Edit topics in the Editor
The Editor comes with a range of editing features that let you easily create or modify your topic files. Broadly, you would perform the following steps to edit a topic in the Editor.
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To make changes in your topic, click within the text boundary of the required element and start making edits.
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To insert a specific element, move your cursor at the end of the element after which you want to insert the new element and select the required element icon in the toolbar. You can also use the keyboard shortcut
Alt+1to invoke the Insert Element popup.A list of element appears that can be used in the topic. Experience Manager Guides does an intelligent placing of elements as per their valid location in the topic.
NOTEYou can also choose which icon to be displayed in the toolbar by configuring theui_config.jsonfile located at -/etc/designs/fmdita/clientlibs/xmleditor/. For more information about customizing features, contact your system administrator. -
Once you have finished editing your document, select Save all.
NOTEIf you do not wish to commit changes into Adobe Experience Manager repository, select Close, and then select Close without saving in the Unsaved Changes dialog.
Partial selection of content across elements
Experience Manager Guides also allows you to select content across elements. After selecting the content, you can perform the following operations:
- Formatting and deletion: Make the selected content bold, italics, underline, or even delete the selected content. The content from the valid open tags is then merged and appears under a single element. For example, you can select the content within a paragraph and extend the selection to another paragraph. Then, if you make the selected content bold, all the bold content from the open tags is merged and appears under a single paragraph element.
Similarly, if you delete the selected content, the remaining content after the deletion in the open tags is merged.
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Surround the content with a valid element: Perform the following steps to wrap the content with a valid element:
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Select the content within an element.
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Select an element from the dialog box. The selected content is wrapped under that element. For example, if you select the content in a paragraph and then choose the
<note>element from the Insert element dialog box, the selected content appears under a note.
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Refresh browser while editing the files
Experience Manager Guides provides the support to refresh the browser while you edit your content in the Editor. This feature helps you continue editing content in case you encounter an application error while working. If you hit the browser refresh while one or more files with unsaved changes are opened for editing, you are warned that the unsaved changes may be lost. You are given an option to cancel the refresh operation and save your files to preserve your changes.
Even on refreshing the browser, the views of the left and the right panel are retained in the Editor. Experience Manager Guides restores the last saved state of the files opened in the Editor when you refresh the browser. For example, the files opened in the Repository panel are opened again. The map panel is retained along with the previously opened map.
The active topic or DITA map is reopened in the content editing area.
The right panel is also reopened and displays the same view as before the refresh.
Working copy indicator
Experience Manager Guides provides the working copy indicator which shows whether the current (working copy) of file is in sync with the saved version or not. If you have made any changes to your current copy and have not saved your file, a * mark appears along with the title on the topic’s file tab. This indicator acts as a reminder to save your changes and disappears when you save your file.
Experience Manager Guides also indicates if the last saved (working) copy of the file is in sync with the saved version or not. If you have some unsaved changes between the working copy and the last saved version, a * mark appears along with the version information shown in the right top corner of the topic’s file tab. This indicator acts as a reminder to save and create a version from your current (working) copy of the file.
