Description
This workshop is aimed at those who are currently using Author-it and who wish to understand the more advanced features.
- Advanced Variables
- Configuring variables
- Using file object variables
- Nested variables
- Variants
- How variants work
- Configuring variants
- Use case: Variables for multi-disciplinary documentation; for example, same product, different regions/audiences (single level variants)
- Use case: Variables for multi-release documentation; for example, software documentation (hierarchical variants)
- Document/Output Design
- Understanding the Author-it publishing process
- Review of media objects and object templates that affect publishing
- Customising Word output:
- Creating new styles in Author-it
- Creating new styles in the Word template
- Modifying existing styles
- Updating headers/footers
- Creating a basic AfterPublish Macro.
- Customising HTML output:
- Understanding the difference between HTML output and Web Help output
- Creating new styles in HTML output
- Configuring the HTML output tri-pane window
- Creating new styles in Web Help output
- Configuration the Web Help tri-pane output
- Introduction to more advanced Web Help configuration.
Prerequisites
Solid Author-it knowledge from a user perspective, including:
- Understanding of all Author-it object types
- How to create books and topics (and associated objects)
- How objects relate to each other and work together
- Understanding of media objects (basic).
Intermediate/advanced Word skills, including:
- Understanding of Word templates
- How to create/modify styles
- Understanding of building blocks and AutoText entries.
Basic/intermediate HTML/CSS skills including:
- Basic/intermediate understanding of CSS
- Comfortable to read HTML and CSS source code and have a basic understanding
- Ability to write HTML/CSS an advantage.
Notes
- Participants must bring their own laptop.
- The workshop uses Author-it On Premises (licences will be organised for participants).
- Author-it v6.1 will be used. Participants must have this version of Author-it installed and working on their laptops before the workshop starts. There will be no time at the start of the workshop to install Author-it.
- Laptops must have Word 2007 or Word 2010 installed (not Office Starter).
- This workshop will be unstructured with limited training resources provided (for example, training guides). Participants will be walked through different scenarios and provided support to complete the exercises.