AEM Guides. Done Right.

Session 1: Introduction to DITA and Core Concepts: Learn about the DITA standard, its history, and its importance in the industry. The session also covers the core concepts of DITA, focusing on topics, their types, and the fundamental elements that make up DITA content. Participants will gain a foundational understanding necessary for the following sessions.

Session 2: DITA Elements, Attributes, and Values:  Explore the technical aspects of DITA, focusing on the elements, attributes, and values that form the building blocks of DITA content. Participants will explore the common elements used within DITA topics, particularly within body, conbody, refbody, and task structures. The session also covers inline elements and their roles in enhancing content clarity and functionality.

Session 3: Advanced DITA Structures: Participants will explore more complex DITA structures in this session, including maps, bookmaps, and reltables. These structures are crucial for organizing and managing large sets of content. The session also introduces supporting attributes for reuse, highlighting how they enable efficient content management and dynamic content delivery.

Session 4: DITA "Value Add" Features:  Explore advanced features of DITA that provide significant value to organizations, such as topic and map level metadata, content reuse, key management, and conditional publishing. Participants will learn how to implement these features in their DITA content to maximize efficiency and effectiveness. The session also covers strategies for managing content variants and versions .

Session 1: About Adobe Experience Manager Guides + Manage Content: Introduction to AEM Guides, its benefits, key features, and essential content management concepts.

Session 2: Author Content: Create and preview topics, and author content using AEM Guides. Discuss use of desktop tools.

Session 3: Work with the Web Editor: Launch the Web Editor, edit topics, explore Web Editor features, shortcuts, and different views.

Session 4: Work with the Map Editor: Create maps, explore both basic and advanced map editing features, and additional Map Editor functionalities.

Session 5: Review Topics or Maps + Manage Metadata: Review topics or maps, manage review tasks, and work with metadata including tagging and smart tagging.

Session 6: Output Generation: Generate output with various presets and profiling, create and manage baselines, and bulk activation.

Session 7: Translate Content + Generate Output of FrameMaker Documents: Best practices for translation, view translation status, and FrameMaker document output.

Session 8: Reports + Review + Q&A: Generate and analyze various reports, review key concepts, and address any remaining questions.

Note that this is not heavily hands-on as individual set up and configuration may require hours or days of discovery, implementation, testing, and troubleshooting. We explore details of what needs to be done, and how to gather required information and consult on best practices.

Session 1: Introduction and Installation: Introduce AEM Guides and guide participants through the installation process, including the configuration of key components and best practices for ensuring a successful setup.

Session 2: Administration and Customization: Explore user management, security configurations, document states, and customization of the AEM Guides Web Editor, emphasizing practical use cases and advanced configuration techniques.

Session 3: Content Management and Templates: Discuss and demonstrate content migration, filename configuration, template setup, and version management, with a focus on how these elements impact content management and consistency across AEM Guides.

Session 4: Advanced Features and Workflow Management: Dive into advanced features such as output generation, workflow customization, translation management, and search configuration, ensuring that participants are well-equipped to handle complex content management scenarios in AEM Guides.