April 11th Webinar: FrameMaker 11 workspaces and quick edits (incl. "pods")

[russ at weststreetconsulting.com]

Hi Maxwell,

Sounds like a good webinar to have. While you are on the subject of
workspaces and pods, I wanted to bring up an important issue to me - the
lack of information on how to make custom FDK dialog boxes (and
presumably ExtendScript dialogs as well) that can be added to
workspaces. The FDK documentation says you can do it, but doesn't say
how. I've asked on this list, the Adobe user-to-user forums, and the
Yahoo framedev list, with no results except crickets chirping.

Many of us rely heavily on FDK and/or ES extensions with custom pods. It
is a significant obstacle to the acceptance of workspace tools, etc.,
when we are unable to configure them with our custom interfaces as well.

Thanks,
Russ

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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:15:17 -0700
From: Maxwell Hoffmann <mhoffman at adobe.com>
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Subject: ANN: April 11th Webinar: FrameMaker 11 workspaces and quick
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I don't announce most of my webinars in this forum, but thought this one
may be of interest since it focuses on the "new" UI, how to customize
workspaces, and how to deal with docking menus, and when to use pods as
a timesaver. NOTE: this webinar will be approached from a newcomer's or
beginner's level.

Webinar will be recorded: if you register you will receive follow up
email with the URL.

TWEET below, followed by webinar description:

April 11th 10AM PAC Webinar: "For Word Users: Sess 6) customized
workspaces & Quick Edits in #FrameMaker 11" http://adobe.ly/11dYMCf
@maxwellhoffmann

Every product has its frustrations; one commonly associated with Word is
the number of times that you must "drill down" several levels to get to
a desired menu. FrameMaker has approached this challenge in a unique way
with "workspaces," which present the most commonly used menus associated
with particular tasks.

Users benefit greatly from their ability to customize workspaces by
docking and placing collapsed or expanded menus where they wish to find
them. Even without customization, FrameMaker will gradually reduce the
choices available as you move into highly specific tasks, like editing
DITA in the XML Code View. If you work with contractors or team members
who only occasionally assist with FrameMaker projects, you can greatly
reduce the learning curve by creating customized workspaces with very
limited choices.


Quick edits refers to a number of convenient short cuts that will
display choices (e.g. paragraph styles, conditional tags, DITA elements)
in a vertical catalog adjacent to your current insertion point.
Mastering this feature enables you to author complex content even more
quickly.

Whether you are a Word user contemplating a move to FrameMaker, or a
veteran FrameMaker users still using an older version, you may benefit
greatly from this session. Join presenter Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe's
Global Product Evangelist for Tech Comm Suite, who has extensive tech
comm publishing experience, having worked for a variety of publishing
vendors and translation agencies before coming on board with Adobe. He
is a former FrameMaker product marketing manager with Frame Technology
(before Adobe acquired the product), and has trained over 1,200 people
in scalable publishing solutions over the years.

You may register for this webinar at: http://adobe.ly/11dYMCf

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