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 Open Toolkit Training On Demand Webinars
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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
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.
See full outline below
Webinar Schedule
The DITA Open Toolkit Workshop is also offered as a series of webinars. Each webinar runs 3 hours with a short break in the middle.
You may pick any number or combination of webinars.
1. Nuts and Bolts of the DITA Open Toolkit
2. Understanding and Configuring the FO Plug-In for Generating PDF
- Part 1: Introductory Level - Under the Hood
- Part 2: Advanced Level - Making it Work for You
3. Understanding and Configuring DITA-OT for Publishing HTML formats
DITA Training and Workshops for Authors
Suite Solutions provides training courses that provide critical value to those using or considering using DITA.
See full outline below
Course Descriptions
Nuts and Bolts of the DITA Open Toolkit Workshop
Day 1: Nuts and Bolts of the DITA Open Toolkit
- DITA-OT Components
- Installing the DITA-OT
- Running the DITA-OT
- Rendering outputs using different transtypes
- Filtering output using DITAVAL
- Using the DITA-OT with Antenna House and RenderX
- Common Errors and Mistakes
- Where to Go for Support: Online Resources
- Getting Started with XSL, XSL-FO and XPath
Day 2: Understanding and Configuring the FO Plug-In for Generating PDF
- Review of PDF Generation
- Introduction to the FO Plug-in
- Customizing the FO Plug-in
- Customization Case Studies
- Customizing for Localization
- Configuration Issues
- Debugging Tips
Day 3: Understanding and Configuring DITA-OT for Publishing HTML formats
- Overview of HTML Formats: Web, HTML Help, JavaHelp, Eclipse Help
- Review of DITA-OT Components
- Overview of Transtypes and Files Generated for Each Format
- Customizing HTML Output
- Getting Started with CSS
- Case Studies and Samples
- Overview: Publishing via FrameMaker DITA-FMx, WebWorks, Robohelp
DITA Training and Workshops for Authors
Day 1: DITA Overview
- Overview of DITA
- Business Advantages
- Topics: The Basic Information Types
- Maps: Assembling Topics into Deliverables
- Examples and Exercises
Day 2: Moving Ahead with DITA
- Linking Methods
- Using DITA for Training Content
- Reusing Content
- Information Architecture
- Revising Processes
- Examples and Exercises
Day 3: Filtering and Publishing
- DITA Tool Chain
- Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit
- Rendering outputs using different transtypes
- Filtering output using DITAVAL
- Common Errors and Mistakes
- Examples and Exercises
Understanding and Implementing 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 and SCORM or if you are migrating to such a model.
But where to start? Terms such as "taxonomy," "semantics" and "ontology" can be intimidating, and recognized standards like RDF, OWL, Topic Maps (XTM) and SKOS seem so abstract. This pragmatic workshop will provide an overview of the standards and concepts, and a chance to use them "hands-on" to turn the abstract into tangible skills. We will demonstrate how a well-designed information architecture facilitates reuse and how the information model is integrally connected to conditional and multi-purpose publishing.
We will introduce an innovative, comprehensive methodology for information modeling and content development called SOTA - Solution Oriented Topic Architecture. SOTA does not aim to be yet another new standard, but rather a concrete methodology backed up with open-source and accessible tools for using existing standards. We will demonstrate - and practice hands-on - how this powerful methodology can help not only organize and express information but is used to determine which content actually needs to be created or updated, and build documentation and training deliverables from your content based on rules you define.
This workshop is essential for successfully implementing topic models like DITA and SCORM, multi-purpose conditional publishing, and successfully facilitating content reuse.
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.
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