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Working with DITA
This section provides information and instructions about how to author content using IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop.
Creating links
You can provide links to reference other topics in a variety of ways.
Creating a relationship table
These procedures tell you how to use relationship tables.
Relationship table examples
This section contains some concrete examples of how to use relationship tables.

CCMS Desktop User Guide
- Introduction
- Overview of the Desktop CMS
  This section provides a brief explanation of what DITA is and an overview of the IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop interface.
- Getting Started
  This section provides a starting point for working with IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop.
- Working with DITA
  This section provides information and instructions about how to author content using IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop.
  - Working with objects
    This set of topics describes the functions common to all objects.
  - Working with DITA maps
  - Working with topics
    Topics are the building blocks for document deliverables.
  - Working with images
    This section provides the procedures to manage images for different types of output.
  - Working with resources
    Resources are document objects that support a documentation project. For example, schedule charts could be added as a reference resource for a project with a long and complex timeline.
  - Creating links
    You can provide links to reference other topics in a variety of ways.
    - Creating a relationship table
      These procedures tell you how to use relationship tables.
      - Open the Reltable Editing Perspective from the DITA Map view's menu
        This procedure opens the Reltable Editing Perspective from the DITA Map view's pull-down menu.
      - Open the Reltable Editing Perspective from the main menu bar
        This procedure tells you how to open the Relationship Table Editing Perspective.
      - The Reltable Editing Perspective
        IXIASOFT CCMS offers a view designed expressly for working with DITA relationship tables.
      - Construct relationship tables
        These procedures deal with the basics of setting up reltables.
      - Configure relationship tables
        This section deals with operations such as changing the cell types and configuring link directions.
      - Locate reltable rows where a topic is used
        You can use the Relationship Outline view to locate the rows where one or more topics appear.
      - Filter reltable rows in the Table Display area
        You can use the Filter field of the Table Display area to locate specific rows in the reltables in your map.
      - Relationship table examples
        This section contains some concrete examples of how to use relationship tables.
        
        Reltable example one: CRT row structure
        Once you’ve inserted a reltable into a map, you’ll start adding rows. IXIASOFT CCMS offers several types of pre-configured rows.
        
        Reltable example one: CRT row output
        This topic shows the Changing your Oil topic as it would appear in HTML Help.
        
        Reltable example two: links are between cells – not within cells
        When you add topics to a relationship table cell, those topics link to the topics in the other cells – not to each other.
        
        Reltable example three: linking topics of the same type
        If you want links between two topics of the same type – two concepts, for example – you can put them into a family type of topic group.
        
        Reltable example four: linking direction
        You can override the default linking direction.
        
        Reltable example five: creating sequences
        You can use a reltable to dynamically create a set of numbered steps from the required topic titles.
    - Creating cross-references (xref)
      You can insert link inside topics, between topics, and to documents outside the Content Store.
    - Create related links from one topic to another
      This procedure uses a text editor to put a group of links to related topics into the current topic.
    - Create related links to external files or web sites
      This procedure uses a text editor to put a series of links to related topics on remote systems or to files outside the repository.
  - Applying conditions (profiling and conditional processing)
    Conditional attributes let you tailor the same document for different requirements.
  - Using conrefs and keyrefs
    IXIASOFT CCMS provides multiple features that allow you to easily reuse content.
- Using CMS features
  This section provides information and instructions about how to use CMS functionality to perform other actions with the objects in the CMS.
- Localizing documents
  This section provides information and instructions about how to manage localization.
- Glossary
- Shortcut keys
  Shortcut keys let you perform many routine actions with just two or three keystrokes.

Relationship table examples

This section contains some concrete examples of how to use relationship tables.

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