Planning
Plan for publication management, user and task workflow, assembly of your topics into publications, and for managing versions to use.
- Plan new and update existing topics and publications
- The information architect identifies required publications, publication releases and version updates. They identify all new topics and topics that need to be updated for a new publication or publication version. In addition to helping the information architect with this proactive planning, Content Manager is flexible and allows last-minute, reactive changes to the content when appropriate.
- Assign tasks to authors
- The information architect creates any new objects, or new versions of existing objects, defines their metadata and performs the editorial assignments. The system automatically sends the assigned tasks to the author’s inbox. This process can be complemented by e-mail notification.
- Assemble topics into publications
- The information architect assembles the structure of the publication (i.e. table of contents) by using an easy drag-and-drop mechanism. Content Manager automatically creates an XML object that captures this structure. This object is named, as it is in DITA, the Map.
- Version management
- The Content Manager repository manages structured component-level content and all its versions. Content Manager also manages unstructured documents, including images, and all of their versions.
- Select versions of images
- To finalize a publication, the information architect selects the exact version for each object included in that publication (topics, maps, images, etc.).
- Customizable workflow
- The fully integrated, configurable workflow enables authors to send topics or publications for approval, review, translation or publishing. The content is sent to the person in charge of the next step in the production process through a number of configurable inboxes.