# DITA Best Practices : Setting up Profiling Sets

Created by Todd Stupnik, last modified on Mar 25, 2015

Several profiling attributes can be aggregated into a profiling condition set that allow you to apply more complex filters on the document content. The profiling set allows you to preview the content that goes into the published output, and is selected when creating a PDF or webhelp deliverable.

## Prerequisites

Before creating a profiling set, verify that you have the values created for the following select attributes:

- Product
- Audience
- Props
- Otherprops
- Platform
- Rev

For further reading on creating attributes, see the following articles:

- Attributes
- Product Attributes
- Product Attribute Quick Reference

## Why use a Profiling Set?

The Profiling Set is the companion piece to reusing content. If the goal of using content is to create conditions and modify existing content to use for specific content, without creating NEW content, the Profiling Set filters specific attribute values to create custom documentation.

## Creating a Profiling Set

To create a new profiling condition set, perform:

1. Open the Profiling Condition Sets preferences page from Options > Preferences > Editor > Edit modes > Author menu OR click the Profiling Condition Set button in the DITA Maps Manager view.
2. In the Profiling Condition Sets area, press the New button. The following dialog appears:
3. In the resulting dialog, enter a Name and define the combination of attribute values by ticking the appropriate checkboxes.
   For example, in the above example, the following values have been selected:
   Audience: DocOne
   Product: defaultsvc
   Platform: print
4. Select DITA* from the Document Type dropdown.
5. Click OK.
6. Click Apply to save the condition set. All saved profiling condition sets are available in the Profling/Conditional Text toolbar menu.

## Next Steps

After creating a profiling set, you will want to run a transformation based on the profiling set; for more information, see Transformation Scenarios.

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