Show views
Show views lets you open or redisplay views that are closed.
About this task
You can close and open views as you require. The following is not a comprehensive list of views.
| View | Description | Default Perspective |
|---|---|---|
| Bulletin Board | Displays messages that have been added to a document map's Bulletin Board. | Project Management |
| Dependencies | Displays documents with a parent or child relationship to the selected document. | DITA |
| DITA Map | Displays maps. | DITA |
| Ditaval | Displays conditional processing profiles (DITAVAL) files. They are used to specify the sets of output parameters that you use most frequently, and then apply them as you generate the various types of output. | DITA |
| Documents | Displays user activity in terms of Recent Documents opened, Recent Operations on documents (for example, release, lock), and documents the user has marked as Favorites. | DITA |
| Images | Displays the images used in the map. You can use this view to copy the reference, ID, or full path of an image. | Offline |
| Offline documents | Displays a list of documents that are currently locked, so that you can unlock them all at once if desired. | Offline |
| Preview | Displays an HTML preview of the selected topic when you right-click Show Preview. | DITA |
| Project Management | Displays a summary of the projects for the current user. | Project Management |
| Relationship Outline | Used for building relationship tables. | Reltable Editing |
| Relationship Table Editor | Used for editing relationship tables. | Reltable Editing |
| Search | Displays results of a search within the current map. | DITA |
| Search Results | Displays results of a Content Store search. | DITA |
| Taxonomy Terms | Lets you manage taxonomies in a map and the documents that contain their terms. | DITA |
| Todo List | Displays the user's list of Active document objects. | DITA |
The following Eclipse views are available for use within the DITA Perspective. More extensive information is available from Eclipse help.
- Outline view - displays structured files in a hierarchical format. If you are using an editor that supports this view, you'll be able to see the structure of the XML file that's currently open in your editor.
- Properties view - shows the properties of a map or topic in the DITA Map view.
- Error log view - displays information that may help you resolve technical problems (for example, if you have modified a DTD).
To open a view: