RE: Seeking Robohelp manual

["Janoff, Steve" <sjanoff -at- illumina -dot- com>]

Good point, Rick.

Good luck, Julie!

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Stone [mailto:rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:43 PM
To: Janoff, Steve
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com; Thomas, Julie
Subject: Re: Seeking Robohelp manual

Hi Steve

While there is definitely nothing wrong with that, it's not really any 
form of a structured "start to finish" sort of affair as a training 
manual would be. You don't have the gentle introduction in a specific 
order where things are added as they make sense to introduce them. 
Instead, what you get is a bit like a self service hardware store.

For example, perhaps you want to build some cabinets. Maybe you need the

hinges. If you know what you are there after, you find the hinges easily

and off you go. But it does nothing to help you assemble Cabinets by 
saying you might first select this type of wood. Then you would cut it 
as follows.

Cheers... Rick :)

Janoff, Steve wrote:
> What's wrong with this?
>
> http://www.adobe.com/support/robohelp/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: techwr-l-bounces+sjanoff=illumina -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+sjanoff=illumina -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
> Behalf Of Thomas, Julie
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 7:45 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Seeking Robohelp manual
>
> We are getting Robohelp 8 installed to start creating application help
> from our current user manuals. This will be the first time I've seen
the
> product in several years, and I'm the "beta tester" aka guinea pig for
> our group. Since I found the Adobe FrameMaker Classroom in a Book to
be
> very helpful in learning FrameMaker last year, I am looking for
> something similar for Robohelp. However, Adobe does not seem to have
any
> Robohelp manuals, and I don't have any experience with other
> publishers/authors. Does anyone have experience with other available
> Robohelp training publications? We will be starting with basic topic
> based, and moving to context sensitive help as we gain experience.
Since
> we are contractors we are not provided with actual training. (sigh)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Julie Thomas
 
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