1. DxStudio 3.0 & XMetaL 8.0 Training Workshops
4/24/2014 and 5/22/2014
Today’s Presenters: Linda Barnes, Jackie Tidwell, Toney Sisk, Michael C. Oldenburg All DxStudio 3.0 Trainers Arne Kvadsheim, Jackie Tidwell, James R. Morey, Lesley Alexander-McVie, Libby Urner, Linda Barnes, Mary Sobczyk, Michael C. Oldenburg, Paul O’Rear, Randall DuBois, Scott Dines, Scott Schriefer, Steven Thomas, Toney Sisk
Linda Presenting

2. Agenda Introduction Walkthrough Guided Workshop Q/A Linda Barnes
Microsoft Office
11/24/2018
Agenda
Introduction
Linda Barnes
Laptops Closed
Walkthrough
Jackie Tidwell
Guided Workshop
Toney Sisk
Laptops Open
Q/A
Michael C. Oldenburg
Laptop Freedom
Linda Presenting
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3. What will you learn today?
Launching DxStudio 3.0 & XMetaL 8.0
Getting familiar with workspaces
Searching for your topics (Dx)
Uploading (Dx) and inserting art (XM)
Editing topics (XM)
Linking to other topics (XM) and external sites

4. Quick Update Scott Dines
Jackie presents

5. What’s different?
Titles are edited in the metadata of DxStudio; not XMetaL
Local preview is instant for Office.com or TechNet + MSDN
Less metadata per topic
Performance is much faster
Topics will be published once every 24 hours. The goal is to create a shorter time between deployments. Build deployment is based on size; support=20 min, templates=2.5 hrs.
You can save search queries, but you can’t share them.
Updates to DX and XM will be continuous from now to post-migration; a regular cadence will be established after all is migrated and stable.

6. This is our progress bar...
Linda Presenting
It’s a Cake Walk!

7. End to End Publishing Workflow
Linda Presents
Today the focus is DxStudio 3.0 and XMetaL 8.0
May 19th – deeper dive in to the e2e content development experience

8. Resources DxStudio 3.0 wiki
Communication – join Office Authors Yammer group
Log a support request
Use the OfficeMain_SupportRequest template
DxStudio 3.0 Office Hours – Weekly
Wednesday from 11 am – 12 noon (PDT), Conf room 17/3002

9. Overview
Jackie presents

11. Launch DxStudio Launch DxStudio. Select the Sandbox IW database.
Purpose
Sandbox IW
Test IW DxStudio Database Practice here; content will be overwritten IW
Production IW DxStudio Database Author and publish content to Office.com
Jackie presenting

12. Launch DxStudio Launch DxStudio. Select the IW database. Database
Jackie presenting
Database
Purpose IW
Production IW DxStudio Database Author and publish content to Office.com

13. Create your local, working folder
Note You will need to set up a local working folder that caches the DxStudio topics for each database.

14. Hello, DxStudio

15. Search for Existing or Stubbed Topic

16. Create a New Topic (stubs)
During quarterly planning, add topic ideas (or planned updates) to the planning workbooks.
Release Managers add bugs to Product studio & topics are ‘stubbed out’ into DxStudio.
DO NOT create new topics directly in DxStudio, since this breaks our topic-tracking workflow.
Create unplanned topics via a Product Studio bug, which triggers a stub to be created for you in DxStudio.

17. Upload Art
Each piece of art is contained within it’s own project folder. To upload art:
First, create an art project folder. Second, Add art and support files to the project folder.
Create Art Project folder
Navigate to the top-level Art folder, then click File > Request Art.
Fill in the following pieces of meta-data: Title: Type name for art (technically a project folder). Status: New Alt text: Type alternative text.
Click OK.
Add Art to Project folder
In the New folder, open the art project folder you just created.
Right-click the art project, then click Add Online File.
Add art from \\tk2offfsm03\FileShares\DXStudio3Training
This will add the art file that you want your user to see.

18. Edit a Topic
From DxStudio, navigate to the zzDeleteMe/zzTraining folder.
Select your topic.
Right-click the topic and click Edit.

19. Default text has some pretty good instructions!
Hello, XMetaL
Default text has some pretty good instructions!
Jackie Presenting: Not what you want by default. Show tags. Pin attribute and elements open. Remove tooltip. DON’T USE restore last open document. This runs a risk since someone else may have edited the document in the interim.
Emphaize icons bottom left for tags on/local preview
Different views depending on how you work

20. Working with Tags
Each piece of content is surrounded by a start tag and end tag.
Toney Presenting. You won’t see it if you can’t add it.

21. Working with Tags
Place your cursor according to what element you need to add.
Toney Presenting. You won’t see it if you can’t add it.

22. Icons, Quickly
Toney Presenting. You won’t see it if you can’t add it.

23. Link to other topics
Place cursor in topics where you want to insert link.
From the Xmetal toolbar, click Link.
In the Insert dialog, type the name of the topic you want to insert, For example, type “Create new worksheet.”
Select topic and click Insert.

24. Link to external sites
In the Insert Link dialog box, click the External Links tab.
Type the URL of the external site.
Note You can also add a FW link. *Wiki

25. Insert Art Place cursor where you want to insert art.
From the Xmetal toolbar, click Insert Art.
In the Insert Image dialog box, type the name of the art you previously uploaded. You can also type its filename.
Select the art and click Insert.

26. Publish Topics
In DxStudio, Make sure Properties pane is displayed: Click View > Pane > Properties
Right-click a topic.
In Properties pane, click Publishing tab.
In Publishing list, click Add/Update.

27. Publish Topics
In DxStudio, Make sure Properties pane is displayed: Click View > Pane > Properties
Click to select a topic.
In Properties pane, click Publishing tab.
In Publishing list, click Add/Update.

28. Preview, Staging, and Production
Preview is done from XMetaL 8.0 (avail now)
Staging is automatic
Production requires action by YOU
DxStudio>Add/Update

29. Guided Workshop

30. Q & A

31. Office.com E2E Publishing Timeline
Linda Presenting

32. Key Dates for English Markets (PDT)
6/16: Publishing is Open for Business
Upcoming Training this Summer
MSDN (TBD July)
TechNet (TBD August)
Pre-migration task topic:

33. Resources DxStudio 3.0 wiki
Communication – join Office Authors Yammer group
Log a support request
Use the OfficeMain_SupportRequest template
DxStudio 3.0 Office Hours – Weekly
Wednesday from 11 am – 12 noon (PDT), Conf room 17/3002