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Configuring LiveContent Preview to use custom styles

How to configure LiveContent Preview to use your custom LiveContent S1000D styles.

Before you begin

  • The Contenta Web server must be installed.
  • You must have created custom styles for LiveContent S1000D .

About this task

When you install Contenta S1000D, default styles for LiveContent Preview are installed to a specific location on the Contenta Web server. If you want to use customized styles, you must configure LiveContent Preview to access them.

Procedure

  1. On the Contenta Web, at a command prompt, navigate to the following folder:
    Contenta_home/web/cw_common/custom/S1000D_CVPreview/styles
  2. In the existing styles folder, create a new folder for your custom styles.
  3. Copy the default LiveContent Preview styles from the Contenta_home/web/cw_common/custom/S1000D_CVPreview/styles/s1000d folder to the folder you just created.
  4. Copy your custom style files into the new folder, overwriting the default style files as desired.
  5. In Contenta Explorer, select Tools > Options > Tool Preferences to access AppData.
  6. In AppData, navigate to {Global} > Settings > CaS_LCPreview.
  7. Change the stylesFolder setting from s1000d to the name of the new folder that contains your custom styles.