AuthorIT for Supervisors

You're concerned to maintain your organisation's high documentation standards, and you take the management of your documents and their content seriously. After all, documentation costs a lot of money to create, and represents a valuable organisational resource.

A great strength of AuthorIT is that it completely shields users from the complexities of formatting, and enables standards and system securities to be defined and controlled at a supervisory level. This course provides supervisors with the knowledge to set and control document output standards, and to perform essential administrative functions through AuthorIT's dedicated Administration Module.

The course is tutor-led by a Certified AuthorIT Consultant. Each course element comprises tutorial, demonstration, hands-on self-paced exercises and discussion.

Topics covered

Output control

• Understanding what is involved
  • AuthorIT templates
  • AuthorIT styles
  • Media objects
  • Publishing templates

Working with AuthorIT templates

• Understanding the role of templates
• Creating a new template
• Creating document structure with topic templates
• Defining related topics

Working with text styles

• Understanding styles
• Creating new styles
• Modifying existing styles

Working with page layout

• Understanding page-level control
• Using media objects
• Creating headers and footers in the Word output

Working with publishing templates

• Understanding the role of templates
• Customising the Word output
• Using the same content with different print page layouts
• Customising HTML outputs

Using the Administrator Module

• Understanding the role of the system administrator
• Controlling security
  • Defining users
  • Defining user groups
  • Setting user and group permissions
  • Defining release states
• Administering libraries
  • Creating a new library
  • Exporting a JET library to SQL
  • Exporting an SQL library to JET
  • Maintaning libraries
• Controlling variables
  • Understanding variable types
  • Adding new variables
  • Modifying variables
  • Using variables in HTML templates

Controlling history operation

• Selecting history save points
• Setting history archive options

Course administration

On-site delivery

On-line delivery