Hiding and unhiding inline content

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.
The file has an XML element that can contain text, such as a paragraph, a title, or a table caption.

Your need

You need to prevent some inline content, such as text, from being published.

The possibility

It is possible to hide and unhide inline content, such as single inline words, in a file without applying conditions. The content set to hidden is not visible in the final published publication. Hiding content is useful in cases you need to publish a draft version for someone else, and you do not want to show content that is not ready for others.

About this task

What you will learn

This instruction tells you how to hide and unhide inline content such as text.

The result

This is the content before hiding some text:

This is the content after hiding some text:

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 hide and unhide inline content such as text.

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. In your file content, select inline content that you want to hide, for example, text in a paragraph element.

3. Press Ctrl+H.

A format element is created, and the selected text is marked as hidden (gray background color).

The format element has an attribute hidden with the value hidden.

4. To unhide the hidden text, do as follows:

1. Select the content in the format element.

2. Press Ctrl+H.

The format element is removed, and the text is not hidden anymore.

Alternative procedure: Hiding and unhiding inline content using the toolbar

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. In your file content, select inline content that you want to hide, for example, text in a paragraph element.

3. Right-click the selected text.

A toolbar opens.

4. On the toolbar, click Hide.

A format element is created, and the selected text is marked as hidden (gray background color).

The format element has an attribute hidden with the value hidden.

5. To unhide the hidden text, do as follows:

1. Right-click the format element.

A pop-up list opens.

2. In the pop-up list, select the format icon.

The format toolbar opens.

3. On the format toolbar, click Unwrap.

The format element is removed, and the text is not hidden anymore.