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Description

RoboHelp is the industry standard for Help authoring. It's the preferred program if you are a Help author, technical writer, or programmer tasked with creating Help systems for desktop or Web-based applications.

 

This 3-day instructor-led training course covers the strategies and development process of designing a Help system. You will be introduced to the RoboHelp Office environment and create actual HTML-based Help projects, including creating context-sensitive WebHelp. You will also explore the single-sourcing capability of RoboHelp by generating cross-platform WebHelp, HTML Help and creating printed documentation.

Adobe RoboHelp Level 1 Course Outline

Unit 1 - Introduction

Module 1 - Course Overview

• Welcome!
• Course Goal
• Course Outline
• Assumptions
• How To Use This Training Manual
• How To Use The Training CD
• What You Have Learned

Module 2 - Technology Overview

• Defining a Help System
• Describing the Benefits of a Help System
• Defining the Different Help Systems
• Describing the Different Output Types
• Describing the Basic Characteristics of All Output Types
• Defining HTML
• Defining HTML-Based Help
• Defining Microsoft HTML Help
• Defining Browser-Based Help
• Defining XML
• What You Have Learned

Module 3 - Planning a Help System

• About the Structure of a Help System
• Communicating the Message
• Planning Your Help System
• Using the Systematic Approach
• Analyzing Your Audience, Resource, and Constraints
• Designing a Help System Prototype
• Developing Your Help System
• Implementing Your Help System
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Your Help System
• What You Have Learned

Unit 2 - Application HTML Help Project

Module 4 - Starting a New Project

• Project Planning
• Project Background
• Creating a New HTML Help Project
• Understanding the Help Authoring Environment
• Working with the Tag List
• Setting RoboHelp WYSIWYG as the Default Editor
• Working with the WYSIWYG Editor
• Creating a New Topic from the Toolbar
• Checking Your Settings
• Adding More Topics
• What You Have Learned

Module 5 - Working with Files and Folders

• Project Scenario
• Working with Folders
• Opening and Closing Folders
• Selecting Your Viewing Options
• Importing HTML Files
• Importing Microsoft Word Documents
• Importing a Word Document
• Importing FrameMaker Files
• Creating Headers and Footers
• About Topic Templates
• Creating Topic Templates
• Creating a Header/Footer for Topic Template
• Applying Topic Templates
• Creating a New Folder
• Moving Files In and Out of Folders
• Deleting Files
• Importing More Topics
• Organizing the Project Manager 3
• Updating the Topics 3
• What You Have Learned 3

Module 6 - Working with Styles

• Creating Style Sheets
• Best Practice for Using Styles
• Creating a New External Style Sheet
• Defining Styles
• Creating a New Style
• Attaching a Style Sheet to Several Topics
• Using Embedded Styles
• Using Inline Styles
• Adding Numbered and Bulleted Lists
• Formatting with Inline Styles
• Spell Checking Your Topic
• Practice
• Previewing Topics
• Advanced Practices
• What You Have Learned

Module 7 - Creating Basic Links

• Linking Topics
• Project Update
• Dragging and Dropping to Insert Links
• Viewing Hyperlinks
• Testing Hyperlinks
• Dragging and Dropping More Topics
• Advanced Practices
• What You Have Learned

Module 8 - Adding a Table of Contents

• Creating a Table of Contents
• Adding Books to the TOC
• Adding Pages to the TOC
• Dragging and Dropping Pages into the TOC
• Rearranging Books and Pages
• Automatically Creating TOCs
• Using Right-Click Menu to Update TOC
• Dragging and Dropping a TOC Page into WYSIWYG Editor
• Describing the Merged Help System Feature
• Advanced Practices
• What You Have Learned

Module 9 - Generating an HTML Help Layout

• Project Update
• Defining Primary Layouts and Single Source Layouts
• Generating Microsoft HTML Help Layouts
• Customizing the TOC
• Viewing Your HTML Help Primary Layout
• Using the Output View Pane
• Resolving Broken Links
• Generating Your Revised Layout
• Practice
• What You Have Learned

