Immigration to Confluence

Kelly M. McDaniel

A Journey Through Foreign Customs

Information Developer III(Senior Technical Writer)

Rockwell SoftwareAustin, Texas

History

FrameMaker

Bound books and PDFs

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

Hmmm…feeling adventurous.

Signs of the

Arid Adobe Outback!?

He looks trepidated.

The Outback has a sign?

Arid Adobe Outback

• RoboHelp

• FrameMaker

• Acrobat

• Technical Communications Suite

Foreign Customs: Proprietary Complex

Same stuff, longer name, costs more.

Eclipse – Authoring and Production

• Conversion - Lots of hand work

• Book Paradigm – Keeper

Total Eclipse

Crikey!

Total Eclipse?!?

Eclipse to Confluence –

Confluence to EclipseHelp

• Authoring in Eclipse to produce EclipseHelp

• Authoring in Confluence to produce EclipseHelp usingScroll 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 EclipseHelpRCP applications or deploy to InfoCenter.

K15t Scroll Wiki Exporter

Confluence EclipseHelp (.jar)

No animation, sorry.

Enough scrummy adventure! I’m

hittin’ the shower!

Crikey!

Wrong slide! H

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

that…that scrum!

He’s certainly

agile now!

“Scum,” Mary.It’s scum!

Know

ledge C

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al

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

Delta of the Great Confluence

Information

Straits of Budget

Confluence as an Authoring ToolDesign, 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

Benefits Oh boy! More

bullets!!!• Text files

no proprietary binaries

• Markup standards-based

• Logical easy to teach new authors

• Customizableplugins: Atlassian, 3rd party, User Community, RYO

• Stable*nix

• Fast/Efficientanyone can fix an issue

• CollaborationDevelopment Space

• Jira Integration

•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.

Can we have beer and

decompression?

Thank you!