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Inserting Links in DITA Content

Prerequisites: Users must have permissions to check in and out assets in the CMS Assets Manager. See Creating Groups for details to set permissions.

Users can employ the Oxygen Desktop Plugin to insert CMS asset links in CMS DITA document assets directly.

Important

To insert links to other CMS content stored in the CMS Assets Manager, ensure the DITA root folder (i.e., the folder assigned to the rootFolderID that you provided during plugin installation) contains the folder where that content resides.

To insert CMS asset links in CMS DITA content via the Oxygen Desktop Plugin:

Open the Oxygen XML Editor application.
Check out the DITA content item in Oxygen XML Editor.
The item checks out in the CMS and displays in the main pane Editor. An unlock icon displays next to the checked-out item in the Ingeniux CMS Browser tree.
Ensure Author mode displays as selected in the bottom-left area of the main pane.
Select an area within the content item that allows image insertions, and choose one of the following steps.
- Click the Link button in the toolbar, and select Cross Reference... in the drop-down menu.
- Press ENTER on your keyboard, and enter the initial letters of xref in the text field. Click the xref (cross reference) entry that displays in the results list.
The Cross reference (xref) dialog displays.
Choose one of the following steps.
- Insert a link to the DITA content item's location by selecting the Location option.
  1. Click the folder drop-down arrow in the Location field, and select Browse CMS Content.
    The Select CMS Resource dialog displays.
  2. Navigate to the link to insert in the tree folder structure, and click OK.
    The dialog closes.
- Insert a key to the DITA content by selecting the Key option.
  1. Click the Choose Key Reference button.
  2. Choose a key from the list, and click OK.
Click Insert and close.
The link reference displays in the content item.
Additional Information
Note the following.
When you select Text mode in the Oxygen XML Editor UI, the <xref> element's @href attribute value displays the DITA content item's filepath.
When you navigate to the CMS Assets Manager UI to view the asset in the Edit tab, the <xref> element's @href attribute value displays the DITA document asset's a/ID.
The plugin displays the <xref> filepaths as @href values so that the references validate in the Oxygen XML Editor UI. The system stores the a/IDs in the CMS Assets Manager so that users can always move, rename, and perform other operations on assets in the CMS UI. This way, the values always update to the correct reference after users reload the Oxygen XML Editor UI or Ingeniux CMS UI.