New features and enhancements in SDL Contenta S1000D 5.8
This section lists features and enhancements that were introduced in SDL Contenta S1000D 5.8.
64-bit Contenta S1000D
Contenta Web security updates to allow for no applet
S1000D Upload Content tool
Contenta S1000D 5.8 includes a new S1000D Upload Content tool for Contenta Web and Contenta Explorer. The new tool provides an improved user interface and improves support for uploading large batches of files to your SDL Contenta S1000D CSDB. The new Upload Content tool uploads only content files to the CSDB. The Upload tool delivered in previous versions has been modified to upload only CSV codes, and has been renamed S1000D Upload Codes.
- Validation of XML files to confirm they are well-formed and not already in the CSDB
- Reporting on files not uploaded because they are too large or of an unsupported file type
- Downloading files that cannot be uploaded
- Ability to monitor the upload in real-time via the Upload Content window or later via log files
- Access to information about prior uploads via a Prior Uploads button, which displays a window allowing you to display and delete log files for all previous uploads
- Improved upload statistical information
S1000D Upload Content uses parallel processing to enhance performance when uploading a large number of files. New registry settings allow you to configure S1000D Upload Content to optimize parallel processing.
In addition, the S1000D Upload Content tool has been enhanced to support pre-2.2 S1000D issues. For more information about support for these additional issues, refer to the Support for legacy S1000D spec issues section later in this topic.
New Contenta Manage Internal References tool
Contenta S1000D 5.8 introduces the new Contenta Manage Internal References tool for Arbortext Editor, which streamlines the process of creating internal references within a DM to elements in the DM (such as figures, warnings, and tables). The tool can be configured to launch automatically when you use the Arbortext menu () to insert an <xref> element (S1000D Issue 3.0 or earlier) or an <internalRef> element (Issue 4.0 or later). Alternatively, you can launch the tool manually by selecting .
The tool generates the required markup and assigns an element ID to the reference target (if one does not already exist).
New Contenta Hotspot Manager tool
Contenta S1000D 5.8 introduces the new Contenta Hotspot Manager tool for Arbortext Editor, which streamlines the process of linking hotspots in a CGM or SVG graphic to text elements in the DM. You launch the tool using the new Hotspot Manager item on the Contenta menu in Arbortext Editor.
For more information about setting up and using this enhancement, see Creating hotspot links in Arbortext Editor .
Support for legacy S1000D Issues
Contenta S1000D now supports legacy S1000D Issues 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.9, 2.0, and 2.1. Support for Issue 1.6 and 1.7 DMs includes support for both the Aircraft Ground Equipment (AGE) and Air Vehicle, Engines, and Equipment (AVEE) schemas, which were merged in subsequent issues. To use AGE DMs, several AppData keys, representing AGE-specific Document Types, have been added. For details, refer to the Contenta S1000D database upgrade changes section at the end of this topic. LiveContent S1000D 5.8 does not support AGE DMs.
Issue 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.8.1, and 1.9 SGML files are converted into XML before being uploaded to the CSDB, and Issue 1.x XML files may optionally be converted back to SGML during DDN Export.
For more information about this enhancement, see Contenta S1000D support for legacy S1000D Issues .
Enhanced CSS sample styles and updated XSL files for XPP Publish
CSS styles can now be used as starting point XPP styles for customers who publish S1000D Issue 4.0 and later content from Contenta S1000D to XPP for PDF output. Additional XML tags have been styled, CSS has been normalized, style issues have been fixed, and CSS rules have been organized into logical categories.
An issue with table numbering that was introduced with a newer version of XSL has also been fixed. Updated XSL files are available with both the XPP proprietary and CSS style library zip files delivered with Contenta S1000D. Extract the appropriate zip file as described in the following.
- Navigate to the S1000D_samples/xpp/ subdirectory of the Contenta home directory on the Contenta Web server.
- Copy s1kdXppCssStyles.zip from the Contenta Web server to the sd_liz subdirectory of the XPP home directory on the XPP server, and extract its contents to a directory named Ls1kd_css or to the directory that contains your custom XPP style library.
- Navigate to the S1000D_samples/xpp/ subdirectory of the Contenta home directory on the Contenta Web server.
