The working environment

This section describes the basic features of the IXIA CCMS Desktop working environment.

Eclipse contains several perspectives that define the layout for different uses of Eclipse. When you first open the CCMS Desktop, you will see the DITA Perspective. The DITA Perspective is the default working environment for the CCMS Desktop.

An Eclipse perspective is a collection of tabbed panes referred to as views and an editor area. The views let you perform specific operations on specific sets of content resources. Editors give you direct access to the text of your XML files.

The perspective used as the CCMS working environment is the DITA Perspective. It contains the default views needed to work with CCMS.

Overview of the DITA perspective — Figure: The DITA Perspective

About the editor area

By default, the center of the DITA Perspective is used for the editor area. When you open XML files for editing, this is where they appear. You may also be able to have several different files open in different editors at the same time in the editor area, if your workstation is set up for this.

Table 1. Editors supplied with CCMS
Item
Internal editor	Displays either the text or author view of the content for the topic
DITA map editor	Displays an outline view of the document deliverable similar to the DITA map view, but without the tag editing features, so you can have several DITA map editors open in the pane where your XML editors appear
Read-only editor	Displays the selected topic's text and XML tags in read-only mode, so you can look at a topic without the risk of inadvertent modification

About the views

Some views, such as the DITA map view, show the structure of the document deliverable. Other views allow you to preview the topic you're working on, or view its properties.

Table 2. Commonly used views
View	Function
Search results	Displays the documents that match your search criteria
Documents	Gives you several document-specific tracking functionality, such as identifying recently used documents, or frequently used documents
Search	Provides search filters to specify documents types and the cycles for inclusion in the search
DITA map	Displays an outline view of the document deliverable of a map that corresponds to the table of contents and offers a set of tag editing features Note: You can only open one map at a time in this view.
Todo list	Displays files assigned to the current user, along with current status and position on the user's timeline
Dependencies view	Provides view of objects related to or referenced by a given object in all directions: parents, children, and siblings
Ditaval view	Applies your saved sets of output parameters to various types of outputs