Visual structure with links/conrefs of the project
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:23 pm
I was asked by a co-worker a view days ago, if there is a graphical view (or kind of a tree view) for a DITA project, that shows all the relations between the files, links, conrefs a.s.o of a ditamap. The "outline" view provides already a lot of information, but not everything we sometimes need.
I did a quick search, but couldn't find a plugin or a build-in function for this, but please let me know if there is already one.
The user story is quite simple: when editing any part, that is pulled to one or more files via conref, it is quite easy to break something logically or make something wired out of it at the destination. In order to avoid that, we're checking all destinations manually by searching the ID at the moment - which is quite time consuming. Moreover, it happens sometimes that I simply forget that (for instance) a table or a concept gets pulled by a conref.
The tree view should include:
Regards,
Bernhard
I did a quick search, but couldn't find a plugin or a build-in function for this, but please let me know if there is already one.
The user story is quite simple: when editing any part, that is pulled to one or more files via conref, it is quite easy to break something logically or make something wired out of it at the destination. In order to avoid that, we're checking all destinations manually by searching the ID at the moment - which is quite time consuming. Moreover, it happens sometimes that I simply forget that (for instance) a table or a concept gets pulled by a conref.
The tree view should include:
- The files included in the ditamap.
- The links between the files.
- Especially conref (pull) destinations.
Regards,
Bernhard