Customizing the Type of Files to Display in the Show and Type Options

You can customize the type of files displayed in the Resource ManagerShow and Type options using the following persistent user preference:

For the optional doctype token, you can specify a specific document type base name (for example, ditabase or bookmap). If omitted, the preference applies for all document types that do not have an explicit preference value set.

For the filter token, you specify the option you want to customize. You can use either showFilter or typeFilter.

The value of the preference is a string identifying the file filter. In general, the following naming rules are used for filters:

• When the filter is for elements based on a class, the value is that base class — for example, topic/topic for All Topics.

• When the filter is the same as a file extension or tag name, the name is the named thing in lower case — for example, pdf, html, fig, or section.

• Otherwise, the name is the same as the English label for the filter in lower case with spaces replaced by underscore ( _ ) characters.

English Label	Value
All elements	all
All elements with IDs	all_elements_with_ids
All topics	topic/topic
Key definitions	key_definitions
Key references	key_references
fig	fig
table	table
li	li
fn	fn
section	section
Valid Elements	valid_elements
Valid elements with IDs	valid_elements_with_ids

English Label	Value
Topic	topic
Topic or Map	topic_or_map
Map	map
Image	image
PDF	pdf
HTML	html
Any	any
All Graphics	all_graphics
Bitmap Graphics (*.bmp)	bmp
Graphics Interchange Format (*.gif)	gif
IsoDraw Graphics (.iso, .isoz)	iso
JPEG File Interchange Format (*.jpg)	jpg
Portable Network Graphics (*.png)	png
ProductView Graphics (.edz, .pvz)	edz
Scalable Vector Graphics (*.svg)	svg
Tag Image File Format (*.tif)	tiff
Vector Graphics (.cgm, .eps)	cgm

For example, you could use the following ACL code to set the default Type option value to PDF for all tabs and document types:

You could use the following ACL code to set the default Type option value to Topic or Map on the Topic tab for DITA BookMaps:

You could use the following ACL code to set the default Show option value to All topics on the Link/Xref tab for all Learning and Training topics:

set_user_property(\
"com.arbortext.dita.rm.learningDitabase.link_xref_tab.showFilter", \
"topic/topic")