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Fancy Formatting of XML Tables in PDF Output

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 3: Arbortext TC Dojo, Episode 12 Recorded: June 2014 In this session, we’re going to talk about tables. Want to change the table from a simple block of tabulated data into something pretty and easy to…

Key Referencing – The Key to Reuse

Topic based content enables organizations to piece content together to fit different customer needs. But often times this content can't be shared and reused to its full potential because it contains product names, specific values, screenshots, links, or other content…

Using DITA keyrefs and conkeyrefs in Arbortext

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 3: Arbortext TC Dojo, Episode 11 Recorded: May 2015 In this webinar, we tackle the DITA feature keyrefs and conkeyrefs. The keyref and conkeyref mechanisms allow you to easily switch variable content. We show: how keys…

Best Practices for Arbortext Workspaces in Windchill

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 3: Arbortext TC Dojo, Episode 10 Recorded: July, 2014 Using workspaces in Arbortext Content Manager (or Windchill) can be a bit confusing. How do you keep it clean? When should you create one? How long should…

Information Architecture Bottom-Up

The advent of electronic media and particularly the Web has profoundly changed how people seek and use information. Information seeking today is dominated by search, and not by search of individual works, but search of the whole: whole sites, whole…

Bringing Reusability to Your XML Stylesheets: Property Sets

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 3: Arbortext TC Dojo, Episode 9 Recorded: November 2014 We go to XML publishing for a lot of reasons. One of which is to achieve reusability of our information: Write it Once, Use it Anywhere. Often,…

Ageism in Technical Communications

Hiring managers and older candidates often experience frustration that is related to ageism and generational differences. Andrew Davis, a recruiter of technology industry content developers (Technical Writers, Trainers, and those with related skills), sees these issues first-hand and helps his…

Unhappy Customers are Just the Beginning: Potential Costs of Skimping on Documentation

A perennial question in the technical communication community is how to justify our work in financial terms that management will understand. One partial answer is to consider potential consequences of putting insufficient resources into technical documentation. What happens if the…