Setting user-specific attribute values

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 created an element, for example, a paragraph or an ordered or unordered list.

Your need

You need to set an attribute, other than the available standard attributes, on an element in your file.

The possibility

You can add custom metadata to an element to process it in some specific way. Apart from the standard XML attributes in Skribenta, it is possible to set user-specific attribute values using the data attribute.

About this task

What you will learn

This instruction tells you how to set user-specific attributes on an element.

The result

This is the All tab on the Attributes tab before setting attributes on a paragraph element.

This is the All tab on the Attributes tab after setting user-specific attributes on a paragraph element.

Overall steps

Open the file, then set user-specific attributes using the data attribute on an element in your file content.

Time

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, right-click the element that you want to set user-specific attributes on.

A pop-up list opens.

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

A toolbar opens.

4. On the toolbar, click Attributes > All.

The All tab opens.

5. In the Name box, type data, or click the Name arrow and select the data attribute from the list.

6. In the Value box, type your user-specific attribute and attribute value separated by a colon character.

7. Click Add.

8. If you want to set more user-specific attributes, repeat step 5 to 7.

9. Click Apply.

The user-specific attributes are set on the element via the data attribute.

In the XML code, the user-specific attributes are defined in the data attribute and separated by a semicolon character.

Alternative procedure: Setting user-specific attribute values using a keyboard shortcut

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, put the caret inside the element that you want to set an attribute value on.

3. Press Ctrl+Shift+Down Arrow.

The All tab on the element Attributes toolbar opens.

4. In the Name box, type data, or click the Name arrow and select the data attribute from the list.

5. In the Value box, type your user-specific attribute and attribute value separated by a colon character.

6. Click Add.

7. If you want to set more user-specific attributes, repeat step 4 to 6.

8. Click Apply.

The user-specific attributes are set on the element via the data attribute.

In the XML code, the user-specific attributes are defined in the data attribute and separated by a semicolon character.