Manage a DITA Map

You may want to manage your DITA maps in a number of ways. For instance, you may want:

Changing the Order and Nesting of Topics in a Map

You can change the order and nesting of the topics in a map in several ways:
  • By dragging and dropping topics within the DITA Maps Manager
  • By highlighting a topic in the DITA Maps Manager, holding down the Alt key, and pressing the arrow keys
  • By showing the extended DITA Maps Manager toolbar (press the settings icon on the DITA Maps Manager toolbar and select the extended toolbar) and then using the arrow keys on the toolbar to move topics around on the map

Add and Remove Topics from a Map

You can add or remove topics from a map in a number of ways. Some ways to remove a topic from a map include:
  • Highlight the topic and press Delete
  • Highlight the topic and click the Delete button on the DITA Maps Manager extended toolbar

Add Keys to Topic in a Map

You can add keys to topics in a map by right-clicking on an item in the map and choosing Edit Properties....

Profiling Sections of a Map

You can profile (make conditional) any section of a map by adding one or more profiling attributes to the topics in a map. In the hierarchical structure of a map, any profiling applied to a topic that has children applies to those children as well. You cannot include a child topic if its parent topic is excluded.