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RickNoll
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February 17, 2012
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Where can I find various high level examples of workflows being used

  • February 17, 2012
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I am about to start a project with TCS 3.5 and have been participating in the Adobe webinars to help learn components and specific techniques but what I am lacking is an understanding of various workflows I can model my project after or take bits from various sources. Why start with Framemaker in this workflow versus RoboHelp or even Word? Questions like this I think come from experience with the process and I am thinking that what I am getting myself into is a chessgame with all these pieces and don't want to paint myself into a corner by traveling down one route. I have seen this graphic:

And this one:

And this one:

But they are too generic and do not contain enough information to really understand the descision making process one must go through on various projects.

Can we have a series of webinars made, all with the underlining theme of defining a working process or workflow, by having guests describe how they have or are using this suite in real life on their own projects? One that might include a graphic showing the routes taken through the suite with reasons why?

My project hopes to make a single source internal site that will tie together various 3D portable industrial coordinate metrology systems (hardware and software). It would be used as a dispersal site for help, communications between users and SME, OEM information, QA requirements, established processes, scripting snipet downloads, statistics, and training (including SOJT). Portable industrial metrology has 8 different softwares that are used and right now about 8 different instruments. These include laser trackers and radars, articulated arms, scanners, structered white and blue light to name a few. The softwares include Spatial Analyzer, Veriserf, CompIT, eMscon, AXYZ to a few there as well. I want to be able to participate and add content to an internal Sharpoint site, push content to users for stand-alone workstations, ePub, capture knowledge leaving the company through attrition, develop easy graphic rich job aid sheets, and aid in evaluations of emergent software and hardware. I would also like to leave the option open to use the finished product as a rosetta stone like translator between the software packages; doing this is the equivelent of doing this in these other software pacages for example.

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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Community Expert
February 17, 2012

The basic idea is to author in FM and publish your content through RH and PDF (from FM); there's nothing to stop you from authoring in RH except that it's not designed to produce print (PDF) very easily. If that's not a requirement, then you can use RH directly as your HAT.

Peter Grainge
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Community Expert
February 17, 2012

Rick

It will be worth your while talking to Matt but your request for webinars needs to be made to Adobe, this is a user to user forum and they do not officially monitor. I will make sure this thread does get to Adobe though.


See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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RickNoll
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February 17, 2012

Thanks Peter. Sorry about placing this topic in here. Didn't even occur to me that it wasn't the appropriate location.

Matt-Tech Comm Tools
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Community Expert
February 17, 2012

Rick, what a well-articulated post!

Given your specific requireements, I believe TCS may be about the only solution that will accomodate your needs (I don't know of another eLearning solution that will support articulating (working) 3d models)

However, given your specificity, I  doubt you'll ever find that webinar series you're looking for; your requirements are quite unique.

I'd be happy to discuss your needs here or offline to explain the pro's and con's of this or other workflows you might consider.

To get answers to a few of your questions, try googling (quotes included) "mattrsullivan"

Much of you're looking to do is what I write and train on, and will be included in the results.

FYI, much of the TCS management and dev team will be in Palm Springs next week for the Intelligent Content conference.  Adobe is  the main sponsor for the event.

-Matt Sullivan

@mattrsullivan

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
RickNoll
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February 17, 2012

Thanks, I am checking out your site today.