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 author content using IXIA CCMS Desktop.
This set of topics describes the functions common to all objects.
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.
You can use the Information view to see the versions to which an object belongs.
Even if an object is shared between multiple versions, the file for the object exists in only one of the versions: the Primary Version.
Before you can modify a map, topic, image, or resource, you must lock it.
You can release a locked object to save your latest modifications to the server and unlock the file so other users can edit it. An object can only be released by the user who locked it.
This procedure describes how to update the status of a document object in the document cycle.
File revisions are managed by the system.
The Clone command creates maps, topics, and images from existing ones.
Topics, images, or resources can be added to versions so that they can be reused in the documentation for these versions.
This procedure describes how to branch one or more topics, images, or resources.
You can replace older versions of an object in one Version with a newer version of the object from a different Version.
Remove an object from a version when the version is no longer needed by any maps or topics in the version.
The Delete command removes objects from the active area of the repository.
The Restore command lets you recover files that you may have inadvertently deleted.
Every document object in the repository has a set of properties that describe and identify it uniquely.
IXIA CCMS offers a view that provides information about an object selected in any view (such as the Search Results and DITA Map views).
This procedure lets you quickly copy a document's file name.
This procedure lets you copy a document's root ID.
This procedure lets you copy a document's file name and absolute path within the TEXTML repository.
The Copy Element ID feature allows you to copy the ID of an element from a topic in the Referable-Content view.
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.
These procedures tell you 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.
