VideosWhat's New in Oxygen 24

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This video presents some of the most important and interesting new features and updates implemented in Oxygen 24. For a complete list of the additions, updates and implementations go to our What's New page: https://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew24.1.html

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00:00:04The highly anticipated release of version 24 of the Oxygen suite of products is here and we

00:00:11want to show you some of the most interesting and important new features and updates.

00:00:18DITA authors will notice that the validation button on the

00:00:21DITA Maps Manager's toolbar now has more options.

00:00:26You can now configure and run validation scenarios directly from the DITA Maps Manager.

00:00:31For instance, you could create a validation scenario that

00:00:34uses a custom set of schematron rules.

00:00:45For DITA-OT project files, there is also a new built-in validation and completeness

00:00:51check scenario that can be used to validate all contexts from a DITA-OT project file

00:00:59and you can see that there's a variety of options that can be configured.

00:01:09Some new XML refactoring actions were added that pertain specifically to DITA maps ...

00:01:16For example, you can easily convert a DITA map to a bookmap or vice versa ...

00:01:32another one allows you to change or remove a profiling attribute value ...

00:01:38it provides a simple wizard where you select the attribute and specify the new value ...

00:01:50and there's also a new operation that defines keys for all of a DITA map's topic references

00:01:56and converts each direct reference to a key reference in each DITA topic.

00:02:05There is new tags display mode that presents block

00:02:08tags without element names, for a more compact style.

00:02:15DITA publishers now have the ability to publish content from Oxygen to Zendesk.

00:02:21You would create a new DITA-OT transformation scenario and there is a now a new transformation

00:02:27type called Zendesk Help Center ... After configuring and applying the transformation,

00:02:36your content is published in the Zendesk Help Center in the specified category and section.

00:02:50It's now possible to dynamically convert non-DITA resources to DITA during publishing.

00:02:56For example, I have a Word document referenced in a DITA map. I can edit its properties and for

00:03:02the value of the format attribute you can see that there are now values for 'word-to-dita'.

00:03:12And after applying the transformation...

00:03:16You can see that it was converted to a DITA topic in the output.

00:03:22Numerous improvements were also added for PDF publishers. For example, this is the initial

00:03:29default layout for PDF files in my version of Acrobat Reader, but now I can impose a custom

00:03:34initial layout. In my custom CSS file, I've added some Oxygen-specific properties to impose a custom

00:03:42layout. And you can see that the result in the output is that my imposed layout has the pane

00:03:48on the right collapsed, a 2-page layout, and the toolbar is hidden ... through the

00:03:55use of some new security-related transformation parameters, you also have access to new security

00:04:01options, for example, to prevent the possibility of printing the document or copying content ...

00:04:12support was also added for rotating table content. I've set some custom rules in my CSS,

00:04:20and in the output, you see that the content in header cell

00:04:23is rotated and the content in the cells are centered.

00:04:29JSON developers will be happy to know that the support for editing JSON Schema

00:04:34documents was greatly enhanced. First off, a JSON Schema file template was added in

00:04:40the new file wizard to make it very easy to create JSON Schemas from scratch ...

00:04:51Notice that the new file was automatically open in the new Design mode that was added

00:04:55for JSON Schemas. ... it is an expressive diagram editor that is

00:05:01helpful for visualizing and editing both simple and complex JSON Schemas ... and you can edit

00:05:07component names and properties directly within the diagram or through contextual menu actions.

00:05:19Another example of a helpful improvement is that the diagrams that you see in

00:05:24Design mode are now also included in JSON Schema documentation that is generated in HTML format.

00:05:32For those who use command-line scripts for file or directory comparisons, you now have options for

00:05:38generating various reports that show the results of the comparison in various formats such as JSON,

00:05:43YAML, XML, or even HTML so that you can view the resulting reports in your browser.

00:05:56In Oxygen, you can use the new "Generate HTML Report for Directory Comparison" from the

00:06:02Tools menu to configure a similar comparison report that can be open in your browser.

00:06:10A specific example of one of the performance improvements that were added for this release

00:06:15helps to reduce the time it takes to load files at startup or when switching projects.

00:06:21Only the most recently used file from your previous session or project is loaded,

00:06:27while all other previously opened files are only shown as placeholder tabs

00:06:33but the content isn't loaded until you actually open that tab.

00:06:40Our developers continue to improve add-ons that extend Oxygen’s functionality.

00:06:46The Git Client is one of the most popular add-ons and some it's many enhancements include

00:06:51the ability to stash uncommitted changes locally so that you can use other Git operations in the

00:06:57meantime ... in the Git History view, you can create a tag for a particular commit, for example

00:07:05to mark a specific point in the commit history as being important or to mark a release point ...

00:07:13also, in the Git Branch Manager view, you can now merge one branch into another.

00:07:25A variety of exciting new features were also added for the innovative online Oxygen XML Web Author

00:07:32A new visual Merge Tool helps resolve conflicts when multiple users work with the same documents

00:07:38and commit changes to the same Git repository. It shows the 2 versions side-by-side with differences

00:07:44marked very clearly. It has some toolbar actions for changing the tags display mode ... navigating

00:07:52between the blocks of differences ... and copying changes from the right side file to the left.

00:08:05The left side pane is editable so, for example,

00:08:08you could copy a conflicting change from the right pane and manually merge

00:08:14the other person's change by pasting it in the appropriate location in the left pane.

00:08:25You can then commit the change made within the Merge tool

00:08:28to successfully resolve the conflict.

00:08:35The Web Author user interface was re-designed for a more modern look and feel. For example, the

00:08:41side-panes now have more vertical space (this is particularly helpful when custom views are added),

00:08:49the overal blending was improved for cases where Web Author is embedded in another

00:08:54application, and visual aspects of various components such as dialog boxes, buttons,

00:09:00and menus were also enhanced.

00:09:07There is also a new option in

00:09:09preferences where you can change the way tracked changes are presented.

00:09:14For instance, you can choose to show insertions in green and deletions in red.

00:09:26These were just highlights of a small number of the exciting new features added in Oxygen 24.

00:09:33For a complete list of all the additions, updates,

00:09:36and implementations, go to our What's New page on our website.

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