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Guide to IXIA CCMS 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 7.1, 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.
Overview of IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop
This section provides a brief overview about working in IXIA CCMS Desktop.
Working offline
You can keep working in IXIA CCMS Desktop in the Offline perspective when you cannot connect to the Content Store.

IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop User Guide
The core guide for Advanced users of IXIA CCMS Desktop 7.1, 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.
  - Starting IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop
    This section covers how to start CCMS Desktop.
  - About DITA
    Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) provides a topic-oriented content architecture built on XML technologies.
  - The working environment
    This section describes the basic features of the IXIA CCMS Desktop working environment.
  - Working offline
    You can keep working in IXIA CCMS Desktop in the Offline perspective when you cannot connect to the Content Store.
    - About the Offline perspective
      The Offline Perspective offers a restricted set of IXIA CCMS Desktop functionality. Working offline lets you continue working when you do not have access to the repository.
    - Open Offline perspective
      You can work offline with locked documents in the Offline perspective.
    - Context menu in Offline Documents view
      In the Offline perspective, the options available for the right-click context menu in the Offline Documents view are different from those in the DITA perspective.
    - Refresh the Offline Documents view
      If you frequently move between the DITA and Offline perspectives, you may want to periodically refresh the Offline Documents view.
    - Filter the Images view
      You can filter the images displayed in the Offline perspective using the Filter field.
    - Return to the DITA perspective
      When you have access to the Content Store again, you can return to the DITA perspective and release your files.
  - Integration with IXIA CCMS Desktop
    IXIA CCMS Web has a streamlined user interface that is easier for SMEs and reviewers to use than IXIA CCMS Desktop, and it provides writers with all the core tools they need to author content. The documentation development process spans both CCMS Web and CCMS Desktop.
  - Setting your environment to use IXIASOFT Dynamic Release Management
    This section provides procedures for searching DRM objects, filtering objects, etc.
  - Configure global exclusion filter settings
    You can configure the global exclusion filter settings to filter out products, libraries, releases, and versions based on a specific set of criteria. You can then turn on these filter settings in dialogs in DRM.
- 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.
- 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.
- Technical support
  IXIA CCMS Customer Support staff are available to answer your questions. We welcome your comments.

Working offline

You can keep working in IXIA CCMS Desktop in the Offline perspective when you cannot connect to the Content Store.

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