Training Outlines

Basic/Intermediate Course

During a hands on, three-day onsite or four-day web-based training course, a Certified Flare Instructor will cover basic and intermediate skills, including:

• Creating a new project
• Importing content (including existing RoboHelp projects)
• Creating and editing topics
• Working with images and video
• Creating navigation, including links, table of contents, and index
• Managing styles, skins, and other appearance features
• Efficient single-sourcing, including variables and conditional tags
• Publishing content to web and print

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CSS Training Course

We also offer a one-day on-site or two half-day web based training course that covers:

• CSS overview
• Creating, importing, and modifying stylesheets
• Text styles
• List styles
• Link and dynamic content styles
• Table styles
• Print styles
• Testing styles

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Project Management and Team Authoring

During a hands on, one-day on-site or two-day web-based training course, a Certified Flare Instructor will cover project management best practices and how you can use Flare in a team authoring environment.

Project Management Overview:

• About Project Management in Flare
• Conducting a High-level User and Task Analysis
• Estimating Projects
• Setting Usability Goals
• Job Roles
• Information Plan
• Best Practices

Development and Team Authoring Overview:

• About Working as a Team
• Workflow
• Adding an Annotation to a Topic
• Viewing and Hiding Annotations in a Topic
• About Source Control
• Binding a Project to Source Control
• Checking In a File
• Checking Out a File
• Getting the Latest Version of a File
• Viewing Differences Between Versions
• Rolling Back to a Previous Version of a File
• Viewing the Source Control Status
• Adding a File to Source Control
• Project Tracking
• Reviewing Project Reports
• Best Practices

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Single-Sourcing Training Course

We also offer a one-day on-site or two half-day web based training course that covers:

• Importing and re-importing documents
• TOCs and outlines
• Document design: master pages, headers, and footers, page layout
• Stylesheets: master stylesheets, page breaks, medium types, auto-numbering
• Creating and formatting cross-references, TOC, glossary, and index types
• Condition tags
• Variables and snippets
• Building, using, and publishing targets
• Master projects: adding, creating, reusing, and linking of master projects

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Migrating from FrameMaker® to Flare

During this live one-day interactive web session, we will explain how you can migrate FrameMaker documents to Flare and create print and online documentation, policies and procedures, knowledge bases, and other types of content. This advanced training course covers:

• Overview of topic-based authoring
• How FrameMaker features convert to Flare
• Preparing your FrameMaker documents and books for migration
• Best practices for importing documents
• Importing styles into Flare
• Importing Index Keywords and TOC's into Flare
• Importing images into Flare
• Importing tables and removing inline formatting
• Importing and creating cross references and links
• Page design and layout

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Services

Consulting services are also provided on a project basis by MadSkills, Inc. Services include assistance with existing content conversion, project analysis, assistance starting a new project correctly, or trouble shooting and workflow assistance. Training and three days of consulting are available as a "Quick Start" program.

If you’re interested in becoming a Certified Flare Instructor, please contact: MadCapInfo@MadCapSoftware.com