What is the DITA Resource Manager?

by Karie Arbortext Editor has direct, built-in access to Arbortext Content Manager (Windchill) through the Object Browser and the Resource Manager. The Resource Manager makes reusing content objects more efficient for DITA writers. The Resource Manager is a dockable window that…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), arbortext editor, basics, dita, reuse, techcomm tools, workflow and process, xml authoring
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Can I use Arbortext with the DITA OT?

We get a lot of questions about whether you can use Arbortext with the Open Toolkit. The answer is, “Yes, of course,” but any further details are difficult unless you know what the questioner means by that. “Arbortext” is a…

• Key Concepts: arbortext editor, configuration and implementation, dita, dita ot, techcomm tools, ui customization
• Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks
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Common Questions: BOMs

This week’s topic: BOMs As organizations start to see returns from XML implementations in technical publications, training, and support, they start to see how it can benefit even more departments across the organizations. One of the places that organizations look…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), basics, dita
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Common Questions: Arbortext Editor

This week’s topic: Arbortext Editor Something that a lot of people don't realize, but that Arbortext customers cherish, is that every part of the Arbortext Editor UIr—everything you can do in the Editor—is reachable through the extensive, well-documented, API. After the…

• Key Concepts: arbortext editor, basics, dita
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Is your business OK with OTK?

I love DIY projects! I find them truly irresistible. I relish each and every facet of them. From concept to completion, there is nothing I don’t enjoy. For me, there is nothing more rewarding than seeing something I created being…

• Key Concepts: best practices, dita, dita ot, techcomm tools
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What’s all the DITA buzz about?

You’re in a staff meeting and the documentation manager is giving a report of the advances his team has achieved using a new technology. He mentions that the team has gone through a lot of effort and pain to implement…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), arbortext editor, basics, dita, reuse, techcomm tools, workflow and process, xml authoring
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Podcast Posted: Interview with Bob Thomas, Tagsmiths

This month's interview on the PubWright podcast is Bob Thomas, from Tagsmiths. Bob started in SGML/XML in the mid-to-early 90s at Lucent. He transformed from a technical writer to data modeler, DTD writer, legacy data conversion specialist, and stylesheet developer….

• Key Concepts: community, dita, xpath xslt xsl-fo
• Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

DITA is Hard

There's a trope that says, if you want to do good content delivery, you have to advocate for methodology, not tools. (This is often said in despair by someone dealing with a team of writers determined to find a way…

• Key Concepts: best practices, dita, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
• Filed under: Blog
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive