skip navigation

Home >> Training courses >>

AuthorIT for Adminstrators and Users - a self paced, home study training course

Is this course for me?

AuthorIT logoAuthorIT course

This self-paced training course is for:

  • AuthorIT administrators, managers, and content developers who need to learn the principles of planning, designing and writing effective documentation using AuthorIT.
  • Administrators of the AuthorIT library who need to know the basics of working with the AuthorIT V4 Administrator module.

You'll learn at your pace, in your office or at home, with the comprehensive self-paced training workbooks materials written by one of the world's leading experts in AuthorIT .

What will I learn?

As you go through the course, the two workbooks give you detailed information and exercises that helps you build your first sample AuthorIT project. Following this course, you will be able to:

  • Save time and money by approaching your development in an organised and informed way
  • Exploit AuthorIT's object-oriented approach to documentation to analyse and plan your documentation projects effectively in a single source environment.
  • Receive an introduction to the AuthorIT development concepts

In the Administrators' workbook, you'll also learn how to use the AuthorIT to:

  • Create a library.
  • Create groups and users.
  • Set folder permissions.
  • Maintain the library.
  • Get practice using AuthorIT to:
    • Add and modify styles and templates.
    • Customize the outputs.
    • Create a company style guide.

Topics covered in detail

AuthorIT for Administrators

workbook

Using AuthorIT

workbook
  • Create and maintain a JET library
  • Create groups, and assign users to those groups
  • Create and modify folders
  • Define release states to track development progress
  • Assign permissions to users by folder and release state
  • Add and maintain variables
  • Set history options
  • Create and modify templates
  • Create, duplicate, and modify styles
  • Use media objects to customize the different outputs
  • Open and log into a library
  • Move objects between folders for organizational purposes
  • Use multiple windows effectively
  • Set user and library options
  • Customize the Styles toolbar
  • Assign keystrokes to styles
  • Preview objects
  • View the object history
  • Use the various templates
  • Use conditional content
  • Publish different outputs
  • Create books and use the Book Editor
  • Customize the title page for printed output
  • Use the AuthorIT Importer
  • Add topics and use the Topic Editor
  • Add text, graphics, hyperlinks, and variables to topics
  • Apply styles to content
  • Use tables and lists
  • Search the library and locate objects
  • Use Find and Replace
  • View object relationships
  • Assign release states
  • Reuse content
  • Create and maintain hyperlinks
  • Add and reuse graphics
  • Create an index
  • Add a glossary
  • Implement version control

AuthorIT for Adminstrators and Users contains all the information in Using AuthorIT and more.

Prerequisites

  • No prior knowledge of AuthorIT is necessary.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Word or FrameMaker.
  • A reasonable idea of your organisation's documentation requirements.
  • The names of any outputs currently used or planned for the future. (For example: Paper-based, WinHelp, Microsoft HTML Help, Web pages.)
  • Access to a copy of AuthorIT (version 4)

What you'll receive when you buy this course

With your purchase of one or more copies, you'll receive:

  • "AuthorIT for Administrators" and "Using AuthorIT" workbooks. These materials a logical, streamlined process when presenting the materials.
  • Preparation documents for the Administrator's course.
  • Source (supplemental) files used with some of the exercises.
  • Up to one hour of consulting, either by email or telephone, for questions related to concepts covered in the materials.

Money back satisfaction guarantee

100% guaranteeOur online courses, DVDs and reports come with a 30-day money back satisfaction guarantee.

You'll get a full refund if you are not 100% happy.

Cost of the course

The cost of the course is £179 (= $358) ex VAT per delegate.

If you wish more than one delegate to complete the course, change the quantity to the the number of delegates you have.

The workbooks are password protected and can only be installed on one system for use by one person. If you purchase the workbooks, and you need to install them on more than one system (for example, a desktop and a laptop), you will need a second password. Multiple users must purchase their own copies.

Please note we accept payment in US $, STERLING and  EUROS.

You will be given the option to choose your currency when you confirm your credit card details.

Ordering is simple. Just click the BUY NOW logo below. You will be taken straight to our ordering system at 1Shoppingcart.com. You can pay using credit card or debit card. Prices ex VAT.

The ordering system is secure and safe, as 2Checkout.com, Inc. is our authorized retailer for this product.

Your Credit Card Statement will show an entry entitled "Cherryleaf".

Credit cards

(Alternatively, if you wish to pay via PayPal, BACS or cheque then please contact us.)