Editing DITA Maps

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 navigate easily to the referred topics and maps, make changes and perform transformations to various output formats using the DITA-OT framework bundled with Oxygen.

The DITA Maps Manager View

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 are resolved and displayed in the view dynamically when navigating the tree. After the map is opened in the view, you can open it in the main editor for further customization using the Open map in editor toolbar action.

The toolbar includes the actions which are also available on menu DITA Maps:

Tip: 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 view or referenced content in the opened editors by unchecking the Display referred content checkbox available in the Author preferences page.
Tip: The additional edit toolbar can be shown by clicking the "Show/Hide additional toolbar" expand button located on the general toolbar.
The following edit actions can be performed on an opened DITA Map: