# DITA Best Practices : Creating a DITAVAL using oXygen locally

Created by Kelly Mankenberg, last modified on Jun 02, 2015

This procedure is intended to guide you through creating a Ditaval file manually using oXygen. To create a ditaval using the DITAVAL Wizard within InfoDev DITA Tools, refer to Creating a DITAVAL using InfoDev DITA Tools.

To learn more about DITAVALs, refer to DITAVALs.

## Step-by-step guide

To create a ditaval using oXygen:

1. Within oXygen, from the File menu, select New.
   The New dialog is displayed.
2. Expand Framework templates > DITAVAL and select Filter.
3. Click Create.
   oXygen creates a new document session populated with default attributes and values.

4. Modify the attributes and values according to your current filtering needs.

   Note

   For more information on the concept of a ditaval file and its attributes and values, refer to DITAVALs

5. When finished creating your ditaval, store it in the TFS location of $/FS.InfoDev/Dev. This ensures that others can make use of all created ditavals without having to create a new one.

   Important

   For assistance on how to name your ditval, refer to DITAVAL Naming Conventions.

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