Configure a conditional attribute

If your organization has a master list of conditional attributes and values that you want to enforce the use of, you can re-create this same list in the CCMS.

About this task

To understand where conditional attributes are used in the CCMS and how the master list interacts with subjectScheme maps, see Configuring conditional attributes and values.

Important: Make configuration changes in a test environment and confirm they work before copying them to a production environment.

Procedure

In the TEXTML Administration perspective, connect to your server.
Check out and open the system/conf/conditionaltext.xml file.
For each condition to display in the dialogs, create a <category> entry, specifying the following information:
```
<category name="condition_name" xmlattribute="attribute_name"> 
    <allowedvalue deprecated="true|false">value</allowedvalue> 
</category>
```
where:
- category_name
  Name of the condition as displayed in the dialogs
- attribute_name
  Name of the XML conditional processing attribute
- deprecated
  Specifies whether this value is deprecated or not. When set to true, the value will not be displayed in the dialogs. Default value is false.See Deprecate conditional attribute values for more information.
- value
  Value that can be set for this condition. Create one <allowedvalue> element per valid value.
For example:
```
<category name="Platform" xmlattribute="platform"> 
    <allowedvalue>linux</allowedvalue> 
    <allowedvalue>mac</allowedvalue> 
    <allowedvalue>solaris</allowedvalue> 
    <allowedvalue>windows</allowedvalue> 
</category>
```
Save, close, and check in the file.
Inform users of the changes and ask them to close and reopen their CCMS Desktop to apply the changes.