Providing enhanced functionality in an interactive electronic technical manual

An apparatus for displaying textual information for a topic found in technical documentation for an item via an interactive electronic technical manual system (IETM) configured to provide electronic and credentialed access to the technical documentation for the item via an IETM viewer, the apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to:

• receive input of a selection of the topic to view the textual information for the topic made by a user signed into the IETM, wherein the selection of the topic is performed by the user via the IETM viewer executing on a user computing entity;
• and
• responsive to receiving the input of the selection of the topic:
• identify a security classification attribute for the textual information from metadata associated with the textual information;
• identify a display format for the textual information based at least in part on the security classification attribute;
• determine an availability to view the textual information for the topic based at least in part on the security classification attribute and a security level of the user;
• and
• provide a window for display via the IETM viewer, wherein the textual information for the topic is presented on the window using the first display format and the textual information is available or is not available to view by the user on the window based at least in part on the availability to view determined for the textual information.

A non-transitory computer storage medium comprising instructions for displaying textual information for a topic found in technical documentation for an item via an interactive electronic technical manual system (IETM) configured to provide electronic and credentialed access to the technical documentation for the item via an IETM viewer, the instructions being configured to cause one or more processors to at least perform operations configured to:

• receive input of a selection of the topic to view the textual information for the topic made by a user signed into the IETM, wherein the selection of the topic is performed by the user via the IETM viewer executing on a user computing entity;
• and
• responsive to receiving the input of the selection of the topic:
• identify a security classification attribute for the textual information from metadata associated with the textual information;
• identify a display format for the textual information based at least in part on the security classification attribute;
• determine an availability to view the textual information for the topic based at least in part on the security classification attribute and a security level of the user;
• and
• provide a window for display via the IETM viewer, wherein the textual information for the topic is presented on the window using the first display format and the textual information is available or is not available to view by the user on the window based at least in part on the availability to view determined for the textual information.