Overview of the Commonality Analysis step

You are viewing the overview page of the Commonality analysis step which is part of the Convert to DITA process. In this step you can compare documents with a migration template document1. The Commonality Analysis grid shows how close a document matches by comparing style usage. You can find the following information:

  • New Styles - reports for a document how many styles were found that are not in the template document.
  • Unused Styles - reports for a document how many unused styles were found in the template document
  • Style Overrides - reports for a document how many unused of the template document have been used in an overridden form

Grouping is done by assigning document to a migration template document. The benefit of doing this is that you only have to specify the mapping once. Any document that is grouped to a migration template document will automatically inherit all the mappings. This not only saves time but will result in consistent conversion results (documents are treated in a similar way).


Notes

1 A migration template document is not the same thing as an authoring template but a regular document with each style instantiated at least once, for example:

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