Adobe Guides (DITA Author)

Prerequisite: You must have a solid working familiarity with your operating system.

Objectives: Upon successful completion attendees will be able to:

• Understand AEM Guides interactions with DITA and its processing and publishing features

• Create valid DITA concept, task, and reference topics as stand–alone units of information

• Build DITA maps to organize and link topics to develop a navigation system (such as a TOC)

• Work with commonly–used DITA elements for all topic types

• Leverage features for simplifying structured authoring, including multiple document views, elements, tags, and attributes

• Understand the relationship between siblings, parents, children, ancestors and descendants

• Insert content using elements which are moved, deleted, merged or split as required

• Insert, modify and delete content in table heading, cells, headers and footers and merge cells

• Work with unordered (bulleted), ordered and definition lists

• Import and position graphics and media objects

• Work with cross–references including links to topics, and URI targets

• Set up conditional text, make content conditional, and publish conditional documents

• Know when and how to use the core methods of content reuse in DITA: topic reuse, conrefs, keys, and conditional text

• Publish maps to PDF or AEM sites with and without a ditaval

Further Learning: Topic based writing

Delivery: The following delivery is available:

• Instructor–led, group–paced, online–delivery learning model with structured hands–on activities and assignments

• Customized classroom training at your location

Fees: Course pricing is as follows:

• Instructor–led, online–delivery: $1995/participant (group rates available)

• Customized classroom training at your location: $3495/day for up to 8 participants plus travel expenses