Editing Actions

Important: References can be made either by using the href attribute or by using the new keyref attribute to point to a key defined in the map. Oxygen XML Author tries to resolve both cases. keyrefs are solved relative to the current map.

In additional to being available on the toolbar and on the contextual menu, more navigation actions and all edit actions appear in the DITA Maps menu. The menu is only available when the view is active on screen.

The contextual menu contains, in addition to the edit actions described above, the following actions:

You can also arrange the nodes by dragging and dropping one or more nodes at a time. Drop operations can be performed before, after or as child of the targeted node. The relative location of the drop is indicated while hovering the mouse over a node before releasing the mouse button for the drop.

Drag and drop operations allow you to:

Tip:

You can open and edit linked topics easily by double clicking the references or by right-clicking and choosing Open in editor. If the referenced file does not exist you are allowed to create it.

By right clicking the map root element you can open and edit it in the main editor area for more complex operations.

You can decide to open the reference directly in the Author mode and keep this setting as a default.

Related information
Inserting a Reference, a Key Definition, a Topic Set
Finding and Replacing Text in Multiple Files
Spell Checking in Multiple Files