VideosWhat's New in Oxygen XML Editor 23

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This video presents some of the most requested and exciting new features added in Oxygen 23, the most powerful and comprehensive version of the Oxygen suite of products to date.

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00:00:052020 has certainly been a unique and challenging year for all of us, but

00:00:10the Oxygen team persevered and we are very proud to announce the release of Oxygen 23,

00:00:16the most powerful and comprehensive version of the Oxygen suite of products to date.

00:00:21Here are some of the highlights of the most requested and exciting new features.

00:00:27As always, we focused a lot of attention on requests submitted by the ever-expanding

00:00:32DITA community to make the authoring experience in Oxygen even more efficient and dynamic.

00:00:38For example, a new option called “Allow referenced submaps to be edited”

00:00:44can be enabled in the DITA – Maps preferences page ...

00:00:48and after reopening the DITA map, you now have the ability to edit submaps directly

00:00:54in the DITA Maps Manager view without needing to open them in their own tab.

00:01:00Similarly, a new option called “Allow referenced content to be edited”

00:01:06can be enabled in the Author preferences page...

00:01:10and this means that when you use the “Open Map in Editor with Resolved Topics” button from

00:01:16the DITA Maps Manager’s toolbar, the DITA map is opened in the main editor with the content

00:01:21from all referenced topics expandable and editable directly in the editor.

00:01:29A new option was also added in the DITA preferences page to enable DITA 2.0 editing support.

00:01:38This, for instance, makes it possible to create DITA 2.0

00:01:42maps and topics from the new document wizard.

00:01:49Oxygen now includes a dynamic feature where certain editing events will trigger

00:01:54a floating toolbar with common editing actions that are available in the current context.

00:01:58This increases your productivity by making your DITA editing experience even more efficient.

00:02:08On the DITA publishing side... You now have the ability to run

00:02:13multiple DITA-OT or Ant transformation scenarios simultaneously. This helps to reduce the amount

00:02:20of time it takes for the publishing engine to finish transforming large projects.

00:02:33After configuring the transformation scenarios however you like...

00:02:37when more than one is selected in the configuration dialog box,

00:02:42you then have access to a new option to Run the transformations in parallel.

00:02:50Image maps are now fully supported in CSS-based PDF output.

00:02:55When configuring the DITA Map to PDF based on HTML5 & CSS transformation scenario,

00:03:02you now have access to a few new parameters that instruct the publishing engine to show

00:03:06the shapes and numbers over the top of the published image.

00:03:25In the output, the shapes and numbers are rendered as clickable areas within the image

00:03:30and the list of links are presented below it.

00:03:36The development team continued to integrate and improve various

00:03:39add-ons that extend Oxygen’s functionality.

00:03:42A vast amount of improvements and new features have been added to the Git Client since the last major release. One example is a new toolbar button

00:03:50that opens the Git Branch Manager side view. It presents all the local and remote branches

00:03:56as a tree. You can double-click to switch to that branch and various actions were added to

00:04:02the contextual menu to make it very easy to check out branches, and to create or delete branches.

00:04:10A new Terminology Checker add-on is now available. You can create a terminology file with a set of

00:04:16rules for each term and flagged terms are displayed in a Terminology Helper view.

00:04:22This view offers some contextual menu actions for replacing the highlighted content...

00:04:27and flagged terms are also highlighted in the main editor pane

00:04:30where an inline drop-down menu offers proposals for replacing the term.

00:04:38Another new add-on is available that provides support for helping translators.

00:04:43It provides access to contextual menu action to show the current content

00:04:48in a Translator Helper side-view. You can then replace the content in the

00:04:52editor pane with translated content and compare them side by side.

00:04:57Oxygen's implementation of the diff and merge support in the

00:05:00Eclipse plugin now includes a text-based mode. There are several ways to trigger a comparison

00:05:06and you can even do a 3-way comparison if a common ancestor exists.

00:05:12It automatically opens the comparison in the visual mode, but there is now a toolbar button

00:05:17for switching to the text-based mode... and it has the same features and options

00:05:23that are available in the file comparison tool included in the standalone version of Oxygen.

00:05:31As usual, we did not forget about our JSON users.

00:05:36You can now edit JSON and JSON Schema documents in the visual Author editing mode and you have

00:05:42access to the various features and actions that are available for XML documents.

00:05:47For example, it has content completion and validation support...

00:05:56you can use form controls or inline editing widgets...

00:06:00and you can query properties and values using XPath expressions.

00:06:09Oxgyen now includes a handy tool for generating documentation for a JSON Schema file.

00:06:16Once you specify the path to the JSON Schema and the output

00:06:20file path, the documentation is generated in HTML format.

00:06:29A variety of exciting new features were added for the innovative online Oxygen XML Web Author.

00:06:37Over the past few years, one of the most requested features from Web Author users

00:06:41has been the ability for teams to edit and review content concurrently.

00:06:46You can share your editing session by sending its URL to other collaborators...

00:06:52and then you and your colleagues can edit and review the same document simultaneously.

00:06:59The concurrent editing session continues as long as you keep the document open

00:07:03and the person who originally shared the session is the only one who can save the document.

00:07:14A new option was added in the DITA Map Display Mode drop-down menu to Edit Topic Content.

00:07:21The DITA map is then displayed with its content from all referenced topics expanded and you can

00:07:26edit the referenced content directly.

00:07:31Web Author now includes a dynamic feature where certain editing events will trigger a floating toolbar.

00:07:39It includes editing actions that are available in the current editing context. This increases

00:07:45your productivity by giving you easier access to the most common editing and styling actions.

00:07:54You now have the ability to transform Web Author content to PDF.

00:07:58Oxygen PDF Chemistry is used behind the scenes to produce

00:08:02the PDF and it is customizable using CSS.

00:08:13and paste it into an external application and the HTML structure is preserved.

00:08:21It is now easier to open links within documents, simply by using the Control Click shortcut...

00:08:29and it opens the link in a new browser tab.

00:08:35Support was added for Bitbucket Server integrations.

00:08:40You can commit changes in a document to the Bitbucket repository...

00:08:47and after a successful commit...

00:08:52you then have the option to view it on the Bitbucket server.

00:08:57These were just some of the most highly anticipated new features added in version 23.

00:09:03For a complete list of all the additions, updates, and implementations,

00:09:07go to our What's New page on our website.

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