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Oracle User Productivity Kit 3.5

By : Dirk Manuel
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Oracle User Productivity Kit 3.5

By: Dirk Manuel

Overview of this book

As the complexity of software applications increases and the length of the implementation life cycles decreases, companies are looking for effective ways of training users in new applications, and the new releases of existing applications. Oracle's User Productivity Kit solves these problems by enabling the rapid creation of software application simulations, which are used for training purposes or to generate business documents. Although UPK provides such advanced features, nothing has been written about this application yet. This book provides a guided approach to building high-quality, re-functional simulations of tasks performed in software applications. With this book in hand, it is easy for organizations that are implementing or upgrading software to meet their full training and documentation requirements. This book explains how to harness all of the functionality provided by Oracle's User Productivity Kit, formerly known as OnDemand, to develop better quality training. It also covers the advanced topics of customizing UPK's built-in delivery formats, and defining new ones to extend the capabilities of UPK. This book explains how to make the most of Oracle User Productivity Kit's available functionality to create high-quality simulations. These simulations can be used during instructor-led training, self-directed learning, or refresher training. By following the approach described in this book, you will create world-class training material that your trainees will find useful, engaging, and informative. As a result, they will remember more of what they are taught, and will be better equipped to use the application on which you are training them. In turn, they will become more productive sooner, make fewer mistakes, and require less support. To ensure effective knowledge transfer through training simulations, it is necessary to add a business context to recordings, and to provide additional explanations. This book will teach you more than simple mouse-clicks and keystrokes.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Oracle User Productivity Kit 3.5
Credits
About the author
Acknowledgment
About the reviewer
Preface
Object Types

Publishing Documents


UPK provides the capability to publish to a number of different document formats. Obviously, this information is almost entirely the same as the on-line output, with the addition of one or two specialized pieces of information that are defined via the Topic's Properties. The publishing process is exactly the same as above, but the output is different.

All of the additional information is pure text (that is, there is no contextual information associated with it), so in theory you could put whatever information you wanted into these Properties. However, the labels will still say what UPK wants them to say. You can customize the output documents (as explained in Chapter 12, Configuring UPK), but the labels in the Properties pane in the Library will still be the same.

You can choose to have any of the document output types output to Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, or both, although if you choose PDF, UPK simply outputs the content to Word anyway, and then creates a PDF from that...