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OMG! These Object Images are destroying my bubbles. Wanna fix?
Hi!
If images below are familar to you and you ever wondered how to fix it permanently, instead of asking content developers to manually remove Object Images from the SAP Enable Now bubbles, then I probably have a simple solution.
Hey, Object Images, pimp my bubbles!
Fix, that we’ll apply impacts only specified workarea, not a whole SAP Enable Now system, but we all know how to copy resources between workareas, right? 😉
First we need to locate Recording Dictionary resource called Simulations, start editing it, then right-click on it and select Open Folder. If you use custom Recording Dictionary as a default, then please start editing yours.
Second, locate file(s) with the language(s) you use in you projects in the opened folder. In my example I will change the file responsible for English-US language texts (trans_en_US.txt).
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Once you did that, please save and close your modified file(s) and return back to Producer. Because we made changes on the file system level, Producer doesn’t know that resource has been changed and new version must be uploaded to the server. To inform Producer about that, right click on the Simulations dictionary (in my case) and select Refresh Object
After that green pencil icon on your resource will change to the purple asterisk meaning that now Producer knows about your changes. Finish Editing, Save under a new version, enjoy bubbles free of Object images.
In case you want to add an object image manually in some cases, please do it using the Insert Placeholder command in the HTML Editor.
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Hi Anton,
Great - that was exactly what I was searching for!
Are there any known side-effects when doing this? Like issues with re-recording or WebAssistant usage? Everything else to keep in mind? Just wanted to doublecheck beforehand.
Many thanks in advance,
Sabrina
Hi Sabrina,
No side effects to my knowledge. It could be that after the SAP Enable Now upgrade you would need to repeat the changes you did to the standard dictionary as the old one could be overwritten. So, I would keep the customized version somewhere, to be able to quickly merge the changes into the new version of the dictionary if required.
Anton.
Thanks a lot, Anton.
Hi Anton,
Thanks for the great explanation!
I seem to be having a strange issue however - I followed your steps for the Simulation recording dictionary, and even tried using a custom one, but the change isn't taking effect when now recording.
I have checked and the change in the recording dictionary has saved, and it is set as the 'default', but when recording the object images ares till appearing.
Is there a setting I am missing to push this change to new recordings?
Please let me know if you have some insight.
Many thanks in Advance,
Andrew.
Hi Andrew,
No, you aren't missing anything. It should work, provided you updated the correct language file in the dictionary, then refreshed the object to upload these changes to the server.
I'm doing this operation almost for every customer, so it works with the latest upgrade as well.
Hi All - I spoke too soon.
The above fix worked once. I still getting the image.
Hi Jo,
because the Standard dictionary is overwritten after every SAP Enable Now upgrade, so you have to re-apply these changes to the new version of the dictionary.
There is of course an option to avoid this manual bi-annual updates: you can create a custom recording dictionary, BUT then you need to tell EVERY content developer to SELECT this CUSTOM dictionary BEFORE they start the recording. Unfortunately, the recording dictionary cannot be selected once and forever for all developers unlike other resources 🙁
Hi Anton,
What is strange is that I update the Standard dictionary yesterday, and today the images were showing again. I have updated again and will continue to test.
I have two more items for you.
This image is what I see:
What I want and what I had was below, the object image was disabled - how do I get this back to what I had before.
I will start a new question for my next topic. To prepare you. We had added properties to my Word template and you helped me create fields in Enable Now to populate the Word document. I would like to revisit that.