New Release IXIA CCMS 7.4

Enhanced Image Management for Smarter Workflows

Managing images has never been easier. IXIA CCMS V7.4 simplifies every aspect of image handling, saving time and reducing errors.

• Standalone Image Creation: Create and manage images as standalone objects, ensuring easy reuse across projects.
• Edit Images Directly from Topics: Open and edit images without navigating through dependencies, streamlining your editing workflow.
• Thumbnail Previews in Datagrids: Quickly locate the right image with thumbnail previews, reducing search time and ensuring accuracy.

Flexible Content Delivery with Push Map Options

Customize how content moves across branches with adaptable options to suit your needs.

• Optional Push Map Children: Choose whether to include dependencies when pushing maps, aligning with your unique workflow.
• Automatic Build Manifest Pushing: Simplify project delivery by automating the inclusion of build manifests with maps.

Maximize Content Reuse with Advanced Search and Sorting

Quickly/Easily locate and reuse content with advanced filtering and sorting tools. 

• Datagrid-Enhanced Conref Dialog: Locate reusable content quickly with sortable, filterable search results. 

Proactive Link Validation for Accurate Content 

Ensure documentation accuracy with tools to identify out-of-scope links.

• Identify out-of-scope links on-demand or during status changes, addressing potential issues before publication. 
• Flexibly review flagged links to ensure they align with project needs or confidently continue with your workflow. 

Accelerate Content updates with Search and Replace

The new Search and Replace drives operational efficiency by reducing manual content management, leading to faster time-to-market for your products and services.

• Minimize Manual Work, Reduce GTM Time and Costs: Streamline large-scale content updates in seconds, allowing your team to reallocate resources to higher-value initiatives.
• Ensure Compliance and Consistency: Search and Replace enables fast, precise updates, reducing the risk of non-compliance and maintaining consistency across all your content—at scale.
• Boost Productivity and Collaboration: Streamline repetitive updates and enable cross-team access to review and replace content, aligning with organizational goals and delivering better results, faster.

Enhanced Control in Search Results

Customize displayed search results, improving the management, viewing, and exporting of large-scale content. This feature streamlines finding and exporting data for more efficient workflows with extensive datasets.

• Specify results to display up to 1,000, improving usability and performance.
• Use infinite scroll for additional results beyond 1,000.
• Export complete results by loading all results more rapidly.

Redline Collaborative Reviews in Translation

IXIA CCMS 7.3 enhances redlining for Collaborative Reviews, enabling users to compare a CR against a previous Language Manifest within the same language and map instance. This feature simplifies tracking changes in translations, helping to streamline reviews while ensuring consistency and quality in your content.

• Redline a Collaborative Review against a previous translation for easy comparison.
• Quickly identify new or modified content requiring updated translations.
• Streamline translation workflows and ensure consistency in multilingual content.

Context Map Selection for Collaborative Reviews

You now have the flexibility to select a parent map as the context for Collaborative Reviews. This means you can review smaller sections while still resolving key references from a parent bookmap, ensuring all relevant content is included for review.

• Select parent maps for context when creating Collaborative Reviews.
• Ensure key definitions and references are included for accurate reviews.
• Streamline smaller, targeted reviews with all necessary contexts.

Simplified Object Deletion

IXIA CCMS 7.3 introduces a simplified delete function, allowing you to delete eligible objects that meet specific criteria.

• Delete objects that are not locked, have no parent dependencies, and exist only in editable branches.
• Ensure secure deletion by adhering to strict permissions and branch controls.
• Deleted objects are moved to a secure cycle and can be restored through Eclipse if needed.

Performance Enhancements with Data Grid for Object Insertion

IXIA CCMS 7.3 improves the user experience by replacing banner-style search results with a faster, sortable, and filterable data grid for Insert Objects and ConRef Search. This update helps users quickly find the exact object or reference needed.

• Achieve faster performance and improved results display using a data grid.
• Sort and filter search results for quick access to specific objects.
• Select and take action on grid columns.

Transform Your Writing with Oxygen AI Positron Assistant

This add-on brings advanced AI-powered actions directly to your Oxygen editor, enhancing your content creation with precision and efficiency. 

• Secure AI Conversations: AI Positron Enterprise connects seamlessly to your OpenAI or MS Azure account. 
• Intelligent Content Generation: Use AI to generate short descriptions, correct grammar, and improve readability. Enjoy features like preview, edit, and insert AI-generated content directly into your documents, ensuring polished and professional outputs every time. 
• Customizable AI Instructions: Record complex instructions for the AI to follow and save them as favorite chat prompts or custom AI Positron actions. This allows for tailored AI responses that meet your unique requirements, enhancing efficiency and accuracy. 

Polished and Professional Content

Introducing the new multi-file Spell Check feature in MadCap IXIA CCMS. This powerful tool allows you to check the spelling of multiple topics selected from any view (search results, map structure, etc.), individual topics or entire maps, ensuring that your content is always polished and professional. Based on the advanced capabilities of Language Tool*, this feature marks a significant improvement over previous systems, offering a robust and comprehensive approach to maintaining the quality of your text. 

_{* Language Tool is an open-source 3^rd-party extension} 

Streamline Workflow Management   

Boost your project workflows with the new Bulk Check In/Out feature in MadCap IXIA CCMS. Now, you can check out multiple objects simultaneously, adding them to the Bulk Basket for a clear overview of their status. Once your editing is complete, use the Bulk Check In function to streamline your updates, ensuring everything is checked in at once for maximum efficiency. This feature is perfect for collaborative work on multiple topics.

Seamless Special Character Integration 

Say goodbye to the hassle of character maps and the imprecision of Alt key combinations. The new Oxygen Charpicker plugin is now a standard part of IXIA CCMS Web. Simply click the new toolbar icon to open the Charpicker and select from a grid of recently used characters to seamlessly insert special characters into your Oxygen topics.

Enhanced Map Interaction 

Transform how you interact with maps in Content view with the new Oxygen Outline plugin. This feature provides a dynamic outline view, displaying the tree structure of your map and automatically updating as changes occur. Easily expand nodes to explore the map's hierarchy and quickly find specific topics. Scroll to the selected topic with a single click on the topic in the map view.