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
- Click .
- 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 Use a specific template version to
choose which version is to be used every time that a template is open
and suppress the prompt.
- 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.
- 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.
- If you select Custom, enter a
value in pixels.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- For Use colors to distinguish template elements ,
select Yes to enable color coding for different
elements. If you are currently editing a template, you must reopen
the template to load the colors.
- For Show template element content in Outline
window, select Yes or No. The default selection is Yes.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- If you selected Custom, enter
a number 2 - 99 in pixels. 2 - 10 is the suggested range
that is acceptable for most computers.
- 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.
- Click OK to save the changes.