The core guide for Advanced users of IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop 6.1. It contains information to help users author, manage, publish, translate, and track documentation.
This section provides information and instructions about how to use IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop functionality to perform other actions with the objects in the CMS.
You can perform data-mining operations on the Content Store for use with the report-generating capabilities of the BIRT Report Designer.
This example illustrates the entire process of generating a BIRT report.
This is the output produced by BIRT example one.
IXIASOFT CCMS is a documentation solution that combines the mechanics of an extensible environment, a powerful Content Management System (CMS), and the elegant modularity of DITA.
This section provides a brief explanation of what DITA is and an overview of the IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop interface.
This section provides a starting point for working with IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop.
This section provides information and instructions about how to author content using IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop.
The Document view gives you several document tracking functionalities, such as identifying recently used documents or frequently used documents.
The Dependencies view displays the relationships that a specific document has with other DITA documents in your system.
Work can be assigned to different sets of users at different points in the document development cycle.
Labels let you apply additional information to any object in the repository.
You can capture then contents of a map at a particular point in time using the snapshot feature.
Branching lets you create a new, editable version of a previously published map.
This section describes how to use the Build Manifest feature.
You can create taxonomies that reflect the structure of the information contained in your documents.
The project management feature lets coordinators handle project-wide tasks that may involve multiple deliverables.
You can create and generate reports.
Use this procedure to install the open-source reporting tools.
Before you can begin to create a BIRT report, you need to prepare your data in the DITA Perspective.
BIRT report production begins in the DITA Perspective with a TEXTML query and finishes in the Report Design Perspective.
The Data Set Definition dialog lets you create complex XML-based queries without having to go in and edit the code by hand.
A data set definition sets up the criteria that produce your data source.
You can modify existing data set definitions and save them under another name.
After you create the data set definition, you use it to generate the IXIASOFT CCMS data source.
BIRT reports must be stored in a project folder.
This procedure describes how to create a new report within your BIRT project folder.
This procedure gives you a quick way of obtaining the full path of the IXIASOFT CCMS data source for use within the Report Design Perspective.
Once you have created a report design, you connect it with the data source you want to use.
After you create your BIRT data source, you select the data set columns that you want to use in the current report.
The process starts with a TEXTML query.
The next step is to define the data set.
From the data set definition you generate the data source.
After you've finished defining your IXIASOFT CCMS data source, you'll move on to defining the data source in BIRT.
The next step is to define the BIRT data set.
After you've defined the data set, you have the option of previewing the output.
When you’ve finished editing your data set, you’ll see it displayed in the Data Explorer view.
This example uses information from the Authored Stamp to compare the review rates of different writers.
Localization is the process of translating content and adapting it for use in another language.
Shortcut keys let you perform many routine actions with just two or three keystrokes.
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