Description
Prerequisites: DITA 1.3 training or equivalent
Estimated hours for course completion: 6 hours
Provided by the content strategy experts at Scriptorium, this course offers a comprehensive introduction to the Heretto component content management system (CCMS). It will guide you through essential functionality from content authoring, organization, and reuse to administrative functions like publishing, version control, taxonomy, and metadata. You’ll learn how to work with DITA content in Heretto, generate various outputs, and implement efficient workflows.
Course outline:
Module 1: Navigation and authoring
- Lesson 1: Getting started with Heretto
- Lesson 2: The Content Library
- Lesson 3: Creating new topics
- Lesson 4: Authoring and editing
Module 2: Maps, publishing, and workflows
- Lesson 1: Creating maps
- Lesson 2: Publishing output from maps
- Lesson 3: Assignments
- Lesson 4: Review and approval workflow
Module 3: Reuse and linking
- Lesson 1: Managing reusable content components
- Lesson 2: Reuse by reference
- Lesson 3: Filtering for personalization
- Lesson 4: Linking
Module 4: Administration
- Lesson 1: Quality assurance
- Lesson 2: Reports
- Lesson 3: Versioning with branches and releases
- Lesson 4: Taxonomy and metadata
- Lesson 5: Templates
- Lesson 6: User administration
All modules contain videos and assessments. Within a module, you must pass the assessment for each lesson to move forward to the next lesson. However, each module is independent from the others in the course, so you can take them in any order. Scriptorium recommends beginning with Module 1, especially if you are new to using the Heretto CCMS.
