Customizing rule settings

Ricoh Accessibility Designer lets you customize your rules and create rule templates for better management of your data. You can define the default properties of rules when they are created and inserted into the project in the Rule Settings section.
To customize your rules and create rule templates:
  1. 1. Click the Edit tab from the Menu bar.
  2. Go to Application settings.

  3. Under the Rule Settings tab, you can create your templates by clicking +Create template.
    The newly created template is displayed in the Templates column.
  4. To edit an existing template, select the template and click . You can rename templates and customize rule properties from the corresponding tables, then click and SAVE.
  5. To ease your user experience, select a template from Templates, click and enable the Set as default the last "Export As" values when creating new rules property as a rule preference. Each newly created rule will have the Export As values for X, Y, Width, Height copied from the most recent rule created with this setting enabled.
    To revert to initial rule settings for a template, select the template and click Restore to default and SAVE. All the rule properties are set to the default values.
  6. To enable a template, right-click the template and select Apply from the menu.
    appears in front of your template. This means that your template is active. You cannot use several templates simultaneously. When you create a new rule, it will be attributed with the properties from the applied template.
  7. To duplicate or delete a template, right-click the template and select Duplicate or Delete from the menu, then click SAVE.
    All your templates are saved in C:\ProgramData\Rad\rules as XML files. For example: Rules (default).xml.
    To see the active template, go to rules_config.xml in C:\ProgramData\Rad.

    Note: When you create a new rule, the default values for x,y,width height are overwritten in rule settings. When you create a table with table builder, the rule properties x,y,width, height and export as: x,y,width height from the children rules are overwritten by the algorithm that defines the table.

Parent topic: Styling