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New features and enhancements in SDL LiveContent S1000D 5.5

This section lists features and enhancements introduced in SDL LiveContent S1000D 5.5.

Sharing illustrations, multimedia, and other media types

SDL LiveContent S1000D had stored illustrations, multimedia, and media types in a single figures folder, which is located within the IETP's publication hierarchy. To reuse the same illustrations across multiple IETPs, these illustrations had to be duplicated in every IETP that uses them. This is no longer the case. You can now share assets contained in multiple folders across multiple publications, so that all publications (inside the collection) may reuse assets stored in multiple folders.

See the configuration topic Sharing illustrations, multimedia, and other media types for more information.

Encrypting illustrations or other media types

You can secure assets (illustrations or other media types) across all publications in your IETP by specifying LiveContent configuration options. The LiveContent publishing process will then encrypt the illustrations using the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm.

See the configuration topic Encrypting illustrations or other media types for more information.

How LiveContent launches CD images

LiveContent S1000D has changed the default behavior for how it launches CD images. The new behavior is to immediately launch the IETP content from within the CD image. You can configure LiveContent to revert back to the old behavior, which is to prompt you to either install the CD image, or run the IETP within the CD image.

See Launching CD images for information on modifying the autoplay CD behavior.

Suppressing highlighting in search results

Search result matches appear highlighted in the main content window. If you find this distracting, you can click an icon in the toolbar to suppress highlighting from the search results. This icon acts as a toggle to show/hide highlighting.

See Removing search highlighting.

Customizing the TOC

You can configure LiveContent S1000D to display one of the following in the IETP's TOC Title:
  • infoname only
  • techname only
  • both techname and infoname

See Customizing the TOC for more information.

Support for Tablet Display

LiveContent S1000D now detects the device on which an IETP is viewed and applies an alternate skin to content displayed on a tablet or touch screen monitor. SDL delivers a skin named CarbonM to the skins folder, with screen elements and UI controls optimized for tablet display. To support this functionality, a new configuration option, app.skin_name_alt, has been added to the wietmsd.xml configuration file. By default, this option is set to CarbonM. You can customize the skin used for tablet display by copying and editing this skin or creating one of your own, and setting the value of app.skin_name_alt to the name of the desired skin.

See Customizable presentation layers for more information.

Process DM enhancement

Process data modules functionality has been enhanced to include support for multiple <preset> declarations within a dm node. Previously, processing would stop when a node containing more than one <preset> declaration was encountered.