email.
By the way, from your experience, are there usually many keys defined on a DITA Map? Can there be hundreds of keys defined for example? Would a "quick find" search field help in the same dialog if it would be available?
Regards, Radu
Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com
On 9/27/2011 5:30 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
Good practice for DITA key names is to use a distinguishing prefix so that related keys sort together alphabetically.
I'm finding that the default width of the Insert Content Key Reference dialog is too narrow so that the keys are truncated before even the complete prefix is display. E.g., my keys are "action-handler-foo-bar" where "action-handler-" is the common prefix.
Suggest making the default width for the dialog at least twice the current default.
Cheers,
E.
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-- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 512.554.9368 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com
Hi Eliot, Thanks for the details, it helps. We'll see if we can make the quick find in the "Insert Key Reference" dialog a feature of Oxygen 14 (in about a year). Regards, Radu Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com On 9/28/2011 1:33 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
Yes, there could be 100s of keys in a map. For example, the DITA Language Reference has one key per language reference entry and that would be typical for that type of document.
For glossaries you would also expect to have at least one key per glossary entry so that you can then use @keyref on<keyword> or<term>.
In the context of an encyclopedia-type document you might have 10s of 1000s of keys.
Another recommended best practice is to use keys for references to graphics, so at least one key per graphic.
So yes, anything to make finding specific keys easier will be very helpful.
Cheers,
Eliot
On 9/28/11 3:56 AM, "Radu Coravu"<radu_coravu@sync.ro> wrote:
Hi Eliot,
This small improvement will probably be available in Oxygen 13.1 in a month or so. Oxygen 13.1 will also contain a button in the "Insert Topic Reference" dialog allowing for easily selecting keyrefs as you suggested in a previous email.
By the way, from your experience, are there usually many keys defined on a DITA Map? Can there be hundreds of keys defined for example? Would a "quick find" search field help in the same dialog if it would be available?
Regards, Radu
Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com
On 9/27/2011 5:30 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
Good practice for DITA key names is to use a distinguishing prefix so that related keys sort together alphabetically.
I'm finding that the default width of the Insert Content Key Reference dialog is too narrow so that the keys are truncated before even the complete prefix is display. E.g., my keys are "action-handler-foo-bar" where "action-handler-" is the common prefix.
Suggest making the default width for the dialog at least twice the current default.
Cheers,
E.
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