ADOBE® ROBOHELP® 9

Adobe® RoboHelp® 9 software is an easy-to-use solution for technical communicators to author, collaborate, personalize, and optimize content for help systems, policies and procedures, and professional knowledgebases for multichannel, multidevice publishing. Save time with collaborative reviews, reusable assets, and dynamic user-centric content. Boost participation with user-generated content and moderated or stored commenting.

Next-generation collaboration and review workflows

Collaborate with authors, subject matter experts (SMEs), and end-users using Adobe® RoboHelp® advanced PDF shared reviews, live linking of shared resources, moderation-enabled commenting workflows in Adobe AIR® Help, topic-rating and other multi-author environment capabilities.

Dynamic user-centric content

Improve the end-user experience by enabling personalized filtering of content. Author content once and deliver personalized and accurate content that is dynamically filtered based on users’ role, department, geography, products, operating system, or any other parameter specified by the author.

Shared reusable resources

Save time and boost productivity by reusing assets across authors and projects. Maintain consistency and conform to organizational and industry standards using linked resources that can be updated simultaneously.

Community-generated content

Enrich the quality of your content by adding Web 2.0 interactivity with enhanced Adobe® AIR® Help features that empower users to add comments and feedback, and generate relevant content independently.

Publish to SharePoint

Publish RoboHelp output to SharePoint site using Universal Naming Convention (UNC path).

Import multiple Word files simultaneously, along with indexes, glossaries, and tables of contents. Easily map Word styles to Adobe® RoboHelp® styles. Repurpose Word content for HTML on import, and use markers to identify context-sensitive help topics.

Content Curation and moderation enabled commenting

Enable topic ratings, and public and private comments. Configure and moderate comments; store them on corporate network or on web via an Adobe® AIR® application.

External web/Community-generated content support

Create rich, interactive help content by providing access to external web content (Google search, blogs, wikis, forums etc.) alongside the authoritative documentation —just specify or preselect search metadata while authoring.

Popular author-friendly user interface

RoboHelp built its reputation on helping the author focus on content creation instead of the technology. Technical communicators fine it easy to manage all of the assets typical of today's knowledge bases and online help. This includes a multiple document interface and very clean XHTML code with built-in W3C validation.

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