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 users understand, structure, and author content in the DRM authoring environment. It also contains information on how to author, manage, publish, translate, and track documentation.
This section provides information and instructions about how to author content using IXIA CCMS Desktop.
These procedures tell you how to use relationship tables.
These procedures deal with the basics of setting up reltables.
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.
This section provides a brief overview about working in IXIA CCMS Desktop.
The IXIA Dynamic Release Management (DRM) module allows technical publication teams to easily manage the documentation for multiple products across multiple release 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.
This set of topics describes the functions common to all objects.
Topics are the building blocks for document deliverables.
This section provides the procedures to manage images for different types of output.
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.
This section describes the synchronization feature and various comparison tools.
The Oxygen XML Editor is an intuitive interface with many powerful tools for working with XML documents.
IXIA CCMS has features that you can use to search the repository for documents or search and replace text within these documents.
This procedure opens the Reltable Editing Perspective from the DITA Map view's pull-down menu.
This procedure tells you how to open the Relationship Table Editing Perspective.
IXIA CCMS offers a view designed expressly for working with DITA relationship tables.
This procedure creates a new relationship table in a map.
Use this procedure to add a pre-configured row to a reltable in your DITA map.
You can add a row that has none of its attributes set to a reltable in your DITA map.
You can add a pre-configured (typed) cell to a reltable row in your DITA map.
You can add a cell that has none of its attributes set to a reltable row.
This procedure describes how to assign a meaningful name to a reltable.
This procedure describes how to assign a meaningful name to a reltable row.
You add topics to reltables one at a time using a drag-and-drop technique. You can also drag a topic from one cell to another.
You can add a topic and all its children to a reltable in a single operation.
Use this procedure to create and configure topic groups.
You can remove a row along with all its constituent cells and topics from a reltable in your DITA map.
You can remove a cell along with all the topics it contains from a reltable in your DITA map.
This section deals with operations such as changing the cell types and configuring link directions.
You can use the Relationship Outline view to locate the rows where one or more topics appear.
You can use the Filter field of the Table Display area to locate specific rows in the reltables in your map.
This section contains some concrete examples of how to use relationship tables.
You can provide links to reference other topics in a variety of ways.
Conditional attributes let you tailor the same document for different requirements.
The keyref feature allows you to use indirect addressing in places such as xrefs and related-links.
The Referable-Content view lets you search for reusable components and insert them into documents.
IXIA CCMS Desktop provides wizards that let you import valid DITA documents into the TEXTML repository.
This section provides information and instructions about how to use IXIA CCMS Desktop functionality to perform other actions with the objects in the CMS.
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.
IXIA CCMS Customer Support staff are available to answer your questions. We welcome your comments.
