Modifying the Referable-Content view

You can configure the Referable-Content view to display reusable elements from other topic types.

IXIASOFT CCMS provides a topic specialization—the referable-content topic type—that you can use to store the text you plan to use in multiple topics. By default, the Referable-Content view only displays elements that have the id attribute set and are contained in a referable-content topic. If you want to reuse elements from other topic types and make them searchable in the Referable-Content view, you need to change two indexes and a unit in the Index Definition document.

Note: This can be applied within a Hosted environment, but only within a test server.

Open the TEXTML Administration perspective by clicking the TEXTML Administration shortcut on the tool bar. If the shortcut is not displayed, follow these steps:
1. Select Window > Perspective > Open Perspective > Other
2. Click TEXTML Administration.
3. Click Open.
In the TEXTML Administration view, double-click the server. If your server is not displayed in the view, you must add it to the view.
When the Connect as dialog opens, type your username and password and click OK.
Double-click the name of your Content Store to open a connection to it.
Expand the Content Store node and locate the Index Definition document.
Right-click Index Definition and click Check Out.
Double-click the file to open it in the XML editor area.

Locate the reusable_element_id index.

For example:

<index NAME="reusable_element_id">
	<stringindex KEEPEXTRACTEDVALUES="True">
		<elements>
			<element DEPTH="INFINITE" XPATH="//rcbody/*[@id]/@id"/>
		</elements>
	</stringindex>
</index>

Replace the XPath code in <element DEPTH="INFINITE" XPATH="//rcbody/*[@id]/@id"/> with the expression which will capture the ids that you want to index.
For example, if you want to display all elements with the id attribute set contained in any topic type, you would replace the code with:
```
<element DEPTH="INFINITE" XPATH="//*[contains(@class, ' topic/body ')]/*[@id]/@id"/>
```
Note: Since IXIASOFT CCMS is specialization-aware, using topic/body also indexes content from specializations based on the <topic> element such as <task> (task/taskbody), <concept> (concept/conbody), and <reference> (reference/refbody).

Locate the reusable_element_name index.

For example:

<index NAME="reusable_element_name">
	<stringindex KEEPEXTRACTEDVALUES="True">
		<elements>
			<element DEPTH="INFINITE" XPATH="for $e in (//rcbody/*[@id]) return local-name($e)"/>
		</elements>
	</stringindex>
</index>

Replace the XPath code in <element DEPTH="INFINITE" XPATH="for $e in (//rcbody/*[@id]) return local-name($e)"/> with the expression which defines the elements that you want to index.
To continue the previous example, you would need to replace the code with the following:
```
<element DEPTH="INFINITE" XPATH="for $e in (//*[contains(@class, ' topic/body ')]/*[@id]) return local-name($e)"/>
```

Locate the reusable_units unit.

For example:

<unit NAME="reusable_units">
	<unitelements>
		<unitelement XPATH="//rcbody/*[@id]"/>
	</unitelements>
</unit>

Replace the XPath code in <unitelement XPATH="//rcbody/*[@id]"/> with the expression which defines the elements searched as a self-contained block of content to be indexed.
To continue the example, you would need to replace the code with the following:
```
<unitelement XPATH="//*[contains(@class, ' topic/body ')]/*[@id]"/>
```
When you are done, save, close, and check in the Index Definition document.
Inform users of the changes and request that they close and reopen their CCMS Desktop to apply the changes.