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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

Installing the Topic Player


One of the formats in which training content developed in UPK can be delivered is as Standalone Topic Files (file type .odtpc). Trainees will require a special player—the Topic Player—in order to be able to use these files.

Note

For more information on the Standalone Topic format, refer to Chapter 6, Publishing Content.

This Topic Player is available to all UPK users (who have a valid end user license!) but must be installed separately, by each trainee. This section explains how to install this Topic Player.

To install the Topic Player, carry out the following steps:

  1. 1. Locate the installer for the Topic Player. This is named odweb.exe, and can be found either in the same directory as the Standalone Topic Files that you have created (see Chapter 6, Publishing Content), or in your UPK installation directory, under User Productivity Kit\{version}\LibraryDocuments\Content\IOne\Library\Neutral\Publishing Common\Data\Parts. Run this installer, and the Choose Setup Language dialog box is displayed, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. Select your required installation language, and then click on OK. (Note that this selection influences the language in which the labels and buttons in the Topic Player are displayed. It does not affect the language in which the Topics are played.) The following screen is displayed:

  3. 3. Click on Next. The following screen is displayed:

  4. 4. If necessary, use the Change button to change the location into which the UPK executables will be installed. Normally, the default location is acceptable.

  5. 5. Click on Next. The following screen is displayed:

  6. 6. Click on Install. The following screen is displayed:

    Note

    You may see additional messages informing you that the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable is being installed, if it is not installed already.

    When the installation is complete, the following confirmation screen is displayed:

  7. 7. Click on Finish.

That's it. All done. Now, if you double-click on a Standalone Topic File (file type .odtpc) then the Topic Player will automatically be launched. Again, refer to Chapter 6, Publishing Content, for full details.