Re: How do you manage changes to names

["John Posada" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I author in FrameMaker and RoboHelp. In both products, we only place product
names (as well as document names for instances where you refer to a
document, such as User Guide, from another deocument) as variables. If
anything changes, redefine the variable and done.

Our department has a catalog of over 400 product and document name variables
and we manage them using the BookVars and EZVars plugins.


On 4/16/08, Daniel Ng <kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com> wrote:
>
> When product names change, it affects various things from marketing
> collateral, user guides source, guide, help systems, file names, setup
> routines, labels, procedures, screenshots.
>
> What do you do to make it go down a lot smoother?
>
>
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John Posada
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NYMetro STC President and Program Chair

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