Hi, There is a way to do this in the Author mode for DITA documents, but it doesn't have the exact granularity that you want. 1. In the Author mode (Document > Edit mode > Author) go to main menu > DITA > ID Options and add there the element name or class value for the elements that you want the ID for. In your case, for "uicontrol" you can add the class: "ui-d/uicontrol". You may want to remove other elements/class values found there if your selection intersects any of them. Regarding the ID Pattern, this allows 3 macros: - ${localName} which is the local name of the element (e.g. "uicontrol") - ${id} which is a compact unique identifier (e.g. "jjk_yfv_vh") - ${uuid} which is a universally unique identifier (e.g. "eb7b7697-e8ea-4156-814b-1db622155a97"). I recommend the compact unique identifier (e.g. "ui_${id}") 2. To assign the IDs, select the region that contains all the elements involved, right click on the selection and from the contextual menu use the "Generate IDs". Let me know if you need additional assistance. Regards, Adrian Adrian Buza oXygen XML Editor and Author Support Tel: +1-650-352-1250 ext.202 Fax: +40-251-461482 support@oxygenxml.com http://www.oxygenxml.com KAATMAN Matthew wrote:

Is there a way to highlight a group of tags and automatically assign IDs?

I have a collection of ~60 uicontrols in a topic.

<p><uicontrol>4</uicontrol></p> <p><uicontrol>12</uicontrol></p> <p><uicontrol>24</uicontrol></p> <p><uicontrol>60 Sec Prime</uicontrol></p> <p><uicontrol>1000</uicontrol></p> <p><uicontrol>A</uicontrol></p> <p><uicontrol>ABCDE</uicontrol></p> <p><uicontrol>Add</uicontrol></p>

I'd like to autoassign an id based on the text something like id="ui_4".

Maybe a prefix and suffix field that I could populate where prefix = ui_ and suffix = <text>.

Before I reinvent the wheel, I was curious if oxygen had a mechanism to do this.

I think I can do this fairly easily with a regex replace if that's the best method.

Thanks! Matt

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