Application Layout Preferences

Oxygen XML Author offers various perspectives and views that you can arrange in a variety of layouts to suit your needs.

To configure the application layout options, open the Preferences dialog box (Options ⇒ Preferences) and go to Application Layout. The following options are available:

Select application layout

You can choose between the following three layouts:

• Default - Uses the default layout for all perspectives. Any modification of this layout (such as closing views, displaying views, or a new view arrangement) is saved on exit and reloaded at start-up.
• Predefined - Allows you to choose one of the predefined layouts:
  • Advanced - All views are displayed.
  • Author - An authoring-oriented layout that displays views such as Project, Archive Browser, DITA Maps Manager, Outline, Attributes, Model, and Elements.
  • Basic - Only the Project view and the Outline view are visible. Recommended when you edit XML content and you need maximum screen space.
  • Schema development - The Project, Component Dependencies, Resource Hierarchy/Dependencies, Outline, Palette, and Attributes views are displayed.
  • XQuery development - The Project, Outline, Transformation Scenarios, XSLT/XQuery input views are displayed.
  • XSLT development - The Project, Component Dependencies, Resource Hierarchy/Dependencies, Outline, Attributes, Model, XSLT/XQuery input, XPath Builder, and Transformation Scenarios views are displayed.
• Custom - Allows you to specify a custom layout to be used. You can save your preferred layout using Window ⇒ Export Layout, then enter the location of the saved layout file in this setting.

Reset layout at startup

When this option is enabled, Oxygen XML Author forgets any changes made to the layout during a session and reloads the default layout the next time it is started. This is useful when you want to keep a fixed layout from one session to another.

Remember layout changes for each project

When this options is enabled, Oxygen XML Author saves layouts individually for each project. When you switch projects, the layout you last used for that project is loaded automatically.

Allow detaching of editors from main window

When this options is enabled, you can drag and drop an editor window outside of the main screen. This is useful especially when you are using two monitors and you want to view files side by side.

Note

If the main screen is maximized, you cannot drag and drop an editor outside of it.

View tab placement

Specifies whether the View tabs are located at the top or bottom of the window.

Editor tab placement

Specifies whether the Editor tabs are located at the top or bottom of the window.

The changes you make to any layout are preserved between working sessions. The predefined layout files are saved in the preferences directory of Oxygen XML Author.

To watch our video demonstration about configuring the user interface of Oxygen XML Author, go to https://www.oxygenxml.com/demo/Dockable_Views.html.