Module 10 - Adding Media

• Adding Images to Topics
• Dragging and Dropping Images
• Adding Horizontal Lines
• Using the ReSize Tool
• Inserting a Resized Image
• Practice
• What You Have Learned

Module 11 - Creating an Index

• Indexing Guidelines
• Strategies for Indexing
• Adding Index Keywords Using the Index Designer
• Adding Index Keywords Using the Right-Click Menu
• Automatically Creating Indexes
• Building a Custom Phrase List
• Building an “Always Ignore” List
• Confirming Keywords for Each Topic
• Automatically Adding Keywords
• Viewing the Index
• Options while Smart Indexing
• Creating Multi-Level Index Entries
• Manually Sort the Index
• Arranging Keywords with Toolbar Buttons
• What You Have Learned

Module 12 - Project Review and Distribution

• Generating Your HTML Help Primary Layout
• Preparing for Reports
• Viewing and Printing Reports
• Backing Up Your Project
• Distributing Online Help
• Distributing Microsoft HTML Help
• What You Have Learned

Module 13 - Generating Printed Documentation

• About Single-Source Technology
• Planning for Printed Documentation
• Opening an Existing Project
• Creating Printed Documents
• Creating a Duplicate Layout
• Generating a PDF Document
• Generating Multiple Layouts
• What You Have Learned
• Project Completion

Unit 3 - WebHelp Project

Module 14 - Updating a WebHelp Project

• About Your HTML and WebHelp Projects
• Project Background
• Opening an Existing WebHelp Project
• Confirming Primary Layout is WebHelp
• Creating Folders
• Creating a New Topic
• Importing HTML Files
• Importing Word Documents
• Importing FrameMaker Files
• Assigning a Default Topic
• Generating Your WebHelp Layout
• What You Have Learned

Module 15 - Customizing Your WebHelp Project

• Creating a Font Set
• Creating a New Style Sheet
• Applying the Style Sheet to All Topics
• Updating a Style Sheet
• On-the-Fly Style Creation
• Advanced Practices
• What You Have Learned

Module 16 - Adding Navigation

• Project Update
• Creating a TOC
• Creating an Index
• Creating a WebHelp Glossary
• What Makes a Successful Glossary?
• Strategies for Creating Online Glossaries
• Navigating the Glossary Designer
• About the Glossary Designer and Glossary Hotspot Wizard
• Adding and Defining Glossary Terms
• Adding Expanding Glossary Hotspots Using the Glossary Hotspot Wizard
• Viewing Expanding Glossary Hotspots
• Automatically Removing Expanding Glossary Terms from Topics
• Manually Removing Expanding Glossary Text from Topics
• Generating Your WebHelp Layout
• Practice and Advanced Practices
• Spell Checking the TOC
• Viewing Reports
• What You Have Learned

Module 17 - Adding Bookmarks and an Image Map Hotspot

• Creating Bookmarks
• Creating a Back-to-Top Bookmark
• Creating a Frameset
• Creating Bookmarks for Frameset
• Linking a Custom Frameset
• Viewing a Custom Frameset
• Creating an Image Map Hotspot
• What You Have Learned 3

Module 18 - Finishing Touches

• Project Update
• Inserting a Table into a Topic
• Working with Tables
• Working with Bullets and Lists
• Creating Links to Your Topics
• Creating Skins
• Generating WebHelp with Skins
• Practice
• Generating FlashHelp with Skins
• Advanced Practices
• What You Have Learned

Module 19 - Using Conditional Build Tags

• About Conditional Build Tags
• Planning for Conditional Build Tags
• Creating New Conditional Build Tags
• Applying Conditional Build Tags to Topic Content
• Previewing Conditional Text
• Applying Conditional Build Tags to Topic Level
• Verifing Conditional Build Tag Properties
• Defining Conditional Build Tag Expressions
• Combining Build Tags with Layouts
• Setting Your Primary Layout
• Practice
• What You Have Learned

