Arbortext Tips

Hello Arbortext Community!I am looking for customers to be featured presenters during our SLM track Breakout Sessions at LiveWorx 2016. We (and the rest of the community) would love to hear about your best practices in using Arbortext/Creo/SIM/Windchill products. Tips and Tricks that

Technical Illustrations are the most direct and efficient way to deliver technical information, but they must be fit for purpose. How can you be certain that the illustrations you create conform to all of the required specifications (S1000D, ATA, MIL-SPEC…)? What are illustration

Hi All,I am pleased to announce that PTC Arbortext Editor/Styler/Architect/Publishing Engine 7.0 M020 and PTC Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 11.2 M020 are now available for customer download from the PTC Software Download page under “Order or Download Software Updates”. For more

Using workspaces in Arbortext Content Manager (or Windchill) can be a bit confusing. How do you keep it clean? When should you create one? How long should you keep a workspace? How do you know which one to us (if you have several)? And, hey, while we're at it, why might you have

Hello all-The PTC Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 11.0 M100 release is now available for customers to download.  The release is available from the PTC Software Download page under “Order or Download Software Updates”.  It is located under the “Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher”

I am pleased to announce that PTC Arbortext Editor/Styler/Architect/Publishing Engine 6.1 M080 is now available for customer download from the PTC Software Download page under “Order or Download Software Updates”. For more details regarding this maintenance release, please check out

To kick off our TC Dojo Arbortext Edition, we took your requests and decided to jump right in to Styler. In this first session, we will show you how to build your foundation for your first Arbortext Style Sheet using the Single-Sourcing Solutions’ method. This is how we create new

In Arbortext 7.0, creating, editing, and manipulating DITA maps is easy to do! In this session we show you the basics for how it works.This session is accessible to Beginners just getting started with Arbortext and DITAView the RecordingThe video is now available for viewing from

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area (or within a short flight), TC Camp is coming up in 23 January 2016.If you haven't been to an unconference, you should know these aren't like regular conferences. There are no juried presentations. No powerpoint. No waiting through

We go to XML publishing for a lot of reasons. One of which is to achieve reusability of our information: Write it Once, Use it Anywhere. Often, beginning stylesheet developers will do a lot of repeated style coding to achieve desired output results. This style duplication, like information

In this webinar, we demonstrate the DITA feature keyrefs and conkeyrefs in Arbortext. The keyref and conkeyref mechanisms allow you to easily switch variable content. We will demonstrate how to create keys and key references; how to combine keys with maps for easier manageability;

I am pleased to announce that the following are now available for customer download!PTC Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 11.1 M010Release NotesPTC Arbortext Editor/Styler/Architect/Publishing Engine 7.0 M010 Editor/Styler/Architect Release NotesSPR Fixes

I'd like to encourage the users of this community to participate and attend our LiveWorx 2016 conference. It will take place in Boston, MA from June 6-9, 2016.   The call for participation is now open: LiveWorx : Contribute Your Story to LiveWorx 2016. ‌   Please select "Service Lifecyle Management" as the category for submitting anything related to Arbortext, Creo Illustrate, Service Information Manager etc.. We are very interested in hearing from you, and having you share with us and your peers about how you use the products, how you benefit, what advice you have for the rest of us! This will be a great opportunity to network, and we want to focus on you- the users!! So help me to make this happen- and plan on presenting and/or attending. (Presenters receive complimentary registration for the event).   If you have any questions- feel free to reach out to me directly and I'll try to help out.   Thanks again! Pushpinder

The PTC SLM Solution Management Team invites you to our upcoming PTC Technical Information Solutions User Community Webcast Series!On Wednesday November 18th, from 11-12pm EST join us for our next webinar: “Managing Translations with PTC Windchill Service Information Manager”, presented

Arbortext 6.1 M070 is now available for download from the ptc.com Support site.For more details regarding this maintenance release, please check out the release notes:For Arbortext Editor/Styler/ArchitectFor SPR Fixes in the release

Hi all-Now available for download are two of our newest releases - Arbortext 7.0 and APP 11.1. We are excited to provide you with some of the following changes:UI refreshInitial support for DITA 1.3Saving advanced searches for searching WindchillStyler source edit improvementsStylesheet

The PTC SLM Solution Management Team invites you to our upcoming PTC Technical Information Solutions User Community Webcast Series! We are hosting a monthly webcast to active support customers to keep you informed on the latest solution roadmaps, tips & tricks and best practices.On

Hello all-Arbortext 6.1 M060 is now available for download from the PTC support site.Some changes include:new environment variable allowing you to designate Styler as the default application when opening content from Windchillnew ACL set command for auto updating of gentextstripping

Unhappy Customers are Just the Beginning.A perennial question in the technical communication community is how to justify our work in financial terms that management will understand. One partial answer is to consider potential consequences of putting insufficient resources into technical

Hello A&D users,   I wanted to share this deck with you as it describes the key features in our next generation technical information solution for S1000D. Windchill 10.2 M030 is RTM this month and with it comes some exciting enhancements to the solution. Existing Arbortext S1000D customers are entitled to upgrade to the new solution if they are on maintenance. You can find more info on the solution on our website here.   Thanks   Ian Boulton.

The advent of electronic media and particularly the Web has profoundly changed how people seek and use information. Information seeking today is dominated by search, and not by search of individual works, but search of the whole: whole sites, whole doc sets, and, in particular, the