Immigration to Confluence

Kelly M. McDaniel

A Journey Through Foreign Customs

Information Developer III (Senior Technical Writer)

Rockwell Software Austin, Texas

History!!

FrameMaker

Bound books and PDFs

Desired single-source, re-use, standards-based

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Hmmm… feeling adventurous.

Signs of the

Arid Adobe Outback!?

He looks trepidated.

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The Outback has a sign?

Arid Adobe Outback

•  RoboHelp

•  FrameMaker

•  Acrobat

•  Technical Communications Suite

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Foreign Customs: Proprietary Complex

Same stuff, longer name, costs more.

Eclipse – Authoring and Production

•  Conversion - Lots of hand work

•  Book Paradigm – Keeper

Total Eclipse !

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Crikey!

Total Eclipse?!?

Eclipse to Confluence –

Confluence to EclipseHelp

•  Authoring in Eclipse to produce EclipseHelp

•  Authoring in Confluence to produce EclipseHelp using Scroll Wiki Exporter plug-in

Tools for Wiki-based Documentation …solutions that make documentation easier, so everyone can contribute information, and track the process.

Scroll Wiki Exporter for EclipseHelp

RCP applications or deploy to InfoCenter.

K15t Scroll Wiki Exporter

Confluence EclipseHelp (.jar) !

No animation, sorry.

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Enough scrummy adventure! I’m

hittin’ the shower!

Crikey!

Wrong slide! H

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E-e-e-ewww! He was caked in

that…that scrum!

He’s certainly agile now!

“Scum,” Mary. It’s scum!

Sheesh! That’s a lot of effort for a bad pun. Collaboration

Straits of Budget

Confluence as an Authoring Tool!Design, author, edit product documentation, release notes, and

installation guide.

•  EclipseHelp – via Scroll Wiki Exporter for EclipseHelp (K15t)

•  PDF Installation Guide – via native PDF export feature

•  HTML - via native HTML export feature

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Benefits Oh boy!

More bullets!!!

•  Text files no proprietary binaries

•  Markup standards-based

•  Logical easy to teach new authors

•  Customizable plugins: Atlassian, 3rd party, User Community, RYO

•  Stable *nix

•  Fast/Efficient anyone can fix an issue!

•  Collaboration Development Space!

•  Jira Integration !

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• Economical • Compatible • Non-proprietary • Scalable!

Enough with The *#@&%

bullets!

Visit the K15t booth.!

Official Sponsor

...und er spricht Deutsch wie ein

Texaner.

Sie sind großartige Leute!

#summit12

Confluence is a great adventure.

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Can we have beer and

decompression?

Thank you!