How to set up profiling attributes for many users

[bmayer]

Hi,

We use oXygen as an Eclipse plugin for authoring DITA XML documents. We use a lot of profiling attributes for the DITA document type and the audience, platform, product, and otherprops attributes. We have many users and I'd like to "automate" the set up of profiling attributes if possible. Right now we maintain a spreadsheet of what each user should enter when they install Eclipse and oXygen for the first time. Since we have over 100 profiling attributes, it gets tedious for each user to manually enter them. I was wondering if there's a file we can maintain and users just import that file or we copy it to their eclipse plugin folder so they don't have to do the profiling attribute set up? If I could just give them what I have set up that would simplify things.

Thanks,
Belinda

[Radu]

Hi Belinda,

Here are some possible approaches:

1) In the "Profiling/Conditional Text" preferences page you have a button called "Import from DITAVAL".
If you have enough DITAVAL filter files in your project in order for Oxygen to detect all profiling attributes and values from them, then this is a possible approach.

2) There is the possibility to export a set of default options and then place them in each user's Eclipse installation. These options will be automatically loaded by the user's preferences only if he has not modified them in any way (or if he has pressed "Restore Defaults" in the page):

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editorE ... tions.html

In the main Oxygen Preferences page there are also buttons to import and export global options. But importing global options will overwrite all other options the users might have.

3) In Oxygen 15.0 which we are working on releasing in a couple of days you will be able to define a Subject Scheme map in which you specify all the profiling attributes and values. Then when the subject scheme map will be referenced in the main DITA Map Oxygen will use the attributes specified there for profiling so you will not need to configure anything in the preferences. We'll also have a video demonstration on this when you'll receive the 15.0 notification email.

Regards,
Radu