Preserve Changes in RoboHelp for a Linked FrameMaker Book
Adobe Technical Communication Suite enables a single sourcing workflow from FrameMaker to RoboHelp for HTML publishing. While it is ideal to maintain all the content in FrameMaker, there are special situations which may require the RoboHelp content to be out of sync from FrameMaker documents either for short duration or for small set of topics. These special situations can relate to project deadlines or project requirements which make the process of maintaining a single source difficult.
Adobe RoboHelp 7, as part of Adobe Technical Communication Suite, provides a new and really powerful functionality of managing this Out of Synchronization behavior. First, it provides a visual indicator the moment there is a change in RoboHelp content for a Linked FrameMaker document. Second, it allows you to select a set of topics which you want to preserve when the content is updated again. Since you can manage this at HTML topic level, you can control this at a granular level. Lastly, you can also delete topics and not regenerate these topics during the next update.
Here is a Captivate demo of this feature (Update - I am adding a "Click to Start" button on the demos - Thanks Rick for your suggestion). Do share your comments and suggestions with me.
Comments
Hi there
You should probably consider inserting a Click Box or Button object at the beginning of your Captivate demonstrations to keep them in place until the user is ready. For one thing, it would allow some "friendliness" in that they will wait for the user to advise they are ready to begin viewing. For another, it becomes awfully distracting when you have multiple Captivate videos playing on the page at the same time. You are hearing click click click and it gets confusing and makes one wonder if parts are being missed.
Cheers... Rick :)
Thanks Rick for the suggestion. As you can notice, we are increasingly using Captivate demos on our blog. I agree, we need to have a "Start" button before the demo begins. - Vivek
Posted by: Rick Stone | December 10, 2007 1:26 AM