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March 11, 2015
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I am looking for a CMS for FM structured 11, is there any recommendation? Does Adobe Creative Cloud work as one CMS platform?

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My requirement is quite basic and common. I am looing for a CMS to manage the books, fm files, dita files, pictures and glossaries and the publication, is there any recommendation? The cheaper the better.

BTW, I received the advertisement from Adobe for its Creative Cloud, can this work as a CMS? Anyone using it?

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March 25, 2015

My team need a CMS to end our off-line development. Could you kindly give me some advice on that, including technical approach and cost? Thank you.

We are a user manual developing team in China mainland, using FM 11 structured mode. We had had an CMS platform called XDOC, but because of a company acquisition, we no longer has it. So we extracted the customized structured fm files offline to continue our local development. But now team getting bigger, so I wander if there is any better choice. (I am not sure if XDOC is the best choice. It might be too big too expensive for us.)

Here is our requirement:

1. Mutual share of our working files, checkout and checkin management (or directly online development);

2. Abbreviation and glossery management. We need to manage a glossery bank in the platform and when we type the term in the fm file, the glossery will automatically pop-up for choice, or sth. like this;

3. Format integration. If the platform can integrate and solidate our format online so that we no longer need to arrange the format offline it would be a plus.

4. Publication management. If the platform can publish our output (e.g., PDF) online, it would be a plus.

That's all, thank you in advance!!!!!

ScottPrentice
Inspiring
March 25, 2015

I'm not aware of a CMS called XDOC .. I do know of XDocs though, is that what you're referring to? If so, it's only an XML CMS, it doesn't really support structured FM files. XDocs is one of the most affordable XML CMSes available .. if you're using XML in FM, I'd definitely suggest taking a look, but if you're using structured FM files (binary files), then that isn't going to help.

No, Adobe Creative Cloud is not a CMS. The CMS offered by Adobe is called AEM. It could possibly do what you're asking for, but would require some custom development and is very expensive.

I'm not familiar with many non-XML CMSes .. perhaps someone else will have suggestions.

Good luck!

...scott

Known Participant
March 25, 2015

Thank you. You can also give me some advice on XML CMSes.

As I know, I can also develop XML files using FrameMaker, is that right? Is there any difficulty to switch to XML development? Do I need to customize the format?