Evaluate for Free

Seeing the list of benefits, taking the tour, and watching the demo video is all helpful, but nothing compares to experiencing the actual product for yourself. If you are a Content Author with a licensed copy of Oxygen XML Editor/Author, see first-hand how Oxygen Content Fusion can improve your documentation review process by trying it free for 60 days.

To fully take advantage of all of the benefits and features, your organization will need an Oxygen Content Fusion Enterprise Server. This solution allows you to host, setup, and configure your own server and control your data. With this model, you are also able to upload custom frameworks and plugins, and to configure various settings.

You can also evaluate Content Fusion by using our Evaluation Server that is hosted by Oxygen with a default configuration.

Open Task Manager and Connect to the Server

Step 1

Click the Show Content Fusion Task Manager toolbar button (or go to Window->Show View->Content Fusion Tasks Manager) to open the Content Fusion Task Manager view.

Step 2

Select the Evaluation option if you want to use the Hosted Evaluation Server or select the Enterprise option and enter the server address if you are using your own Enterprise Server.

Step 3

Click the Connect button to open the Content Fusion interface in your default browser, click SIGN UP, and follow the instructions to create your account. When finished, click Authorize.

Create a Review Task

Step 1

Open a document in Oxygen XML Editor/Author. There are a variety of sample documents and projects located in the samples folder located in the Oxygen installation directory. For example, go to 'File->Open' and open [OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/samples/dita/mobile-phone/mobilePhone.ditamap (choose to open it in the 'DITA Maps Manager'), then open one of the topics (for example, Inserting the battery) in the main editor.

Step 2

Right-click anywhere in the document (in the main editing pane) and select Add File to Review Task. Note that there are several ways to add files to a review task. For example, you can also simply drag files from the DITA Maps Manager and drop them in the New Task box (in the Content Fusion Tasks Manager).

Step 3

Enter a name for the task in the Summary field.

Step 4

Click the Upload button to upload the review task to the Oxygen Content Fusion server.

Share Review Task

Step 1

Click on the name of the task you just created to open it in your default browser.

Step 2

Click the Share button to display a link to the task and click the Copy button to copy the link to the clipboard.

Step 3

Send the copied link to a Reviewer via email or another messaging system.

The Reviewer's Role

The Reviewers will use the link you sent them to open the task in their browser. Then they will click on any of the files attached to the task to open it in the visual editor where they can suggest changes and add comments to the files. They can communicate with the Content Author by adding messages in the left side of the interface and when they are finished, they will click the Finalize Review button to notify the Content Author that they are done with their review process.

Merge Changes in Oxygen

Step 1

Back in Oxygen XML Editor/Author, notice that the task box shows if there are new messages or file changes.

Step 2

Hover over the task box and click the Get changes link in the bottom right of the task box. This opens a tool for automatically integrating the changes back into the original files.

Step 3

Click Apply at the bottom of the Get Changes merge tool.

You will now see that the changes have been integrated into the original document in Oxygen XML Editor/Author.

For more instructions about using the product, see the Oxygen Content Fusion User Manual.