Upgrading the IXIASOFT plugins

  1. Go to the 6.3 area of the IXIASOFT Downloads site:
  2. Click the CCMS_Desktop folder.
  3. Click the Dropins_version folder where version is the latest version.
  4. Download the required dropins.
    Note: Because packages may have a different list of plugins in them, download only the new version of plugins that already exist in the folder.

    The available plugins are:

    Plugin name Description Required
    com.ixiasoft.eclipse.​dita-cms Provides the main functionality.

    Required in every package.

    com.ixiasoft.eclipse.​ReleaseManagement Provides functionality for IXIASOFT Dynamic Release Management.

    Required only if your deployment includes the DRM add-on.

    com.ixiasoft.eclipse.​oxygen.author

    OR

    com.ixiasoft.eclipse.​oxygen.editor

    Provides the CCMS Desktop context menus in the Oxygen XML Editor installed in Eclipse. It also installs the IXIASOFT CCMS Desktop User Guide online help. Each package requires one of these plugins.

    com.ixiasoft.textml.​textmladmin

    AND

    com.ixiasoft.eclipse.​dita-cms-admin

    Together, these two plugins enable a user administer the CCMS:
    • The textml.textmladmin plugin allows users to interact with the IXIASOFT TEXTML Server component.
    • The eclipse.dita-cms-admin plugin provides access to the CCMS administration tools.
    Optional. Required only in packages for CCMS Administrators.
    Note: Both plugins are required for CCMS Administrators.
  5. In the %packagesfolder%\dropins folder of your Eclipse packaging directory, do the following:
    1. Create a subfolder named after each of the new plugins.
      For example:
      C:\temp\desktop-packages\prod\dropins\com.ixiasoft.dita-cms-[build version]

      Where [version] is the number of the release and [build version] is the number of the software build.

    2. Extract the content of the downloaded IXIASOFT plugins to the new folders that are named after them.
    Once completed, the structure should be similar to the following example, which shows a package with the DRM and Oxygen plugins:
    Dropins structure
  6. Delete the following old plugins from %packagesfolder%\dropins:
    1. com.ixiasoft.eclipse.dita-cms-<old-version>
    2. com.ixiasoft.eclipse.dita-cms-admin-<old-version>
    3. com.ixiasoft.eclipse.oxygen.author-<old-version>
    4. com.ixiasoft.eclipse.oxygen.editor-<old-version>
    5. com.ixiasoft.eclipse.ReleaseManagement-<old-version>