The core guide for Advanced users of IXIA CCMS Desktop 7.2, 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.
This section provides information and instructions about how to use IXIA CCMS Desktop functionality to perform other actions with the objects in the CMS.
You can create and generate reports.
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.
This section provides information and instructions about how to author content using IXIA 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.
You can assign your map to be simultaneously reviewed by multiple people in IXIA CCMS Web.
To get a final sign-off on content, you can use an Approval. You can assign your map to be approved by one or multiple people in IXIA CCMS Web.
The Generate Output command creates document deliverables in different formats.
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.
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.
This section provides an overview of reports and describes how to generate them in IXIA CCMS Desktop.
To create a report you have to create a viewpoint.
To create a report you need a TEXTML Server query.
This feature allows users to generate reports based on queries that they have created. The report contains all the required information to generate reports from the saved TEXTML Server query in IXIA CCMS Desktop.
Generating a report manually is very useful to test that the report includes the correct information.
Reports can be generated automatically by setting the Schedule information when creating a report.
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.
