New features and enhancements in SDL Contenta S1000D 5.4
This section lists features and enhancements that were introduced in SDL Contenta S1000D 5.4.
Extended XML Editor Support
In addition to the Arbortext Editor plug-in, SDL Contenta S1000D provides Check Out and Check In support for any XML editor that you want to use, when accessed from the Contenta Web client. These new web tools are called Check Out and Check In, and they are available for DMs, PMs, and SCPMs. Your Contenta Administrator should add these tools to the appropriate tool boxes, with a more intuitive name (such as XMLSpy Check Out instead of just Check Out).
Your Contenta administrator must also configure two AppData settings to specify the path of the XML editor, and whether to automatically launch it.
For more information, see Chapter 3, "Configuring SDL Contenta S1000D" in the SDL Contenta S1000D Installation and Upgrade Guide.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Support
SDL Contenta S1000D is fully supported and tested on the 64-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2012 platform. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is supported for new Contenta S1000D databases only. We do not provide migration for existing Contenta S1000D Oracle databases.
Web Services API
To aid application developers who develop and deploy custom tools, we provide the fully-documented RESTful Web Services API. With security in mind, this conversational API accepts the connection URL using the POST method, and it supports SSL and HTTPS.
See the SDL Contenta and Contenta S1000D Web Services Programmer's Guide for more information:
Pure Java API
SDL S1000D Foundation Suite
- An interface where you supply your site's boilerplate material (such as export information) for the identAndStatusSection of the Data Module (DM). This boilerplate material is included in each DM that you generate within the suite.
- Spec-defined information codes (and variants) to be used as a starting point.
- Standard Numbering System. You select one SNS from a list of available SNSs to be used as a starting point.
- An interface where you can build information sets (infocode + infoname + schema) for each publication.
- Interfaces to generate applicability data modules (ACT, PCT, CCT) for the S1000D project.
- An interface to generate DMs for the new S1000D project, where each DM is associated with one or more publications.
- Extensive.CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) topics for each interface.
After being created with the Foundation Suite, generated DMs can be uploaded and managed in Contenta S1000D.
Because the Foundation Suite requires that each generated DM be associated with one or more publications, it adds one or more systemBreakdownCode tags to the DM's identAndStatusSection. DMs are built one at a time, with you selecting or modifying the publication, SDC, export control (CAGE code), item location code, DMC, and DM title.
The SDL S1000D Foundation Suite is intended to be used by a single user, and it supports one S1000D project per S1000D issue (spec rev) per instance. Therefore, in a given instance of Foundation Suite you may only build data modules for one S1000D project, and in one spec rev. If you need to start up another S1000D project, you must re-install the Foundation Suite into a different location for the next project. If you are using Foundation Suite delivered with Contenta S1000D and you anticipate starting up more than one S1000D project, make a copy of the Contenta_home/encaps/S1000D/FoundationSuite folder before you begin using Foundation Suite.
Foundation Suite as a standalone product
The Foundation Suite is also available as a separate, purchasable, stand-alone option. If you are using the Foundation Suite as a standalone product (without Contenta S1000D), after you extract the program and double click on SFS.exe for the first time, you will be prompted to provide a Product Key. Contact SDL Customer Support, open a support ticket, and provide your Generator Key to obtain your Product Key.
- <FoundationSuite-installation-folder>/Sources/S1000D_4-0-1/XSD/Catalog
- <FoundationSuite-installation-folder>/Sources/S1000D_4-0-2/XSD/Catalog
- <FoundationSuite-installation-folder>/Sources/S1000D_4-1/XSD/Catalog
For tool usage information, click Help in Foundation Suite to access the online.CHM help file.
SLICwave LSAR Integration
| From Contenta S1000D | From SLICwave |
|---|---|
| With a DM open in Arbortext Editor, fetch its content section from the LSAR system | Notify a CSDB technical author via email that a DM is ready to release |
| Compare the XML of the DM being edited with the same DM in the LSAR system, allowing the user to copy and paste desired changes into the DM being edited (in Arbortext Editor) | Preview a DM |
| Notify the LSAR maintainer via email that a DM in the CSDB is ready to be released to the LSAR system | List ICNs in the CSDB |
| Display the LSAR audit report | Import ICNs from the CSDB into the LSAR system |
You access LSAR functions from the Arbortext Editor menu in Contenta Web. For more information, see the SDL Contenta S1000D/ISS SLICwave LSAR Integration Guide.
Contenta S1000D Database Upgrade Changes
- For SLICwave LSAR audit integration—added a database table to both the Oracle and SQL Server database schemas.
- For extended XML editor support—added Check In and Check Out tools, which are attached to DModule, PModule, and SCORMContentPackage object types. Also added AppData settings under ; they are named customS1000DEditorPath (value is empty for backwards compatibility) and launchCustomS1000DEditor (value is set to
nofor backwards compatibility).
dbimport the appropriate s1000d.dmp file, which is located at:
<Contenta_home>/S1000D_samples/databases/Contenta54_MSSQLServer_database<Contenta_home>/S1000D_samples/databases/Contenta54_Oracle_database
See the Upgrading an SDL Contenta S1000D Database topic in Chapter 2, "Upgrading Contenta S1000D" in the Contenta S1000D Installation and Upgrade Guide for more information on upgrading your database.
Accessing Product Documentation
- The Contenta Explorer and Contenta Web interfaces (click ).
- The SDL Contenta S1000D documentation—including an Acrobat Catalog search index—is available as a .zip download from the following FTP Site: ftp://SDLdoc2:ReadTheDoc@ftp.sct.sdl.com/download
Once you download the.zip file, and decompress it in a folder on your system, double-click search_contenta_s1000d in Acrobat Reader, and then search away.