Module 20 - Distributing Cross-Platform Help Projects

• Spell Checking Your Entire Project
• Defining WebHelp
• Defining WebHelp’s Accessibility
• Generating Section 508 Compliant WebHelp
• Publishing a WebHelp Layout
• Republishing a WebHelp Layout
• Distributing WebHelp
• What You Have Learned

Module 21 - Creating Context-Sensitive WebHelp

• Creating Cross-Platform Context-Sensitive Help
• Using Context-Sensitive Help Guidelines
• Introducing the Electronic Timecard.htm
• Creating Context-Sensitive WebHelp
• Creating a Map File
• Creating Map IDs
• Creating a Custom Window
• Copying Your WebHelp Project
• Viewing the Source Code
• Calling a WebHelp System from an HTML Page
• Calling a Single Context-Sensitive Topic from an HTML Page
• Using the Context-Sensitive Help Test Tool
• What You Have Learned

Module 22 - Working With RoboHelp Office Pro

• Using RoboHelp Office Pro
• Understanding the Process
• Defining RoboEngine
• Defining the RoboEngine Configuration Manager
• Overview of Tasks
• Setting the Primary Layout to WebHelp Pro
• Connecting Your Project to the Engine
• Publishing a Project to the Engine
• Merging Projects
• Accessing Reports
• Viewing Reports
• Accessing the Merged Projects
• Testing the Natural Language Search
• Entering More Questions for Natural Language Search
• Working with Synonyms
• Republishing a Project to the Engine
• Changing the Configuration Manager
• Testing the Natural Language Synonym Editor 3
• What You Have Learned 3
• Project Completion 3

Unit 4 - Standalone HTML Help Project

Module 23 - Updating an Online Information Project

• Project Background
• Opening an Existing HTML Help Project
• Changing Window Properties
• Changing the Window Caption
• Adding a New Topic
• Adding a Jump Button
• Creating Folders
• Importing Files
• Accessing the TOC
• Creating Books With No Links
• Dragging Topics to Create Pages
• Adding Related Topics Link Controls
• See Also Overview
• Implementing See Also Feature
• See Also versus Related Topics
• Adding See Also Keywords in the Index Designer
• Associating Topics With the See Also Keywords
• Adding See Also Controls to Topics
• Viewing Your Project
• Duplicating See Also Controls 3
• Viewing Your Updated Project 3
• Practice 3
• Advanced Practices 3
• What You Have Learned 3

Module 24 - Adding Effects

• Project Update
• Adding Dynamic HTML to an Image
• Practice
• Adding Dynamic HTML to Text
• Practice
• Adding Popups
• Adding Text-Only Popups to Topics
• Practice
• Adding Popup Links to Topics
• Resizing Popup Links to Topics
• Creating a Drop-Down Hotspot
• Creating Image Maps
• Using Advanced DHTML Features
• Adding a Positioned Text Box
• Using Triggers and Targets to Create DHTML
• Adding Sounds to Topics
• Advanced Practices 3
• What You Have Learned 3

Module 25 - Creating Browse Sequences

• Defining Browse Sequences
• Planning for Browse Sequences
• Updating Window Properties
• Automatically Creating Browse Sequences
• Manually Creating Browse Sequences
• What You Have Learned

Module 26 - Working With Version Control

• Project Background
• Describing the Benefits of Version Control
• How Version Control Works
• How Version Control Works in RoboHelp
• Describing Strategies for Multi-Author Projects
• Using the Version Control Toolbar
• Adding a Project to Version Control
• Editing a Checked Out File
• Checking In an Edited File
• Showing the History of Files
• Showing the Differences Between Files
• Rolling Back to a Previous Version of a File
• What You Have Learned
• Project Completion
• Class Completion

 

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