Enabling and disabling automatic element IDs

Background

Starting point

The procedure in this topic assumes Skribenta is installed and configured for normal operation, and:

You have logged into Skribenta.
You are assigned to one of the following user roles: content provider, technical writer or administrator.
You have selected the workspace you want to work in.
A content file or a configuration file is created in the workspace.
You have browsed to and opened the file in the Workspace view or the Publications view.
You have, for example, created a section or a table.

Your need

You need to put element IDs on elements in your file content to be able to create links to the elements.

The possibility

It is possible to let Skribenta generate element IDs automatically on certain elements (maintitle, section, table, figure wrapper and block wrapper), in content files and configuration files.

About this task

What you will learn

This instruction tells you how to generate element IDs automatically on elements in your content.

The result

This is the content before generating element IDs automatically:

This is the content after generating element IDs automatically:

In the shown images, the XML tags are visible. To show XML tags, see Turning XML element tags on or off.

Overall steps

Open the file, then make a setting in the document element to automatically generate element IDs on elements in your file content.

Time

Less than 1 minute

Procedure

In the shown images, the XML tags are visible. To show XML tags, see Turning XML element tags on or off.

1. Make sure that the step(s) in section "Starting point" (see section "Background" above) are performed.

2. Right-click in your file content.

A pop-up list opens.

3. In the pop-up list, select the document icon.

The document toolbar opens.

4. On the document toolbar, click Options.

The Options tab opens.

5. Select Automatic ids.

6. Click Apply.

7. Save the file.

Element IDs are automatically generated and are shown to the right of certain elements.

Automatic element IDs are set on the following elements:

maintitle
section
table
block wrapper
figure wrapper

To disable automatic element IDs, clear the Automatic ids checkbox.

Already generated element IDs are not removed.