Fw: FM + CMS + SMEs w/o $$$?

[Keith.Soltys at tmx.com]

I'm starting to use SmartDocs and will be rolling it out to an initial 
group of about a dozne users, none of whom are technical writers.

It gives Word users a lot of the capabilities that Frame users have had 
for a while: conditional text, reusable variables, and snippets, all of 
which can be combined as you see fit. It uses SharePoint as a repository 
for the SmartDocs content, but your documents can reside anywhere. 

I've been using it to condense multiple versions of specification 
documents into "master" versions from which I can output "snapshots" - 
that is versions made up of specific combinations of variables, snippets, 
and conditionals. So far, it seems to be working out pretty well and will 
save me and our group a lot of work in the long run. 

It's very easy to use and seems robust. But it is a Word-only tool. (Word 
2007 and 2010, at that). 

Frame has all of these capabilities, but SmartDocs makes it much easier to 
manage them across multiple documents. I may end up using it for some 
projects that I'd have used Frame for previously, just because it's so 
easy to use. And it's mulit-user, so our group can share reusable content 
across documents and project - something that is a pain to manage in 
Frame. 

Suggestion to any Frame developers out there readomg this: Now that Frame 
has SharePoint integration, look at putting together something like 
SmartDocs for Frame. You'd clean up.

Regards
Keith


> 
> I don't really know anything about this product, but Jeff's comment made 

> me think of it: http://www.thirtysix.net/smartdocs/default.aspx
> 
> 
> >Nadine
> 
> 
> >>________________________________
> >> From: Jeff Coatsworth <jeff.coatsworth at jonassoftware.com>
> >>To: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com> 
> >>Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:11:21 PM
> >>Subject: RE: FM + CMS + SMEs w/o $$$?
> >> 
> >>
> >> 
> >>IMHO FM's got an awful steep learning curve for just 
> word processing - I'd be inclined to just keep them on Word and have 
them submit 
> docs to you. Or go to something wiki-like (& cheap) like 
> Confluence.
> >>

--
Keith Soltys
Senior Technical Writer
Architecture
TMX Group
(416) 947-4397
http://www.tmx.com/



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