RoboHelp X7 HTML.
This is a 3 day introductory training course to
RoboHelp.
Ideal for beginners or people with little experience
in RoboHelp.
We can also offer custom RoboHelp training
classes and consulting which can be tailored
and targeted specifically
to you and your staff anywhere in the New York area. These
courses can be held at either our New York training centers or on-site
at your location
anywhere in
the United States. Our RoboHelp training and support team
are all
Adobe certified. Please contact training@americanmediatraining.com if
you would like more
information on our New York RoboHelp custom or
on-site classes.
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.
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
About RoboDemo
Inserting a RoboDemo Movie
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
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