DITAworks Webtop and DITAworks Cloud have introduced new features, the main ones being version control, branch and baseline management and history revision management. Other than these, a number of smaller features and improvements have also been introduced.
July 22, 2014, Stuttgart, Germany - The recent releases of DITAworks Webtop and Cloud, DITA CMSes for DITA authoring and publishing, include a number of new and improved features, including new functionality in terms of branch management, baseline management, revision history control, faster review process, and working in context of an organization structure in the repository. An overview of the changes is given as follows.
Branch Management
Branch management makes creating and removing branches and sub-branches possible. Branching offers a way to work on a new branch without affecting the parent branch. Creating a new branch will entail a full copy of parent branch with creation of links between objects in the parent-child branches for the merge, if needed.
Baseline Management
Baseline management is a lightweight version of a branch management. In this case, the parent branch content does not copy fully to the baseline (like it does in the branch creation case), only the content indexes do. Baseline, in this case, will be a snapshot of the system with a possibility to make content changes if needed and also to switch baseline objects versions to another available in the history revision. There will also be a possibility to open the system in the baseline context, browse the repository, make a search, and publish the content at the state where the baseline was created.
Other Changes
There have also been many other changes as well. Now, it’s possible to see and manage all the revision history of any repository object in the current branch. The users can also quickly preview content revisions and the differences between them. A new trash mechanism has been introduced so that the deleted objects are recoverable. The reviewing mechanism has been upgraded with the possibility of single click acceptance or rejection of comments and changes made by a reviewer.
For further information about DITAworks CMS, go to www.ditaworks.com.
For a video representation of the changes, go to www.youtube.com/user/DITAworksVideo.
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