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Guide to IXIASOFT CCMS 7.0 Dynamic Release Management (DRM) for Information Architects

Guide to IXIASOFT CCMS DRM for Information Architects
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IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop User Guide
The core guide for Advanced users of IXIA CCMS Desktop 7.0, who are using the IXIA Dynamic Release Management (DRM) module. It contains information to help information architects understand basic tasks and workflows for the CCMS Desktop authoring environment. It also contains information on how to author, manage, publish, translate, and track documentation.
Working with DITA
This section provides information and instructions about how to author content using IXIA CCMS Desktop.
Creating a relationship table
These procedures tell you how to use relationship tables.
Relationship table examples
This section contains some concrete examples of how to use relationship tables.

IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop User Guide
The core guide for Advanced users of IXIA CCMS Desktop 7.0, who are using the IXIA Dynamic Release Management (DRM) module. It contains information to help information architects understand basic tasks and workflows for the CCMS Desktop authoring environment. It also contains information on how to author, manage, publish, translate, and track documentation.
- Introduction
  IXIA 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.
- Overview of IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop
  This section provides a brief overview about working in IXIA CCMS Desktop.
- About the IXIASOFT Dynamic Release Management module
  The IXIA Dynamic Release Management (DRM) module allows technical publication teams to easily manage the documentation for multiple products across multiple release cycles.
- Managing the documentation structure
- Working with DITA
  This section provides information and instructions about how to author content using IXIA CCMS Desktop.
  - Understanding the document cycles
    Documents go through several phases of development. Topics, for example, are written, edited, and approved by technical experts, and then may be sent for translation. Each phase of document development has a unique set of people who are responsible for the document in that phase.
  - Working with objects
    This set of topics describes the functions common to all objects.
  - Working with DITA maps
  - Working with topics
    Topics are the building blocks for document deliverables.
  - Working with images
    This section provides the procedures to manage images for different types of output.
  - Working with resources
    Resources are document objects that support a documentation project. For example, schedule charts could be added as a reference resource for a project with a long and complex timeline.
  - Comparing and synchronizing documents
    This section describes the synchronization feature and various comparison tools.
  - Using the Oxygen XML Editor
    The Oxygen XML Editor is an intuitive interface with many powerful tools for working with XML documents.
  - Searches and queries
    IXIA CCMS has features that you can use to search the repository for documents or search and replace text within these documents.
  - Creating a relationship table
    These procedures tell you how to use relationship tables.
    - Open the Reltable Editing Perspective from the DITA Map view's menu
      This procedure opens the Reltable Editing Perspective from the DITA Map view's pull-down menu.
    - Open the Reltable Editing Perspective from the main menu bar
      This procedure tells you how to open the Relationship Table Editing Perspective.
    - The Reltable Editing Perspective
      IXIA CCMS offers a view designed expressly for working with DITA relationship tables.
    - Construct relationship tables
      These procedures deal with the basics of setting up reltables.
    - Configure relationship tables
      This section deals with operations such as changing the cell types and configuring link directions.
    - Locate reltable rows where a topic is used
      You can use the Relationship Outline view to locate the rows where one or more topics appear.
    - Filter reltable rows in the Table Display area
      You can use the Filter field of the Table Display area to locate specific rows in the reltables in your map.
    - Relationship table examples
      This section contains some concrete examples of how to use relationship tables.
      - Reltable example one: CRT row structure
        Once you’ve inserted a reltable into a map, you’ll start adding rows. IXIA CCMS offers several types of pre-configured rows.
      - Reltable example one: CRT row output
        This topic shows the Changing your Oil topic as it would appear in HTML Help.
      - Reltable example two: links are between cells – not within cells
        When you add topics to a relationship table cell, those topics link to the topics in the other cells – not to each other.
      - Reltable example three: linking topics of the same type
        If you want links between two topics of the same type – two concepts, for example – you can put them into a family type of topic group.
      - Reltable example four: linking direction
        You can override the default linking direction.
      - Reltable example five: creating sequences
        You can use a reltable to dynamically create a set of numbered steps from the required topic titles.
  - Creating links
    You can provide links to reference other topics in a variety of ways.
  - Applying conditions (profiling and conditional processing)
    Conditional attributes let you tailor the same document for different requirements.
  - Keyrefs and keydefs
    The keyref feature allows you to use indirect addressing in places such as xrefs and related-links.
  - Creating and using conrefs
    The Referable-Content view lets you search for reusable components and insert them into documents.
  - Importing and exporting documents
    IXIA CCMS Desktop provides wizards that let you import valid DITA documents into the TEXTML repository.
- Using IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop features
  This section provides information and instructions about how to use IXIA CCMS Desktop functionality to perform other actions with the objects in the CMS.
- Localizing documents
  Localization is the process of translating content and adapting it for use in another language.
- Glossary
- Shortcut keys
  Shortcut keys let you perform many routine actions with just two or three keystrokes.
- Copyright notice
- Technical support
  IXIA CCMS Customer Support staff are available to answer your questions. We welcome your comments.

Relationship table examples

This section contains some concrete examples of how to use relationship tables.

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