New features and enhancements in SDL LiveContent S1000D 5.6
This section lists features and enhancements introduced in SDL LiveContent S1000D 5.6.
Redesigned desktop user interface
The LiveContent S1000D desktop user interface has been completely redesigned to incorporate enhancements previously made to the tablet UI, thus synchronizing the tablet and desktop interfaces.
Desktop and tablet UI Enhancements
- Generic Forms
Access to Generic Forms has been made simpler and easier.
- Preliminary Requirements
The Preliminary Requirements panel is now accessed using a button on the top navigation panel, allowing you to access Preliminary Requirement more easily and quickly.
- Screen Splitter
The bars separating the panels of the LiveContent S1000D user interface have been improved to make repositioning them by clicking and dragging easier and more responsive. In addition, the bars are now more easily customized, allowing you enhanced control of their default placement, width, and color.
HTTP compression
- Javascript
- JSON
- HTML
- XML
- CSS
- plain text
Server-side HTTP compression is applied only to content read directly from the server file system. Content generated dynamically (via API calls that include database content requests), transformed content, or similarly server-processed content is not compressed.
<ietm/> section of its associated wietmsd_prg.xml configuration file.
| Configuration item | Description |
|---|---|
send_compressed_content | By default, files are transmitted uncompressed; set this configuration item to 1 to enable compression. |
need_compress_content_file_type | Specify a comma-delimited list of the file extensions of types of content to be compressed. |
min_file_size_kb | Specify, in kilobytes, the minimum file size to be compressed. Files smaller than the size specified here are transmitted uncompressed. |
Improved and simplified UI customization and configuration
LiveContent S1000D has been redesigned to rely on a combination of HTML, XML, CSS, and Javascript configuration files, providing a streamlined method to control the display of the user interface. Control objects within the LiveContent S1000D UI (such as icons and buttons) are generated dynamically at runtime, getting their display attributes from resource files you can edit to customize their appearance and behavior.
Control objects can be defined with various states, such as whether a control is enabled, disabled, or highlighted. The state of a control is based on a set of predefined conditions. When a condition changes, the state of a UI control can change based on the new condition. For example, when moving from a procedure data module with graphics and preliminary requirements to a process data module, the states of the Next Step and Previous Step buttons can be changed from enabled to disabled.
For more information about configuring this functionality, see the topic, Customizing the LiveContent S1000D user interface in the Implementing LiveContent S1000D section of the SDL LiveContent S1000D documentation.
Support for SDI image conversion tool for transforming CGM graphics to SVG
LiveContent S1000D version 5.6 supports an SDI image conversion tool, providing an additional option for converting CGM graphics in your publications into Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. Converting from CGM to SVG results in images better compatible with all browsers supported by LiveContent S1000D across all supported platforms. As with earlier releases, LiveContent S1000D continues to support the Larson Software Technology Convert CGM to Vector image conversion tool.
CGM graphics replaced by SVG in sample data sets
Previously, the sample data delivered with LiveContent S1000D included CGM graphics. In this release, most of those graphics have been converted to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), a file type supported by all browsers and platforms supported by LiveContent S1000D. This enhancement allows you to view the sample graphics on any supported browser running on any supported platform.
Search results display enhancements
The new Title/DMCode (ABC/123) link allows you to toggle between the title view and document code view in SDL LiveContent S1000D full text and categorical search results:
In addition, a unique icon for each document type in the publication is now displayed in full text search results. The administrator can customize these icons. These enhancements better align the appearance and behavior of search with that of the table of contents.
Documentation enhancement
As of this release, SDL LiveContent S1000D documentation is available on the SDL Documentation Center at https://docs.sdl.com/SDLLCS5.7. This enhancement gives you access to the latest, most up-to-date information about installing, upgrading, managing, using, and extending LiveContent S1000D. The Documentation Center includes a downloadable .zip file (SDL LiveContent S1000D full documentation download as HTML) containing the full product documentation in HTML format, which you can provide to users without internet access.