Meeting: Bluestream XDocs DITA CMS with Oxygen and FrameMaker

Nenad Furtula, of Bluestream, and Scott Prentice, of Leximation, presented a multi-tool demonstration of the XDocs authoring and publishing features.

Nenad demoed (remotely from Vancouver, Canada) the latest features of the XDocs CMS. In particular he showed the Author/SME review workflow using Oxygen Author and XDocs Explorer with the XDocs SME Review Module. He also demonstrated various options for publishing through the XDocs Explorer.

As an example of a collaborative workflow, Scott (presenting locally) checked out the same files from the XDocs CMS and made edits using FrameMaker and DITA-FMx. He then demonstrated automated publishing using FMx-Auto and FrameMaker to create a PDF from DITA files pulled from the XDocs CMS.

After the presentation, we had lengthy discussions of options for authoring and publishing DITA content .. a really fun meeting!

Meeting: A day in the life of a technical content creator

Topic: A day in the life of a technical content creator – Showcasing the steps a technical documentation department would undertake to leverage our “best in class” DITA CCM solution. Demo will cover content creation, review, editing, translation and multi-channel publishing.

Speaker: Henry Calhoun of XyEnterprise.

Notes: Notes, commentary, and picscourtesy of DJ Cline

Meeting: Enhancing the management of your DITA content with a Content Management System

Topic: Enhancing the management of your DITA content with a Content Management System.

Speaker: Fred Lass, a Senior Solutions Architect at Astoria Software.

Presentation materials: SVDITA_Users_Nov-8-2006.ppt [1165KB].