Authoring Bridge

The CCM of Choice for Technical Communication

The Authoring Bridge makes SDL Trisoft's powerful CCM capabilities available right from within your familiar XML authoring environment.

Work in your familiar environment

With the SDL Trisoft Authoring Bridge authors can create, capture and reuse information in XML using Arbortext Editor or XMetaL and at the same time manage that information in the SDL Trisoft CCM. It allows authors to work in their familiar environment rather than having to shift between the two tools. By providing direct access to the repository through the authoring tool, authors can focus on content creation without requiring technical knowledge on metadata structures, link management or file validation

Key functionalities of SDL Trisoft’s Authoring Bridge include:

• Direct Access from Arbortext Editor or XMetaL to the repository through an intuitive SDL Trisoft menu.
• DITA-based component authoring to help you realize the maximum benefits from DITA.
• Controlled mechanisms to create links and references between document components or smaller content chunks.
• Local Storage Manager which makes objects available on your local file system.
• Elaborate search capabilities allowing authors to retrieve and reuse even the smallest XML chunk.
• Support for the use of conditional text enabling an increased level of reuse and customization.