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November 17, 2014
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FrameMaker SME collaboration

  • November 17, 2014
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Hello all,

I am seeking advice on documentation SME collaboration workflow.

The fly in the ointment for me is that I need to cover the following complications:

- My subject matter experts need the ability to add full text (rather than just comments and annotations) to my draft work

- They will not have access to FM, nor should they. They only need to edit text, add a paragraph or two, and perhaps even insert images (although not an absolute requirement)

- The SMEs are primarily working on Linux systems, so the solution needs to be OS agnostic

- Ideally, round-trip collaboration... meaning edits can be imported back into FM.

- Ideally, real-time collaboration... meaning that all collaborators can see each other's edits.

Is there any way to accomplish these goals with FM?

If not, wow!

Then what are my options... without loosing FM's powerful documentation building capabilities?

BTW, this video seems to imply that full text editing is allowed via PDF review, also round-tripping... but what about OS agnostic? Will the Linux PDF viewer allow the same editing? And what about real-time or near real-time collaboration?

FrameMaker 12: Enhanced PDF Review Cycle | FrameMaker 12 Features | Adobe TV

Thanks a lot,

Doug

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 17, 2014

Structured or unstructured? Maybe you can use that mini-XML tool that FM12 has with it?

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kind_days15B9Author
Inspiring
November 17, 2014

Thanks for your reply Jeff.

Structured will make collaboration far easier for the SMEs. But editing view doesn't need to be perfect... it just needs to provide a usable collaboration platform with a close enough approximation to the final published product. Given that, PDF editing is ideal.

Equally important, for my own sanity, "sending" the content to a review/collaboration platform needs to be automated. With the number of simultaneous documents my team works on, we can't be spending a lot of time, updating the collaboration documents.

This cannot be a difficult goal to achieve.

Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 17, 2014

FM isn’t really built for heavy collaboration – and with your Linux SMEs, they would probably have to run some Win emulator to use FM or the FM XML editor tool. Maybe you need to think about a wiki model?

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