Training

Suite Solutions offers a variety of courses and workshops. Feel free to email or call if you have any questions regarding training, or if you wish to discuss a custom training class. We can mix and match training modules to train your team on the topics you need, when you need them.

DITA Quick Start Workshop for Authors

The DITA Quick Start Workshop for Authors is designed to get you up and running authoring, managing and publishing your content using DITA. The workshop is intensive, pragmatic and includes plenty of hands-on exercises. After completing the workshop, you will:

• Be well grounded in the foundations of using DITA for documentation and training content
• Have hands-on experience authoring DITA content and assembling topics into deliverables
• Understand the basics of information architecture and be able to design your own content model, plan for reuse and achieve multi-purpose documents
• Be able to publish your content into PDF and HTML-based formats using the DITA Open Toolkit

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DITA Open Toolkit Training On-Demand Recorded Webinars and Tutorials

Take advantage of Suite Solutions DITA training webinar series and succeed in generating your own publications using the DITA Open Toolkit. The webinars start at a beginner level and proceed to advanced topics, so you can choose the sessions that best match your needs.

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Nuts and Bolts of the DITA Open Toolkit Workshop

Given by an experienced consultant who's slogged through the trenches on real projects, this workshop is intensive, technical, and useful with plenty of hands-on exercises.

Day 1: DITA Open Toolkit: Under the Hood (DITA-OT)
Day 2: Understanding and Configuring the FO Plug-In for Generating PDF
Day 3: Understanding and Configuring DITA-OT for Publishing HTML formats

To sign-up for a workshop, please register here.
To request a workshop in your area, please contact us.

Introduction to Information Architecture

Designing, building and maintaining a coherent information architecture is critical to proper planning, creation, management and delivery of documentation and training content. This is especially true when your content is based on a modular or topic-based model such as DITA. This workshop introduces the role of the information architect and discusses core concepts such as content models, role of specializations, enforcing tagging policy, strategies for reuse and linking, subject classification and more.

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Understanding and Using FrameMaker with DITA

Syllabus:

• Installing and setting up the DITA-FMx Plug-in
• Overview of the DITA components and their function: configuration files, template, EDD, struct files, input/output rules, etc.
• Authoring topics using FrameMaker
• Creating and maintaining maps
• Configuring and publishing via the DITA Open Toolkit
• Methods for conditional publishing
• Adding DITA specializations
• Differences between DITA-FMx and FM 8 DITA support

This workshop can be fine-tuned to your specific needs and starting level of the attendees. As an option, additional training may be provided focusing on publishing context-sensitive help and other publishing and integration topics.

To sign-up for a workshop, please register here.