multi-object search and edit

Question

I'm a new community member. I am now using SDL Live Content Architect Publication Manager to manage technical user publications and their content. Is there an option to check-out, search, and edit multiple object in one view rather than checking out and editing each object in a separate edit window/instance. I have a publication with hundreds of topic objects. Thanks.

Joakim Nybäck · Accepted Answer

Hi Ari, 
 Perhaps the following would work: 
 
1. Select you publication version in the web UI, click Reports. 
2. Click Show Report. 
3. Click Export Publication. 
4. Retrieve the Zip archive with the files from FTP server (or whatever setup you have). 
5. Extract the files and edit them as you like locally. 
6. Import the files back with SDL Content Importer. 
 
...ideally between 5 and 6, run a diff of the before / after directories of the files to verify you got the result you expected. 
 
Assumptions: no one else is working on this content meanwhile, everything is in Source Draft state. 
 
Other notes: 
* You should be able to import the files with SDL Content Importer with your normal account (i.e. not admin) as everything is in draft state. 
* You'll have to generate a filemap.xml file for SDL Content Importer to use. 
 
HTH 
Joakim

Dave De Meyer · Answer

Publication Manager in itself only allows editing DITA Maps, which can be checked out in one view: the TOC of your publication. 
When refering to DITA Topics, we rely on Xml Editors which offer one window-per-file setup. Notions like *Resolved Document Editing* are not supported (one reason is that integration points with the Xml Editors are missing for that).

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