Topic alert indicators

Icons in the DITA Map view and DITA Map Editor view let you quickly identify topics that are critical to the workflow.

When you are developing a large and complex document deliverable, it becomes difficult to identify topics that are keeping the map from progressing to the next stage in the document development cycle. Similarly, if you are revising a large document, you'll want a way of identifying exactly which topics have changed so that you assign them for review. IXIA CCMS marks these problematical topics so that you can easily see them in the maps you're working on.

Blocking topics - When a topic at the beginning of a development cycle is added to a map, the system puts an alert indicator in the Status column. This indicator stays there until the topic advances to a state that will let the parent map advance into its own next state.
When the map is promoted into its next state the alert indicator reappears on all topics. The indicator stays there until all topics advance to a state that lets the map move forward into the next cycle in the document development process.
Modified topics - If a map is at Authoring:done or an equivalent final state, such as Authoring:release, if you demote one of its related documents to an earlier state, such as a topic or map, the system places an alert indicator into the document's Last Mod Date column. The system removes the icon once the map returns to Authoring:done or the equivalent final state.