VideosAdvanced Profiling Using Conditional Processing Attribute Groups

Overview

Duration: 05:17
This video presents Oxygen's support for conditional profiling attribute groups, a feature that was introduced in version 21.0. The video shows how to create and use custom attribute groups for filtering and flagging content in the interface and the output.

Transcript

00:00:07In this video demonstration I will present the support for conditional profiling attribute
00:00:12groups that was added to Oxygen in version 21.0.
00:00:17Conditional processing attributes can be specified using grouped values and this is intended
00:00:22for situations where an attribute applies to multiple specialized subcategories.
00:00:28To demonstrate this, I'm using a sample project about garage tasks and concepts.
00:00:33For the purposes of profiling my project
00:00:37I've decided that, the default profiling attribute values are not sufficient because
00:00:41some of the tasks require an increased level of skill in two different fields of expertise.
00:00:47For example, "Changing the oil" is a task that should be done by a skilled mechanic...
00:00:53...and similarly, "Spray painting" should be done by a skilled painter.
00:01:00To achieve my goals, I will use the default 'audience' attribute, but create a new attribute
00:01:06group called "skilled" with the values of "mechanic" and "painter" used as
00:01:10the subcategories.
00:01:13The first thing I need to do is to define that attribute group.
00:01:17So, I'll go to the Profiling/ Conditional text preferences page
00:01:23...and I'll edit the "Audience" attribute
00:01:27and add my new "Skilled " group with the "mechanic" and "painter" values.
00:01:36Now I can use the newly created attribute group values to profile my DITA map and topics.
00:01:42The "Changing the oil ..." topic is intended for a skilled mechanic audience...
00:01:51...and the "Spray painting" topic is intended for a skilled painter audience.
00:02:00Note that the profiled topics now have the proper attribute values displayed in the DITA Maps Manager.
00:02:10These new values can also be used for profiling elements inside a topic.
00:02:24For the purposes of filtering content in the published output, I will use a DITAVAL filtering file.
00:02:30So, I'll create a new DITAVAL file...
00:02:35I want to exclude all content profiled for the "skilled" attribute group from the output.
00:02:46Now I'll save the DITAVAL file in a new directory and give it an appropriate name.
00:03:02Now I want to apply the filter on top of my ditamap to visualize the result, so I need
00:03:08to to create a condition set based upon the filter file I just created.
00:03:13This is also done in the Profiling/ Conditional text Preferences page.
00:03:21Note that the filter has been applied and the two topics profiled for the skilled audience
00:03:26are now filtered out.
00:03:30The content inside the topic is also filtered.
00:03:34I can further refine the filter...
00:03:37For example, suppose that I want to create output intended for a 'painter' audience
00:03:42I want to exclude the content that was profiled for the "mechanic" subcategory
00:03:47and I also want to mark the content profiled specifically for the "painter" audience so that it stands out.
00:03:54I can do this by using the 'flag' action and assigning a value for the color and background color.
00:04:05Now, after I have refreshed the DITA Maps Manager...
00:04:08I can see that only the topic profiled for the mechanic audience is filtered out
00:04:13and the content of the 'painter' audience is marked with the colors that I specified
00:04:18The DITAVAL file I just created can also be used when running a DITA map completeness check.
00:04:24If I click the action from the DITA Maps Manager toolbar, you can see that the applied DITAVAL
00:04:30file is automatically selected.
00:04:32Now I'll execute t he validation operation...
00:04:34... and I see that there is a problem in my DITA map.
00:04:39One of the topics contains a reference that isn't profiled properly because it points to a topic that
00:04:44was filtered out by the by the DITA Val.
00:04:48To solve the issue, I'll just profile the reference to match the mechanic audience.
00:04:59Then I'll run the completeness check again.
00:05:05And the issue is now solved.
00:05:08This concludes the demonstration, as always, thanks for watching.

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