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General Board / Re: Heading numbering (list levels) breaking when updating styles to stylesheet

« on: September 28, 2023, 03:28:16 am »

lol, this isn't good news, I have never got heading numbering to work consistently, or to remain working over upgrades.
The outcome, no numbered heading in our documents generated by EA, sorry.

The trick is to use the same numbered list override for all heading levels.

I've never used imported stylesheets from Word, but we managed to get it working correctly using a manually edited stylesheet.
(up until v15.2 that is. I'm still waiting on a bugfix for my docgen headers problem)

Geert

Thanks for the suggestion, I'lll see what overrides are assigned in my current stylesheet. I really don't understand how the overrides are initially assigned or how they work - I've tried to check overrides before and if I remember correctly not all overrides were available for selection for all heading numbers. But I'll give it another try now that I have a style sheet that works pretty well other than breaking nesting of headings!

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General Board / Heading numbering (list levels) breaking when updating styles to stylesheet

« on: September 21, 2023, 05:40:02 am »

I have a word stylesheet that defines a multi-level list that I use for heading numbering. I imported the stylesheet RTF into an EA stylsheet, and use it in all my document templates (by selecting "update styles"). I have a template that pulls in 5-6 levels of headings and content as a subsection in a larger document. When I first pull the information  in, or when I update the dynamic content it does the heading numbering correctly, based on how packages/elements are nested. But the whole section starts at 1.1.1, vs. 3.1.1 where I need it to start based on where I dragged the package/template into my custom document.

To get the section to start at 3.1.1, I use the "update styles" feature within the larger document and point to my stylesheet. But when I do this it is breaking some of the heading assignments created initially. For example, content that is correctly at heading level 5 when dynamic content is updated is getting reassigned to heading 2, and it's renumbering it as if it were heading 2 (so it's no longer showing correct nesting in the document).

I have been struggling for days with which formatting I should update in word and import, vs. what formatting I need to fix in the EA version stylesheet, but I haven't been able to get past this issue. I still do not understand why EA is assigning list overrides to headings and other sections in my document when I am pointing to a stylesheet that was a direct import from word. Any tips you have would be appreciated!

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General Board / Re: Concurrent installation of EA Ultimate and EA-lite

« on: May 05, 2023, 07:59:07 am »

Replying to acknowledge the responses. I believe EA has changed how they deploy their required files in version 16 and it no longer works to install the different packages in different paths. We are working around this by installing EA-lite on an app server, and whoever needs the full EA will have it installed locally.

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General Board / Concurrent installation of EA Ultimate and EA-lite

« on: January 27, 2023, 08:11:11 am »

Can I install the full version of EA and EA-lite on the same machine? Our small team currently owns 1 ultimate edition floating license, and I'd like to be able to share it and let someone else model while I review the model in EA-lite. I read about a workaround of installing in different directories with older versions, but that doesn't appear to work with 16.1. When I install EA-lite it removes my fully licensed version (or at least moves files to the directory for EA-lite).