Modern Interactive Electronic Technical Documentation (IETD) is characterized by efficient creation of documents. This includes easy to handle linking methods and ways to assign hotspots, either within or between documents.
The use of conventional content management systems (CMS) is often cumbersome. For example, users have to switch continuously between a database interface and editor. This makes working less intuitive and hampers the technical writer’s process of understanding.
HiCo-ICS Connector for Arbortext® Editor™ has been developed with the goal to make life easier for technical writers, especially when they do error-prone or monotonous tasks. Technically, this is achieved by extending the features of PTC Arbortext® Editor™ and integrating new modules.
Efficient and intuitive link composing via LinkCompositor. No more erroneous links.
CMS functionality, such as checking in, checking out, editing, preview, building of publication structures, is provided by ContentExplorer
Toolbars and menus are customizable; multilingual user interface
Elaborate template management enables simple reuse of contents
Effective change management and change tracking
Out of the box ContentPackages (DTD/schemas, stylesheets, templates) supporting international standards such as ASD S1000D®, ATA iSpec 2200, iETD-ExportStandard
Advanced Help – context dependant help incorporating project specific documentation and guidelines
Hot Integration – Full integration of menus in PTC Arbortext® Editor™, a future-oriented SGML, and XML-editor