28 Oct MadCap Flare Certificate Course
The comprehensive training program is meticulously designed to help technical writers gain expertise in MadCap Flare, an industry-leading technical authoring tool.
This six-session, 15-hour course covers a wide range of MadCap Flare features, including:
- Project setup and organization
- Single-sourcing capabilities (Conditional tagging, variables, and snippets)
- Customizable HTML5 output
- Responsive design options
- Version control
- Collaboration and review workflows
- Best practices for topic-based authoring
- Search optimization
To summarize, you will learn all about content authoring, design, migration, and publishing.
Schedule and Details
- Dates: May 20-21, 27-28, June 3-4
- Time: 10.15 AM-12.15 PM IST
- Group Interaction with Q&A after sessions: 21 days
Requirement
- MadCap Flare installed before the first session. (Mac users must check if they can access after installation)
- Access to Microsoft Teams to attend the sessions.
Who should attend?
- All who want to gain expertise in the day-to-day life working with MadCap Flare.
- First-time users
- Leads who manage CSS
- Leads who are responsible for creating website using Flare
- People responsible for creating eLearning content using Flare
Key Takeaways
By the end of the course, participants would be able to create a documentation site on their own. The site would consist of:
- Home Page
- PDF Downloads Page
- 2 Guides (HTML & PDF formats)
Key Highlights
- HELPLINE available after the sessions for related questions
- Practice-based sessions
- Creating projects during the course
- Toolkit for future reference
- Certificate from Tech Writer’s Tribe ( Registered as per Indian Law) after completion of exam with minimum 70% marks.
Registration
Curriculum and Schedule
Overview and Authoring (Part 1)
- Introduction to MadCap Flare and UI
- Overview of MC Flare
- Basic and advanced capabilities
- Brush-up of regularly used ribbon tabs
- Overview of rarely used ribbon tabs and features (For example, Analysis, Review, Source Control, etc.)
- Input and Output Types
- Overview of possible input with examples of common ones (For example, MS Word, HTML File Set, Flare Project)
- Overview of possible output types with examples of common ones (For example, HTML5-Doc Site and PDF)
- Key Concepts and Terminologies
- Walkthrough of MC Flare specific concepts and terminologies
- These will be used throughout the course
- Show and Tell
- Sample HTML5 Doc site with capability to download PDF documents
- By the last session, all participants will be able to create an output like this.
- Create projects using templates
- Learn to use a template to create a project.
- Learn to use the Template Manager
- Folder structure and walkthrough
- Learn about the project’s folder structure, default files, where to find what.
- Overview of Skins, Variables, ToCs, Targets, Template Pages, Page Layouts, Stylesheets
- Create topics
- Learn to use the editor
- Apply functions to create topics
- Headings, Lists, Tables, Drop-Down Text
- Heading levels, using them from the style list – List types
- Table ribbon-menu, context menu, properties, cell properties, best practices
- Create drop-down text
- Multimedia: Images and Videos
- Linking: Hyperlinks and Cross References
Authoring (Part 2) and Styling
- Conditional text and topics
- At paragraph level
- At topic level
- Single Sourcing: Snippets, Variable
- Creating variable sets for global and target levels
- Creating and using snippets
- Microcontent
- Introduction and use cases
- Single-sourcing using microcontent
- Creating and using microcontent
- Skins
- Overview: Skins and components (Header, Search, Navigation, etc.)
