Understand Oxygen behavior

You can use the Oxygen-based editor to easily create and edit structured DITA and DocBook documents in an XML data format. If you are not working in a collaborative Review, your ability to access some Oxygen features can vary based on how they are configured by an administrator.

Oxygen features that can be configured by an administrator:

Administrators can follow the steps in: Grant permissions to options in Oxygen

Change tracking

This is an Oxygen feature that records and displays edits made to a component, such as insertions, deletions, and formatting changes, allowing users to see the history of revisions and to accept or reject them.

By default:

  • The Change Tracking option is not turned on in the Oxygen editor.
  • You can make changes to text and they are NOT highlighted.
  • You can turn Change Tracking on

An administrator can force Change tracking to work in one of the following ways for specific users and roles:

  • Force Change Tracking to stay on: All changes are highlighted and Change Tracking cannot be turned off.
  • Force Change tracking to stay off: No changes are highlighted, and Change Tracking cannot be turned on.

Accept and reject changes

Users can go through each proposed change and either accept it to incorporate it into the text or reject it to keep the text as it was before the change.

By default:

  • All users can see and use the Accept and Reject action buttons
  • All users can see and use the Accept All and Reject All buttons at the bottom of the Review pane

An administrator can disable the use of these Accept and Reject options for specific users and roles.

Delete another user's comments

Oxygen provides a collaboration tool in the Review pane that attaches a comment to a specific piece of text so you can provide feedback, ask questions, or submit ideas without altering the actual content.

By default: The Remove button is NOT active in a comment when the current user editing the component did not create the comment.

An administrator can allow the Remove button to be active even if he current user editing the component did not create the comment.

Edit the XML source code directly

Direct source editing provides complete control over every element, attribute, and character within the XML structure. This level of precision is often necessary for complex configurations, schema adherence, or fine-tuning.

By default: Any user can select the More... menu, and then Edit XML Source.

An administrator can hide the Edit XML Source option for specific users and roles.