Setting the document design preferences

You can synchronize the document specification with the current template, change the way that the palette works in the template, and use schema annotation for display.

Procedure

  1. Click Window > Preferences > RPE > Document Design.
  2. For the Template Version options for new templates:
    • Select Ask user to be prompted every time that a template is opened with the following window:

      Select template version window

    • Select Use a specific template version to choose which version is to be used every time that a template is open and suppress the prompt.
    1. If you select Use a specific template version, enter the number for the version selection:
      • 1: Use the functionality from Rational® Publishing Engine 1.1.2.2 and earlier and not the additional functionality introduced in Rational Publishing Engine 1.2.
      • 2: Use the additional functionality introduced in Rational Publishing Engine 1.2.
  3. For the RPE Editor page width, choose a width for the elements in the template content editor. This width does not affect the size of the editor itself.
    • Select Default (automatic) to retain the default width of 1200 pixels.
    • Select Custom (in pixels) to choose your own value.
    1. If you select Custom, enter a value in pixels.
  4. For Keep Document Specification synchronized with the current Template?, select Yes or No. The default selection is Yes. For more information about how this synchronization works, see Managing synchronization.
  5. For Keep current palette tool selected after insertion in Template?, select one of the following options:
    • Yes: After you click an element in the Palette view, release the mouse, and then place the element in the template content editor, the element continues to be selected. With the element still selected, you can place the element more than one time without returning to the Palette view. You must click Select in the Palette view to release the element from your cursor.
    • No: After you click an element in the Palette view, release the mouse, and then place the element in the template content editor, the element does not continue to be selected. You must return to the Palette view to place another element.

    The default selection is Yes.

  6. For Use Schema annotations for display, select one of the following options:
    • Yes: Display names are used for the names of the queries and attributes in the data source schema.
    • No: Display names are not used for the names of the queries and attributes in the data source schema.

    The default selection is Yes. In some data source schema, the only discernible difference between these selections in the capitalization of the first letter in each query or attribute name.

  7. For Show template element content in Outline window, select Yes or No. The default selection is Yes.
  8. V1.2.1.1: For Outline view content length, select one of the following options:
    • Default: The maximum length of elements in the Outline view is 70 characters.
    • Custom: The maximum length of elements in the Outline view is a value other than 70 characters.
    1. If you selected Custom, enter a number in characters. This preference does not affect the width of the Outline view pane; this preference affects only the display of the content attribute for an elements. The characters that are not displayed are represented with three periods (...). For example, if you set a custom value of 20 characters and the text for the content property of a text element was: This document includes organizational plans for the upcoming year.

      Then the text element in the Outline view displays as:

      Text element that displays This document includ... in the Outline view.

  9. For Studio template element padding, select one of the following options:
    • Default: The space between the element edge and its type in the template content editor is 3 pixels.
    • Custom: The space between the element edge and its type in the template content editor is a value other than 3 pixels.
    1. If you selected Custom, enter a number 2 - 99 in pixels. 2 - 10 is the suggested range that is acceptable for most computers.
  10. Select a color theme:
    • Simple: When you hover over an element to place another element inside it, host element background changes to blue to indicate that the element can be placed inside it. All other colors are the same as the Gray color theme.
    • Gray: When you hover over an element to place another element inside it, the host element background changes to gray to indicate that the element can be placed inside it. All other colors are the same as the Simple color theme.

    The default selection is Simple. When you select a color theme, it displays as active.

  11. Click OK to save the changes.

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