Authors who are unaware of the standard can place Tips and Hints throughout the topic without realizing they've broken the corporate standard. Novell also wanted its authoring tool to speed production by providing an easy way to manage projects, topics, links, graphics, context IDs, and index terms. This management automates many tasks and minimizes editing and compiling passes and rework. Some of the software we looked at offered ease of use, but only for specific outputs, such as HTML or Windows Help. Others offered powerful SGML functionality but were difficult to learn and use.
Authors can continuously view the document's structure in an intuitive outline format.
And they can continue to take advantage of FrameMaker software's formatting capabilities. This is a major advantage over other SGML-based tools, which restrict the formatting options available when an author is using structure. Integration with an Oracle database provides the project, topic, link, graphic, context ID, and index management. The resulting tool is called HelpWise. The Oracle database included in HelpWise contains thousands of topics in an on-line help project, as well as the links, index terms, and other information.