Authoring DITA task topics

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Course type: Self-paced e-learning

Estimated hours for course completion: 2 hours

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Course outline:

Creating a task topic

  • What’s new in DITA 2.0
  • Strict or general tasks
  • Task topic structure
  • Adding introductory elements

Creating the steps

  • First steps
  • Giving the reader choices
  • A table of choices
  • Getting more detailed
  • Showing examples and results
  • Interrupting the flow

Finishing the task

  • Task results
  • Making an example
  • What’s next?

Best practices for tasks

  • Plan your tasks
  • Provide appropriate context
  • Use a reasonable number of steps
  • Best practices for hierarchical steps
  • Keep an eye toward reuse