# DITA Best Practices : Profiling Attributes: turning on/off

Created by Todd Stupnik, last modified on Dec 30, 2014

The Profiling Attributes setting allows you to turn Profling Attributes on/off. Profiling attributes allow you to apply attributes on a text fragment, on a single element, or on multiple elements in the same time. See Applying Profiling Attributes for detailed information. This setting is useful when using topics that contain multiple product/audience attributes and is applied to your Profiling Condition sets when creating webhelp and PDF outputs.

You can turn Profiling on/off (Show Profiling Attributes) in the following:

- In a DITA topic, independent of a ditamap view, you can show/hide profiling through the DITA menu (DITA > Profiling/Conditional Text); also the toolbar icon (funnel)
- In a DITA map you can show/hide profiling through the DITA Maps menu (DITAMaps > Profiling/Conditional Text); also the toolbar icon (funnel)

### DITA Maps>Profiling/Conditional text menu option

### Profiling/Conditional text option within the toolbar

### Profiling Attributes in Author Mode

In the example below, the <li/> element has been selected and an Audience attribute applied. Selecting on any of the audience attribute values (highlighted in green) displays a checkbox with a comprehensive list of audience attribute values. Attribute values selected here in turn filter content that will/will not appear in your webhelp or PDF outputs.

For example, the <li/> element has the following values selected/applied:

- DocOne
- DocOne-ARM
- DocOne-Commercial
- DocOne-Consumer
- DocOne-Default
- DocOne-Deposit
- DocOne-Forms
- DocOne-HE
- DocOne-Indirect
- DocOne-IRA

The <li/> appear in any output that uses these Audience attribute values in the selected Profiling Setting. Values not included in the Profiling Setting will not appear in the resultant output.

### For more information

See the following:

- Setting up Profiling Sets
- DITA Maps Manager view
- The oXygen Menus

## Attachments:

Profiling-Attribute.png (image/png)
Profiling-Attribute-toolbar.png (image/png)
Profiling-Attributes-Checkbox.png (image/png)