DITA Best Practices : Profiling Attributes: turning on/off

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 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