Cincom Eloquence® Advanced Author Training
Document Design throughout the Enterprise
The Advanced Authoring course will expand on topics covered in the Basic Authoring course. It is designed to train customers on designing and creating highly complex documents that include advanced variable processing and intricate formatting requirements. This is an instructor-led course with hands-on exercises to facilitate learning.
Your Benefit
You’ve already achieved a solid understanding of design practices and development guidelines. Now, learn to use powerful program calls to reach into your enterprise, tap your data stores and bring your customers content that applies exactly to them.
Class Syllabus
Design and performance
- Review of performance reactions based on document design
- Dynamic charts
- Image size
- Font usage
- Complex queries
Use of arrays
- How to create array variables
Complex functions and rules
- Loops
- Array rules
- Including program exits
- Using conditions
Using the formats table
- Upper- and lowercase exceptions
Engine and Web program exits
- This topic discusses the use of program exits in document design. It is not intended to cover the development of the exits.
Complex Word functions
- Setting up templates
- Page numbering inside a collection
- Use of inline formatting
- Use of tables within columns
- Table of contents and use of field codes
- Indexing
- Use of watermarks
- Tabs, spacing and margins
Complex creation of entities
- How to create two masters with two different variable sets that reuse the same components.
- Creating multiple variations that require multiple complex qualifiers. For example, multiple language variations triggered by multiple qualifiers.
- Dynamic vs. static collections.
Complex output
- Limitations for specific print outputs
- Designing documents for multiple output types
Who Should Attend
- This course is intended for experienced document authors and the technical teams that support them as they integrate within the enterprise.
Prerequisites
Cincom Eloquence Advanced Author Training students must have taken the Basic Author Training Course. They should have an ability to understand detailed business logic and the business data used within their organizations.
Two days/certification course
