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Key Concept Archive

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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…

Conference notes from: DITA Best Practices BOF lunch at CMS DITA NA 2015

Tracy Baker and I had a full table and intense discussion on the topics on the minds of the people in attendance. Real time issues and ideas for possible solutions. Topics ranged from reuse strategies to getting started to review processes to getting…

Herding Tigers – How Salesforce Let Go of Inline Links

Did you know that every manually-coded inline link comes at a cost? Did you know that customers don't use them nearly as often as technical writers do? Join us to learn how we let go of manual links as a…

Fit the most information in the least amount of space

Writing instructions for products you can hold in your hand isn't the same as writing for the software industry. In many cases, you're creating paper documents to fit in small boxes, so page layouts matter. This session addresses the unique…

Advanced Modules – Managing DocBook and DITA

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 3: Arbortext TC Dojo, Episode 7 Video Recorded: May 2014 Do you have content in both DocBook and DITA? Are you worried that it has to be one or the other? Two doctypes means two stylesheets,…

To DITA or Not To DITA: How to Choose?

To DITA or Not To DITA? That is the question. DITA isn't the right answer for every situation. DocBook may be older, but there are reasons to use it. In this session we'll discuss the differences between the two doctypes…

You Don’t Have to Build Software to Do DITA

This is a success story. Medtronic ENT deployed a brand-new DITA solution, employing all the traditional strategies and best practices for DITA such as specializing only where absolutely necessary and adopting minimalist approach to topic-based authoring. As a global organization,…