Manage content

Before you start with the actual content creation, you must familiarize yourself with some basic concepts of content management in Adobe Experience Manager Guides. Then, start with creating different user groups and organizing your assets.

Key concepts

Some key concepts of content management in Adobe Experience Manager are as follows:

Asset management

Experience Manager Guides uses Adobe Experience Manager’s digital asset management (DAM) to manage your DITA files. The files that you upload or check into the DAM are stored as digital assets. You can manage and edit your assets in Adobe Experience Manager Assets. For more information about asset management, view Manage assets.

Link management

Move or rename files or change folder structure in the content repository, without worrying about broken references. All references to and from the impacted content are automatically updated. Get warnings when deleting content which is referenced from elsewhere, to prevent unintentional breakages.

Managing versions

Experience Manager Guides provides version management for your digital assets. You can easily enable this functionality from a DITA authoring application of choice. Allowing your writers to perform the standard version control functions such as check-in and check-out.

For more information about creating versions or reverting to a specific version, view Branch, revert, and subsequent versioning.

Native DITA handling

While Experience Manager Guides maintains the structure of your DITA files, it also enables Adobe Experience Manager to natively handle DITA using element mapping to map the DITA elements to Adobe Experience Manager components. The native DITA handling is used in features such as topic preview, Adobe Experience Manager Sites publishing, and the review workflows.