Define system-wide conditional text highlighting for CCMS Desktop

You can configure CCMS Desktop to display conditional/profiling text in different colors and styles in Author mode. These colors and styles do not appear in outputs generated through IXIA CCMS Output Generator.

About this task

Instead of each user configuring a personalized profiling color scheme for Oxygen XML Editor (or Author) in Window > Preferences, you can define a system-wide scheme for all users.

This system-wide scheme applies to users who have not configured their own local scheme. If users have defined profiling styles for their CCMS Desktop or have had a previously defined style, their styles override the profiling styles defined in the Content Store. To use the system-wide scheme, they must delete their local settings.

A template for defining the profiling color scheme is available in the system > oxygen_cfg collection. You can build the color scheme using the code in the template; however, it is recommended that you define the scheme in the Preferences dialog box and then export it for use in CCMS.

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

Note: If a user cannot see the profiling colors and styles when in Author mode, have the user click Profiling/Conditional Text toolbar menu and then click Show Profiling Colors and Styles.

1. Open Window > Preferences.
2. In the left pane, go to oXygen XML Editor (or oXygen XML Author) > Editor > Edit Modes/Pages > Author > Profiling/Conditional Text > Colors and Styles.
3. In the Colors and Styles pane, import your conditions from a ditaval file or create them as required.
4. Click a profiling attribute value and click Edit.
5. Define the style as desired and click OK.
6. Repeat for each profiling attribute value as required.
7. Export the global options for oXygen XML Editor:
   1. In the left pane, click oXygen XML Editor (or oXygen XML Author).
   2. Click Export Global Options
   3. Save to your local disk.
8. In the TEXTML Administration perspective, connect to your server.
9. Expand the Content Store's Repository node and browse to /system/oxygen_cfg/ to locate the oxygen.default.options.xml file.
10. Check out the file and open it for editing.
11. Open the file containing the exported global options.
    The profiling color scheme is defined inside the <profilingAttributeStyle-array> element.
12. Copy the contents of the <profilingAttributeStyle-array> element.
13. In the oxygen.default.options.xml file, replace the existing contents by pasting the new contents into the <profilingAttributeStyle-array> element.
14. Save, close, and check in the file.
15. Inform users of the changes.
    The changes are automatically applied once users close and then reopen their IXIA CCMS Desktop. Users can also apply the changes without restarting their CCMS Desktop by clicking IXIA CCMS > Synchronize Configuration.