Oxygen XML Editor plugin 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 XML Editor plugin .
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.
Drag and drop operations are allowed inside the view. You can move topics inside the same map or between different maps by dragging and dropping them into the desired position. Also, you can copy topics by dragging them while pressing the Ctrl (Meta on Mac OS) key.
The toolbar includes the actions which are also available on menu DITA Maps:
Open - Allows opening the
map in the DITA Maps Manager view. You can also open a map by
dragging it in the DITA Maps Manager view from the file system
explorer.
Open URL - Allows opening
remote maps in the DITA Maps Manager view. See Open URL for details.
Save
(Ctrl+S) - Saves the current DITA map.
Validate and Check for
Completeness - Checks the validity and
integrity of the map.
Apply Transformation
Scenario - Applies
the DITA map transformation scenario that is associated with the current map from
the view.
Configure Transformation
Scenario - Allows associating a DITA map transformation scenario with the current map.
Refresh References
- You can use this action to manually trigger a refresh and update of all titles of referred
topics. This action is useful when the referred topics are modified externally. When they
are modified and saved from the
Oxygen XML Editor plugin
Author, the DITA Map is
updated automatically.
Open Map in
Editor with Resolved Topics - Opens the result of expanding all topic
references in Author editor.
Open Map in Editor
- For complex operations which cannot be performed in the simplified DITA maps view (like
editing a relationship table) you can open the map in the main editing area.
Link with Editor -
Disables/Enables the synchronization between the file path of the current editor and the
selected topic reference in the DITA Maps Manager view.
Profiling/Conditional
Text menu with the following actions:
Configure Profiling Condition
Sets ... - Opens the preferences panel for adding and editing the
profiling conditions that can be applied in the DITA Maps Manager
view and the Author editor.
Insert Reference -
Inserts a reference to a topic file. You can find more details about this action in the
Inserting a
Reference, a Key Definition, a Topic Set topic.
Insert Topic Heading -
Inserts a topic heading. You can find more details about this action in the Inserting a
Topic Heading topic.
Insert Topic Group -
Inserts a topic group. You can find more details about this action in the Inserting a Topic Group topic.
Edit
Properties - Edit the properties of a selected node. You can find more
details about this action in the Edit Properties topic.
Edit Attributes -
Allows you to edit all the attributes of a selected node. You can find more details about
this action in the Attributes View topic.
Delete - Deletes the
selected node.
Move Up (Alt +
Up) - Moves the selected nodes in front of their respective
previous siblings.
Move Down (Alt +
Down) - Moves the selected nodes after their next respective
siblings.
Promote (Alt +
Left) - Moves the selected nodes after their respective parents
as siblings.
Demote (Alt +
Right) - Moves the selected nodes as children to their
respective previous siblings.