- Editing skins
- Creating skins using factory templates
- Applying skins to targets
Styling (Continued)
- Overview
- Inline formatting and stylesheets
- Style precedence
- Best practices
- Stylesheets (CSS)
- CSS concepts
- Creating stylesheet, Stylesheet Editor
- Applying at topic, target, and project levels
- Applying styles at content level
- Style Window and Formatting Window
- Editing an existing CSS
- Table Styles
- Creating Table styles
- Applying table styles via Table Properties
Web and Print Layout
Layout – (Web)
- Template Pages
- Proxies: Explanation and walkthrough
- Creating Template Pages
- Applying template pages at topic and project levels
- Editing proxy properties
Layout – (Print): Page Layouts
- Creating page layouts for cover page and topic pages
- Customizing headers and footers using variables
- Creating Cover Page and Contents Page
Structuring Web and Print Output: Table of Content
- Creating primary and feature/guide-specific ToCs
- ToC Editor and Node properties for Print output
- Printed Output properties
Targets – Outputs | Project Quality | Search
Targets – Outputs
- HTML5 Targets
- Overview: Explanation and Target Editor walkthrough
- Creating an HTML5 Target
- Building HTML5 output
- PDF Targets
- Overview: Explanation and Target Editor walkthrough
- Creating an PDF Target
- Building PDF output
- Publishing
- Batch Targets and Scheduling
- Build Complete Doc Website
Project Quality: Project Analysis Reports
- Overview: Ways to maintain project quality
- Analysis reports: Broken links, Unused Items, Snippet/Variable Suggestions
Search
- Search Optimization
- Ways to improve your content’s findability using Flare
- Implement all ways and demo
- Search Filters
- Create Concepts and apply them to topics
- Create a Filter Set
- Apply the Filter Set to targets
- Meta Tags
- Learn to create
- Apply
Source Control | Reviews | eLearning
Source Control: GitHub/TFS/Subversion
- Overview: Source control features and integration
- Configuration
- Project Binding
- Source control actions: Push, Pull, Commit
Reviews
- Reviews via Flare
- Review tasks: Tracking changes, providing feedback, creating and using review packages
eLearning
- Overview
- eLearning and its capabilities
- Creating eLearning tests
- Integrating in documentation website
- Configuring settings in the Target Editor
- Building output to test eLearning
About the Instructor
Shrutika Kalgutkar
Technical Publications Manager with 13 years of experience in software technical documentation
Specializes in documenting products from scratch, revamping existing documentation sets, and content strategy.
Self-taught UX advocate and strongly believes in applying UX principles to technical documentation.
She enjoys challenges and at her current organization, took it upon herself to migrate the entire documentation set consisting of 4 products to MadCap Flare from scratch. With MadCap Flare, she specializes in setting up doc environments, designing sites, creating styles and templates, and creating content.
At her current organization, Quest Software, she heads the Technical Publications team for 6 products and contributes to product design and UX.
Passionate about animal welfare and actively works for street animals.
Testimonials
The training is exactly in sequence on how we are going to use MadCap flare. The trainer is very knowledgeable and answered all the questions. This is a very nice course to start your journey with MadCap Flare.
Samyak Mukherjee
Oracle
I like how structured the entire course is. The possibilities of using Mad Cap Flare as an authoring tool could be endless and for a newbie it might be a bit overwhelming at times but the course is designed in such a way that even a first time user can start using the tool from the word go. Shrutika is very knowledgeable and very helpful as a trainer. As a trainer, she is very keen to clear our doubts and concerns.
Jobi P Joshi
HCL
The training was greatly conducted. The overall objective is definitely met. Shrutika as a trainer, has great knowledge on the subject and she could deliver effectively. I feel it's a must have for those who are going to start career with Flare. Shrutika has very good knowledge in Flare. The way she train us is very commendable.
Sankha Mishra
AiDash
TWT has become my go to place for all technical writing related topics, and MadCap Flare training was no different. Shrutika is brilliant in explaining the MadCap Flare tool and she is friendly as well.
Binoy TV
Markem-Imaje
The course on Madcap Flare was very much helpful, and the online exercise and the offline tasks helped a lot in understanding the concepts, and gave the required practice. Shrutika as a trainer has really framed the course to build a perfect foundation which has provided enough opportunities to explore more.
Vishnu Chandroth
Collins
She is very knowledgeable in her area. And, was very patient thoroughout. Her conduct was very positive when people (who joined late) demanded a rerun of the concept. She explained all the concepts well and made us practice them in the session. That was a good part. It was great interacting with her. Overall, I am satisfied with the training. Thank you.
Harsha Ramwani
Baker Hughes
Thanks TWT for such good courses. The trainer is very nice, informative, soft spoken and answers all query.
Richa Arora
TechM
Excellent in one word. Knowledge, patience: the trainer, Shrutika knows how to manage the flow of the training
Venkat Santosh Kumar Gumma
Accenture
Shrutika is proficient in what she is doing. She was very interactive and was able to answer questions and resolve some issues which we were facing during the course.
P.Pavithra Selvakumari
Freelancer
Trainer has a good working knowledge on Madcap Flare. Amazing TWT team. Helps Tech Writers to learn New/Existing tools.
Swathi Reddy
KPMG
She is a good trainer. Her communication is also good as per my understanding.
Nandadulal Patra
Cloud4C Services
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