<oXygen/> provides a special view for editing DITA maps. The DITA Maps Manager view presents a map in a simplified table-of-contents manner allowing the user to easily navigate the referred topics and maps, make changes and perform transformations to various output formats using the DITA-OT framework bundled with <oXygen/>.
You can open a map file from Project in the DITA Maps Manager view by right clicking it and choosing Open in DITA Maps Manager. The titles of the referenced resources will be resolved dynamically when navigating the tree. After the map is opened in the Manager you can open it in the main editor for further customization using the Open map in editor toolbar action.
If your map references other DITA Maps they will be shown expanded in the DITA Maps
Tree and you will also be able to navigate their content. For editing you will have to
open each referenced map in a separate editor. You can choose not to expand referenced
maps in the DITA Maps Manager or referenced content in the opened
editors by unchecking the Display referred content
checkbox available
in the Author preferences page.
A map opened from WebDAV can be locked when it is opened in DITA Maps Manager by checking the option Lock WebDAV files on open to protect it from concurrent modifications on the server by other users. If other user tries to edit the same map he will receive an error message and the name of the lock owner. The lock is released automatically when the map is closed from <oXygen/> DITA Maps Manager.
The steps for creating a new DITA map are very simple:
Go to menu
→ or click on the toolbar button.On the tab From templates of the New dialog select one of the DITA Map templates and click OK. A new tab is added in the DITA Maps Manager view.
Press the
button on the toolbar of the DITA Maps Manager view.In the Save As dialog select a location and a file name for the map.