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: content management, content strategy, metadata madness, taxonomy and classification, workflow and process, xml authoring
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions, Liz Asks
• Venues: Lavacon, STC, TC Dojo

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
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
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Common Questions: Source Control

This week’s topic: Source Control Source Control is a big topic. To date, the best article I've ever read on branching strategy was a best practices article by Perforce (circa 2003). Today, we're not talking about that, we're talking about…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), basics, content management
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
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Common Questions: Change Markup

This week’s topic: Change Tracking & Change Markup Change markup has historically been something that you had to implement yourself in XML publishing. Arbortext supports typical change markup behavior in the standard document types, and with a small amount of…

• Key Concepts: basics, usability and user experience, workflow and process, xml authoring
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
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Common Questions: Bursting

This week’s topic: Bursting We start talking about something we call “bursting” when we get questions like the following: Can a writer or translator work just on paragraph chunks while an editor can see entire sections? This question is nearly always…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), arbortext editor, configuration and implementation, content management, xml authoring
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
• Venues:

Common Questions: PTC Windchill Arbortext Content Manager

This week’s topic: Arbortext Content ManagerToday, we're answering some of the more common and general questions about Arbortext Content Manager (ACM).When it comes to DITA, the need for component content management comes sooner rather than later. It's very easy to…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), basics, content management, techcomm tools
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
• Venues: PTC Arbortext User

Common Questions: XML and Standards Support

This week’s topic: XML and Standards support in Arbortext With the most recent release of Arbortext there's a lot to talk about with respect to standards and XML technology support in Arbortext. Arbortext has been part of the W3C since…

• Key Concepts: basics, dita, techcomm tools, xml authoring
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
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