Apply new profiling attributes

Profiling lets you identify conditional text so that you can produce more than one version of a document when the versions differ in minor ways. Applying profiling attributes are helpful when you want to include all the ways a document varies in one component and select the variations you want to use for a specific output at production or publication time.

The last time you applied an attribute, Inspire remembered it. You can choose to re-apply the last profiling attribute you used. This is helpful if you don't want to select a new attribute and just use the last one you applied.

Follow the steps in Re-apply the last used profiling attribute.

To apply a new profiling attribute:

  1. Click Components_TopMenuOpt Components.
  2. In the Folders pane, locate the component that you want to add a profiling attribute to.
  3. In the Components pane, right-click the component and then select Edit...
    You can access the same menu by clicking Action_Menu the Options menu.
  4. Select text in the editor where you want to apply the profiling attribute.
  5. In the toolbar, click Oxygen_ProfilingAttributes the Update Profiling Attributes menu , and select Update Profiling Attributes.
    To update profiling attributes, you can also use the key combination of Ctrl + Alt + P.
  6. On the Update profiling attributes dialog, attribute categories are shown in bold, and all values are listed beneath.

    If the Update profiling attributes screen is blank, it means that text you selected is in a DITA element that doesn't allow for the use of profiling attributes. Select another DITA element or move the text to an element that allows for the use of profiling attributes.

    To find the attribute value you need, you can collapse categories and avoid scrolling through all sub-options. To use expand and collapse options, do any of the following:

    • To collapse all sub-options under a category, click the collapse all button .
    • To expand all category sub-options again, click the expand all button .
    • To collapse one category, click the blue down arrow .
    • To expand one category, click the blue sideways arrow .
  7. Select the checkbox next to the attribute or value you want to apply to the element.
    • If the option you select is listed in another category, Inspire selects it there automatically for you.
    • The number of options you select is listed after the category name.
    • You can select as many attributes and values that you need.
    • To automatically select all values for an attribute, select the attribute's checkbox.
    • Use the blue arrow next to the attribute name to hide or show the attribute's values.
    • If you don't see a value you need, ask your administrator to add it.
  8. On the Update profiling attributes dialog, click Select.
    • Profiling attribute values are displayed in a yellow box below the green box.
    • You'll see the name of the attribute in blue, followed by the values inside the brackets [ ]. For example, in this tool tip ProfilingAtt_ToolTips_smallthe attribute is Platform and the values are Windows_10 and Windows_8