Contains information to help information architects understand basic tasks and workflows for the CCMS Desktop authoring environment. Contains additional information for advanced users who author, manage, publish, translate, and track documentation.
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.
The DITA perspective is the default working environment for IXIA CCMS.
The IXIA Dynamic Release Management view lists the products, libraries, releases, and versions that are configured for your deployment.
The Information view shows all the DRM versions for the selected object.
When you create a product, library, release, or version, IXIA CCMS creates an XML file that defines that product, library, release, or version.
Before writers can add objects (maps, topics, images, resources) to IXIA CCMS, the documentation structure must be set up.
You can change a product or library's DRM version name to a new unique name.
You clone a version when you want to use the content of a version as a starting point for the next version.
If all of the work for one version is complete, you can close the version. This prevents anyone from accidentally creating or changing content for that version.
You can reopen any version that is closed If you need to change the content in it.
You can edit libraries or their dependencies if the organization or structure of your libraries needs to change.
The Locate Containers feature is used to find the container and container parts associated to a version.
You can change a product into a library or a library into a product using Refactor.
You can export the Dynamic Release Management tree view to a tab-separated-value (TSV) file.
A version tag is an object that captures the contents of a product version or library version at a particular point in time. It is like a snapshot for an entire version.
The following section examines how Content Level Security works with content defined within the IXIA Dynamic Release Management environment.
This section provides information and instructions about how to author content using IXIA CCMS Desktop.
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.
