Writer instructions

Purpose

Use this page to display a banner announcement on each page of the space. Create the Space announcements page in the master space, outside of the Home branch.

You can version the Space announcements page to enable different banners to be published into different target spaces, however, the banner that is displayed in the versioned (master) space itself only displays the most recently-published banner.  If you find errors in the banner area of your versioned space and you are sure the Space announcements page is set up correctly, try publishing the page to the same space.

For more information, see Space-announcements-banners.

Removing

When an announcement is no longer needed, remove the BMC Space Banner macro.

Translation

Localized spaces using the L10n Viewport theme must change the name of this page to Space announcements l10n.  See Configuring-the-Scroll-ViewPort-theme-for-translated-spaces.

Usage

Choose one or none of the following BMC Space Banner macros.

If your space requires another kind of announcement, you can use this page in coordination with your team lead and editors.

When should I use a space announcement banner?

Use the space organization announcement after you change the content from a book-like organization (such as User Manual, Configuration Manual, and Administration Guide) to the product model.

Use the latest version announcement to push traffic to later versions. You do not need to add this to every previous version, but if you have a specific reason that you want users to be aware—for example, Google searches show content for an obsolete version—use the banner to help users find a relevant version.

When an announcement is no longer needed, remove the BMC Space Banner macro.

Space announcement This documentation space provides the same content as before, but the organization of the content has changed. The content is now organized based on logical branches instead of legacy book titles. We hope that the new structure will help you quickly find the content that you need.

Extract criteria


File-AID/RDX enables you to control the scope and depth of the extract process by allowing you to define extract criteria. Extract criteria includes information about following criteria:

  • Navigation controls
  • Sampling controls
  • Selection criteria

Navigation controls apply to the list of relationships defined for the driving object. They determine how File-AID/RDX chases the relationships and whether or not to extract direct dependents, parent records, sibling or indirect dependents. The navigation controls can be set globally or individually. You also can exclude objects or relationships manually from the extract to further define the scope of the extract.

Sampling controls can limit the number of records to be extracted from each relationship or object, specify the number of records to skip, or specify the maximum number of records to extract from all objects. The controls also include cycle count and what action to take when the maximum counts have been reached.

Selection criteria can be specified for any object in the extract. It consists of conditions that individual columns or fields must meet. File-AID/RDX extracts only records that contain values that meet these conditions. For complex extracts, you can define multiple selection criteria sets.

You can save extract criteria in an extract request file so you can use it at a later time. For more information about the Extract Request File, see Extract/Load/Delete Request File and File-AID/RDX Extract/Load/Delete Request File.

Important

When using an extract criteria file created with an earlier release of File-AID/RDX than Release 4.0, File-AID/RDX will set the navigation and sampling controls to approximate the extract method (OPTIMUM, STANDARD, MOST, or DETAILED). However, the extract results may differ as there are also differences in sampling controls. The option to extract records outside the selection criteria to satisfy AR/RI relationships is no longer supported. Selection criteria is now always enforced in a downward direction.

 

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