- Copy s100dstyles.zip from the Contenta Web server to the sd_liz subdirectory of the XPP home directory on the XPP server, and extract its contents to a directory named Ls1000d or to the directory that contains your custom XPP style library.
Enhanced XPP Publish handling of non-displayed Data Modules
Added Issue 4.2 support to SDL S1000D Foundation Suite
The SDL S1000D Foundation Suite has been updated to generate Issue 4.2 modules. The S1000D Foundation Suite is a separate product from Contenta S1000D that generates initial data modules (DMs) that can be uploaded into a Contenta S1000D CSDB. It simplifies the process of beginning a new Issue 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.1, or 4.2 S1000D project by creating all the starting-point data modules required for a new S1000D project, effectively defining the structure of the project.
For further information about this enhancement, refer to Using the SDL S1000D Foundation Suite .
Support for VDS multimedia files
Contenta S1000D databases and tools have been enhanced to support SAP Visual Data Stream (VDS) multimedia files. If your content will include VDS multimedia files, add VDS to the hyphen-delimited list of multimedia object types in the multimediaObjects AppData setting under the path.In addition, to enable search of VDS files, add VDS to the hyphen-delimited list of object types available for Advanced Search in the cw_searchObjectTypes AppData setting under the path.
Support for SCORM runtime files: FLA, CSS, JS
Contenta S1000D databases and tools have been enhanced to support FLA multimedia files that, in conjunction with CSS and JS files, may comprise SCORM runtime files. SDL is providing pass-through support so that, for example, you can publish a publication containing SCORM runtime files to the file system and create a .zip file for delivery to a SCORM system.If your content will include FLA multimedia files, add FLA to the hyphen-delimited list of multimedia object types in the multimediaObjects AppData setting under the path.
In addition, to enable search of FLA files, add FLA to the hyphen-delimited list of object types available for Advanced Search in the cw_searchObjectTypes AppData setting under the path.
To enable search of CSS and JavaScript files, add the values CSS and JS to the hyphen-delimited list of object types available for Advanced Search in the cw_searchObjectTypes AppData setting.
Application upgrade information
Contenta S1000D database upgrade changes
- The following AGE-specific AppData keys have been added under .
- descript_age
- proced_age
- schedul_age
The keys and values that exist under all document types to facilitate Checkout, Checkin, and Edit have been added under these keys.
- A new AppData value is added under the key:
enableManageInternalReferencesOnInsert, set to no by default. - A new AppData value is added under the key:
bytesPerRequestspecifies (in bytes) the size of data chunks to be transferred when uploading large files. The default for this new value is 104857600. - The following new object types are created, based on the Graphic object type.
- VDS
- The MIME Type property sheet field for VDS objects has been set to application/vds.
- The mimetypeMappings AppData setting has been updated to add a Name/Value pair with Name set to application/vds and Value set to .vds.
- FLA
- The MIME Type property sheet field for FLA objects has been set to application/octet-stream.
- The mimetypeMappings AppData setting has been updated to add a Name/Value pair with Name set to application/octet-stream and Value set to .fla.
- CSS
- The MIME Type property sheet field for CSS objects has been set to text/css.
- JS
- The MIME Type property sheet field for JS objects has been set to application/javascript.
- The mimetypeMappings AppData setting has been updated to add a Name/Value pair with Name set to application/javascript and Value set to .js, and to remove the obsolete Name/Value pair with Name set to application/x-javascript and Value set to .js.
- VDS
- The S1000D Upload Content tool is added to Configuration, Project, and ContentRoutingProject objects in Contenta Web and Contenta Explorer, and added to SysAdmin and ProjMan toolboxes.
- The S1000D Upload tool is removed from SysAdmin and ProjMan toolboxes. This tool has been replaced by the S1000D Upload Content tool.
- The following indexes were added to the linkends database table:
linkends_4andlinkends_5.
For customers upgrading from Contenta S1000D version 5.6, there is no Contenta core database upgrade program; customers upgrading from previous versions must run the Contenta upgrade_56 database program before running the Contenta S1000D upgrade_S1000D_58.pl database program to upgrade their Contenta S1000D databases.