DITA Map Author Mode Actions

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).

DITA Map Drag/Drop Actions

Dragging a file from the Project view or DITA Maps Manager view and dropping it into a DITA map document that is edited in Author mode creates a link to the dragged file (a topicref element, chapter, part, etc.) at the drop location.