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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks "An ACL Tool to Find and Replace XML Attribute Values" -
#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: Todd has built dozens of Arbortext-based tools to improve the lives of his users at Wolters Kluwer.
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: Wolters Kluwer - leader in global services and publishing - using Arbortext and Documentum
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: my dream is to have the very best Arbortext implementation in the universe
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: we build tools for our users, we want to increase efficiency and decrease errors
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: We want to make it easy for users to do the right thing and very hard to do the wrong thing
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: the most important thing in my life is when our Editors come up and say, "it doesn't do this, we need it to.."
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: We needed a tool that would globally find and replace attribute values
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: our Editors didn't want to have to learn regular expression syntax but had need for very specific find/replace
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: we have an ongoing conversation with our users and what they want to do
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: tools like this are a good idea for any kind of organization that uses XML
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: people's eyes glaze over when you say XML, so anything that makes it easier to do what they want to do is good
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: I new I had to have code that interacted with the open file and had a complex GUI initiating dynamic behavior
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: we wanted a tool that worked with any DTD or schema and had no business logic in it at all. And it does!
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: I took advantage of ACL Designer, a GUI designer for Arbortext
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: ACL Designer was built on Galaxy, complete with springs and struts. Pretty steep learning curve, but visual
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: UI: Act 1 is on left, Act 2 in middle, Act 3 on right, finale at the bottom.. (in western UI design)
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: I like to put something at top that shows the effect of their actions, at the bottom the action buttons
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: took me 2 months to build it, but we had the requirements nailed down and a design that the users accepted
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: XUI editor now comes OOTB with Arbortext and it will show you the dialog dynamically
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: We say "AE" for "Arbortext Editor". I can just type "AE" to launch the editor on my desktop
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: "Editor" is a job title in my company
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: we have arbortext customized for WK, buttons that we designed ourselves to launch tools we built into AE
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: To prevent people from accidentally wrecking content, we passworded the global find and replace tool
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: changing the value of the 'pub' attribute on all 'xref' elements -- just use our global find/replace tool
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: Action can be limited to specific elements, attributes, and values, in an easy UI for our Editing team to use
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: They were concerned about accidents, so we built in several layers of "undo"
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: Now we're getting into some ACL code. Here's how to build a custom dialog box in Arbortext Editor
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: Step by step tutorial on building custom tools in Arbortext. It's easy to do, anyone can do it. Very powerful
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: Epic is the former name of Arbortext Editor. Before that, it was called "Adept" (Expert!)
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: in your code, you need an object that is the dialog itself, you can identify, use, and interact with it
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: Here's how to read the ACL functions and understand how to use them...
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: the next thing you want to do is to have a function for adding callbacks for your controls.
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: a mistake I made early on was adding the "()" but it just needs the function name.
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: dialog item callback is something ACL hands you. When you specify it, it knows what event happened to call it
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: list of elements.. get a callback for each control.
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: Sample Callback function code
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: there was a lot of fear for this, so we added "scary" warning boxes
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: ACL (Arbortext Command Language) is great for talking to XML
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: ACL lets you do things in the open file and interact with it, ask the DTD questions, and talk to the markup
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: here's some sample code. You can find out all kinds of stuff by just asking the DTD
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: I'm filtering out the Documentum namespace attributes, barring changes to those by the users
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: This is a tree walker. (sample code)
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: Here's another little trick: create little functions to do what they do to simplify and encapsulate actions
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: XML ACL sample code to modify markup in the live document in Arbortext Editor
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: I wanted to give you the tools you'll need to do it yourself. You can get a dialog like this!
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: It's a pretty clever little pile of code, dialog boxes that keep you awake when you do things in them
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: you want it to do more than say "uh huh" like people reacting to you
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: This saves people a lot of time -- 200 changes by hand? or hiring someone to write a script? do it on the fly!
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: Learn ACL, make good code and good interfaces, and you will have... Smooth Sailing!
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: If you have an application, and it has an API, then use it! You'll be in line with the company developing it
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#arbortext #ptcuser T.Hicks: I went to Ann Arbor for ACL training as well as using the documentation
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