Selecting 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 select some content in your file.

The possibility

It is possible to select content in a file in different ways. It is possible to:

What you will learn

This instruction tells you how to select content in a file.

The result

This is the file content before making a selection:

This is the file content after making a selection:

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This is the file content before selecting an element:

This is the file content after selecting the list element:

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Overall steps

Open the file, then select element content or one or several elements (including content) in the file.

Time

Less than 1 minute

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

2. In your file content, select either:

Alternative procedure: Selecting an element from a pop-up list

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, right-click an element that you want to select.

3. A pop-up list opens.

4. In the pop-up list, select the element icon.

A toolbar opens.

You can now do an operation on the selected element and its content using the functions on the toolbar.