Advice: Reorganizing DITA File Structure
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 7:30 pm
Greetings, all. I'm tasked with a project, and I'd appreciate advice from the forum on the best way to approach the job. I'm pretty new to DITA, but have plenty of IT experience. Here's a rundown...
Currently, all of our DITA files are stored in a single file folder. There are over eight thousand files consisting of .xml, .ditamap, .jpg, and .png files. The only real structure to this is that each filename begins with a section number to indicate which section of the ditamap the file belongs in. For example:
01topicfile.xml, 01imagefile.jpg, 03anothertopic.xml, 03anotherimagefile.jpg, 03anotherimagefile02.jpg, and so on.
I am going to take all of these files, and move them to a file with structure, organized by sections, with separate folders for the bookmaps and section ditamaps. Here's what the finished product should look like:
+REPOSITORY
---+01
-----+01images
---+02
-----+02images
---+03
-----+03images
---+bookmaps
---+sectionditamaps
Obviously, when I make this move, I'm going to have orphaned files all over the place. I've started my initial testing, and have found that the cleanup is going to be immense. So I wonder if some of you might have some time-saving suggestions on how to move these files into the file new structure. The tools available to me are the full Oxygen 18.0 suite, as well as Adobe Framemaker, which I use generally only use for layout work.
I appreciate any advice as I slowly shed my newbie status!
Cheers,
Dan
Currently, all of our DITA files are stored in a single file folder. There are over eight thousand files consisting of .xml, .ditamap, .jpg, and .png files. The only real structure to this is that each filename begins with a section number to indicate which section of the ditamap the file belongs in. For example:
01topicfile.xml, 01imagefile.jpg, 03anothertopic.xml, 03anotherimagefile.jpg, 03anotherimagefile02.jpg, and so on.
I am going to take all of these files, and move them to a file with structure, organized by sections, with separate folders for the bookmaps and section ditamaps. Here's what the finished product should look like:
+REPOSITORY
---+01
-----+01images
---+02
-----+02images
---+03
-----+03images
---+bookmaps
---+sectionditamaps
Obviously, when I make this move, I'm going to have orphaned files all over the place. I've started my initial testing, and have found that the cleanup is going to be immense. So I wonder if some of you might have some time-saving suggestions on how to move these files into the file new structure. The tools available to me are the full Oxygen 18.0 suite, as well as Adobe Framemaker, which I use generally only use for layout work.
I appreciate any advice as I slowly shed my newbie status!
Cheers,
Dan