Top 5 Arbortext Resources

Here’s the list of the top 5 resources new Arbortext customers should know about. If you’re an Arbortext User, you should know about these resources: Arbortext 101: Best Practices for Configuring, Authoring, Styling, and Publishing with Arbortext: This book gives you everything…

• Key Concepts: basics, training and mentoring
• Filed under: Common Questions, Products, Resources
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Is Arbortext DITA Pure DITA? YES!

Is Arbortext pure DITA?  Yes. Arbortext is pure DITA, pure XML. We are always surprised when we get this question because: Arbortext was the software IBM was using when they developed DITA. What does it mean to be “pure DITA”? DITA…

• Key Concepts: basics, training and mentoring
• Filed under: Common Questions, Products, Resources
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Adepters – What is it and how do I find it?

Are you an Arbortext user? Have you heard the word Adepters and wonder what it means? Adepters is the name of the original Arbortext user mailing list which was launched in 1996. At that time there the web was still new, so…

• Key Concepts: basics, community
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
• Venues: PTC Arbortext User

How to find the best content management system (or any other tool)

b Post Summary In this article, I hope I can convince you to gather requirements before you buy. It’s the only way to guarantee that you find the best content management system for you. Not for someone else. FOR YOU….

• Key Concepts: basics, training and mentoring
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How to Document your Stylesheets

by Karie You’re working on a big project or a book using DITA, but your boss asks you to change the style of the font at the last minute. This was something you had set months prior and you don’t…

• Key Concepts: arbortext styler, best practices, stylesheets
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

How do authors find content for reuse?

Your customers can find content, but can your content creation team? DITA content explodes. How do you manage it? A lot of customers have been asking us recently about how they’re going to manage content that explodes into lots and…

• Key Concepts: basics, training and mentoring
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Common Questions: Workflow

This week’s topic: Workflow Here are some highlights of Workflow features supported in Windchill: Arbortext Content Manager supports standard workflows as well as sophisticated capabilities for routing change information to the correct process participants. Arbortext Content Manager provides tools to…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), automating content creation, basics, content management, workflow and process
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
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Common Questions: Automation in Arbortext

This week’s topic: Out of the box automation in Arbortext We’re purposefully scoping this subject down for this post. We’re answering questions about what automation features come OOTB in Arbortext. If we didn’t limit this discussion, we could easily write…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), basics
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