Enabling Warnings and Cautions acknowledgment

You can configure LiveContent S1000D to display Warnings and Cautions in a pop-up dialog, requiring the user to click OK to acknowledge the message and dismiss the dialog before proceeding. The user's acknowledgment of the Warning or Caution is then recorded in the Audit Trail log.

About this task

By default, this functionality is disabled. Edit the wietmsd_prg.xml file as follows to enable it for a collection.

Procedure

  1. Open the following file for editing.
    ...LiveContentData\collections\collection\wietmsd_prg.xml

    where collection is the name of the collection for which you want to enable Cautions and Warnings acknowledgment.

  2. Locate the following configuration item.
    <configitem name="ietm.disable_wcn">
  3. Change the value of the property to 0 to display Warnings and Cautions in a pop-up dialog.
  4. Save and close the wietmsd_prg.xml file.
  5. Restart LiveContent S1000D to implement the changes within the collection.

Results

Warnings and Cautions will be displayed in a pop-up dialog, requiring the user to click an OK button to dismiss the dialog before proceeding. The ctrl.acknowledge.popup.ok language resource can be added to language resource (resources-xx.prop) files, enabling you to localize the text of the OK button.