easyDITA 19.1 Release Details

easyDITA 19.1 brings some new and exciting enhancements to the topic editor, Permissions interface, and Groups interface, along with other fixes and improvements.

Release Date

October 19th, 2019

Topic Editor

The improved topic editor provides enhanced user experience along with a number of copy/paste feature fixes.

New and Improved

• You can now copy formatted text and paste it as plain text into the topic editor.

  
  

• The topic editor automatically replaces unsupported quotation marks in the content that you paste.

• Added a pop up dialog so that when trying to insert a table from the toolbar at an invalid location, easyDITA will alert you and give you an option to insert it at the next valid location.

  
  

Copy and Paste Fixes

• Fixed an issue with copying and pasting content ending with a trademark element.

• Fixed issues with copying, cutting, and pasting cross-references.

• Fixed issues with copying and pasting content across section elements.

• Fixed minor issues with pasting text from PDF files.

• Content pasted from DOCX files and web pages is no longer misplaced.

• Text pasted from Google Docs™ is no longer automatically made bold.

• Pasting content from Google Docs™ doesn't result in validation errors now.

• Fixed issues with copying and pasting bold, underlined, and italicized text.

• Fixed issues with copying and pasting image elements.

• Fixed issues with copying and pasting content in code block elements.

• Fixed an issue with copying and pasting the resource ID element content.

• Fixed a bug preventing you from cutting multiple list item elements.

• Fixed a bug that added a new empty table cell when you pasted content to the table header.

Topic Editor Behavior Fixes

• When you remove an element in a topic, the topic editor doesn't move you to the top of the topic now.

• Fixed the Backspace key behavior in the topic editor.

• Fixed a bug preventing you from placing your cursor at the beginning of elements.

• Inserting a content reference by using the conref attribute in the Suggesting mode doesn't change the Suggesting mode to the Editing mode now.

• Fixed a bug preventing you from editing the attributes linked to taxonomy.

• Fixed a bug preventing you from saving an edited href attribute in the Attributes tab.

• When you click outside an image element, the Media Toolbar closes now.

• Dragging and dropping an image element works correctly now.

• Fixed a bug that created empty local links.

• Fixed the issues with editing the version release modification list element.

• Fixed an issue preventing you from choosing a map for a new key.

Source Editor

The improved source editor enables you to identify the XML code elements easier.

New and Improved

• Fixed pretty printing for equation lines and MathML elements.

  
  

Fixes

• Fixed pretty printing for the source editor.

Assignments

The improved Assignments interface makes the reviewing process even simpler.

New and Improved

• You can reopen resolved comments now.

  
  

• Reviewers are no longer allowed to accept, reject, and remove comments or suggestions submitted by other users.

• You are no longer able to edit an assignment that is closed or past its due date.

Fixes

• In the Suggesting mode, maps cannot be edited and topic elements removed now.

• When you open an assignment with an associated DITAVAL file, the topic editor correctly filters content now.

• Fixed the Add comment button behavior in Mozilla Firefox.

Content Library

The improved content library enables you to edit permissions and metadata for multiple resources and remembers the folder that you left off.

New and Improved

• You can bulk-edit permissions to resources now.

  
  

• You can bulk-edit resources metadata now.

  
  

• The content library remembers the folder that you left off when you switch between interfaces. For example, when you get back to the content library from another interface, such as the Dashboard interface, you are in the same content library folder that you left off.

Fixes

• Docked maps load properly when you refresh your browser.

• In the content library, the Publish button was replaced with the Output button to match the corresponding Output tab.

  
  

Localization Manager

The improved localization manager enables you to upload translated versions of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs).

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented you from uploading a translated version of an SVG file.

Groups and Permissions

The improved Groups interface and Permissions interface provide enhanced user experience. Now you can easily manage permissions to folders, maps, and files. For more information, see Read and Write Permissions.

New and Improved

• Improved the Groups interface by redesigning the window that enables you to add or edit groups. Now, you can filter the list by using the Filters field. You can also select every user by checking the checkbox at the top of the list.

  
  

• Improved the Permissions interface. You can now bulk-edit permissions on a very granular level by defining access rules for specific groups of users and including or excluding subfolders, map dependencies, and resource-only files appended to a map.

  
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Groups interface security.

• The Activity interface doesn't show files that you don't have permissions to read.

• The topic editor shows placeholders for files that you don't have permissions to read in the map tree.

• You can no longer create a branch from a map or a release a map if the map contains files that you don't have permissions to read.

• If you publish a map that contains files that you don't have permissions to read, in the output, the read-denied content is replaced with information about restricted access.

Users Interface

The improved Users interface enables you to easily manage the easyDITA user accounts.

New and Improved

• Improved the Users interface.

  
  

• You can select multiple users and filter users now.

• You can deactivate a user by right-clicking the user in the list.

  
  

Publishing Interface

The improved Publishing Interface enables you to exercise more control over webhook notifications.

New and Improved

• Added a capability to manually trigger the webhook notification publishing for finished publishes.

  
  

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented past publishes from loading in the Output tab.

• Key Assets load properly for every publish now.

  
  

Search

The improved Search bar provides search suggestions in every easyDITA interface now.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented you from seeing search suggestions in the Dashboard interface.