A variety of actions are available in the DITA Map framework that can be added to the DITA menu, the Author Custom Actions toolbar, the contextual menu, and the Content Completion Assistant.
DITA Map Toolbar and Menu Actions
When a DITA map is opened in Author mode, the following default actions are available on the DITA Map Author Custom Actions toolbar (by default, they are also available in the DITA menu and in various submenus of the contextual menu):
Insert New
Topic- Opens a New DITA topic dialog box that allows you to create a new topic and inserts a reference to it at the cursor position.
Insert Topic
Reference- Opens the Insert Reference dialog box that allows you to insert and configure a reference to a topic at the cursor position.
Reuse
Content- Opens the Reuse Content dialog box that allows you to insert and configure a content reference (conref), or a content key reference (conkeyref) at the cursor position.
Insert Topic
Heading- Opens the Insert Reference dialog box that allows you to insert a topic heading at the cursor position.
Insert Topic
Group- Opens the Insert Reference dialog box that allows you to insert a topic group at the cursor position.
Insert
Relationship Table- Opens a dialog box that allows you to configure the relationship table to be inserted. The dialog box allows you to configure the number of rows and columns of the relationship table, if the header will be generated and if the title will be added.
Relationship Table Properties- Allows you to change the properties of rows in relationship tables.
Insert
Relationship Row- Inserts a new table row with empty cells. The action is available when the cursor position is inside a table.
Insert
Relationship Column- Inserts a new table column with empty cells after the current column. The action is available when the cursor position is inside a table.
Delete
Relationship Column- Deletes the table column where the cursor is located.
Delete
Relationship Row- Deletes the table row where the cursor is located.
DITA Menu Actions
In addition, the following default actions are available in the DITA menu when editing a DITA map in Author mode:
Refresh
References- You can use this action to manually trigger a refresh and update of all referenced resources.
- Tags display mode Submenu
Full Tags with
Attributes - Displays full tag names with attributes for both block level
and in-line level elements.
Full Tags - Displays
full tag names without attributes for both block level and in-line level elements.
Block Tags - Displays
full tag names for block level elements and simple tags without names for in-line level
elements.
Inline Tags -
Displays full tag names for inline level elements, while block level elements are not
displayed.
Partial Tags -
Displays simple tags without names for in-line level elements, while block level
elements are not displayed.
No Tags - No tags are
displayed. This is the most compact mode and is as close as possible to a word-processor
view.- Profiling/Conditional Text Submenu
- Edit Profiling Attributes - Allows you to configure the profiling attributes and their values.
- Show Profiling Colors and Styles - Select this option to turn on conditional styling.
- Show Profiling Attributes - Select this option to turn on conditional text markers. They are displayed at the end of conditional text blocks, as a list of attribute name and their currently set values.
- Show Excluded Content - When this option is enabled, the content filtered by the currently applied condition set is greyed-out. To show only the content that matches the currently applied condition set, disable this option.
- List of all profiling condition sets that match the current document type - You can click a listed condition set to activate it.
Profiling Settings -
Opens the profiling options preferences page, where you can manage profiling attributes
and profiling conditions sets. You can also configure the profiling styles and colors
options from the colors/styles preferences page and the attributes rendering preferences page.
DITA Map Contextual Menu Actions
In addition to many of the DITA Map toolbar actions and the general Author mode contextual menu actions, the following DITA map framework-specific action is also available in the contextual menu when editing in Author mode:
Search
References- Finds the references to the id attribute value of the selected element in all the topics from the current DITA map (opened in the DITA Maps Manager view).
