The user guide for content contributors, reviewers, and subject matter experts (SMEs) using IXIA CCMS Web. It teaches how to create, review, and edit content in collaboration with writers.
In CCMS Web, you can create, edit, and organize topics, maps, images, resources, and other CCMS-specific objects such as Collaborative Reviews, Approvals, and Snapshots.
Topics are the basic containers for all content in IXIA CCMS Web.
This section explains how to access CCMS Web.
The CCMS Web is designed to be intuitive and consistent, making it straightforward to navigate the application.
You can use the Search in the Navigation bar to quickly find IXIA CCMS Web objects.
Topic Editor provides the editing tools you need to add or change content in topics.
Create a topic for use in a map, once you determine the nature of content you intend to develop and its relationship to other map objects.
You must check out an object, such as an image, map, or topic before you can edit it.
Topics can be in more than one branch. If you need to edit a topic that is in more than one branch, you must fork the topic.
While in a topic, you can determine if there is a context map in the Details side panel. If the topic does not have one or you need to switch to a different context map, you can designate a context map.
You may be prompted to provide a description of the changes or add a tracker link when you check in an object, depending on the workflow settings in IXIA CCMS.
You can enable the automatic spell checker to assist you with spelling and grammar choices during topic edits.
You can manage comments while editing an object in any editor.
If the image you need does not already exist as an object in IXIA CCMS Web, you must add it, which requires an upload.
You can search the images already uploaded to IXIA CCMS Web for inserting within a topic.
During development or edit, you can add special characters to CCMS Web content.
You can format tables using the Table Properties dialog.
You can adjust the width of a column in a table using the <colspec> element.
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When you are done editing, you must check in the image, topic, or map so that the changes can be saved and other users can make changes.
Maps provide a structured hierarchy to the objects and content within it.
Because images are not text-based content like maps or topics, CCMS Web treats them uniquely.
Resources are non-DITA files (such as PDF files and Word files) that support documentation. You can use resources to upload and store these files in IXIA CCMS. For a definition of what constitutes a resource, see https://www.oxygenxml.com/dita/1.3/specs/archSpec/base/dita-terminology.html.
You can use the Spell Checker feature to detect possible spelling errors of words within a topic or a map.
A worklist is a list of objects that you share with a user group. The group uses the worklist to coordinate work on the related objects and tracks related assignments.
You can mark an object as a personal favorite, which adds it to your Favorites side panel so that you can quickly find it and work with it.
Any kind of relationship one object has to another object is called a dependency: all dependencies are reciprocal relationships.
Whenever an important change happens to an object, IXIA CCMS Web creates a new revision. CCMS Web tracks all the changes to an object with each revision and stores the information in the revision history.
A taxonomy is a hierarchical classification system that organizes taxonomy terms. Taxonomy terms are a type of metadata, which you can use to classify objects.
When you select an object in IXIA CCMS Web, the Bulk Actions basket saves your selection to the basket for taking a given action.
You can track all IXIA CCMS Web work assigned to you on the My Assignments page.
Reviewers can use the Collaborative Review (CR) feature on the content assigned to them as a means to both provide feedback to writers and view any annotations added by other assigned reviewers.
Use the Approvals feature to get a final sign off on content after completion of all reviews.
All of the content that you create can be exported from IXIA CCMS Web to the target document deliverables using the IXIA CCMS Output Generator. The CCMS Output Generator is the component that executes the transformation processes from DITA files to a specified output type, such as PDF, HTML, and XML.
IXIA CCMS Customer Support staff are available to answer your questions. We welcome your comments.
