Output-Formats Publishing Guide - Author-it Cloud

Product: Author-it Cloud
Document Title: Output-Formats Publishing Guide

Author-it output formats
Magellan Publishing
About the Magellan output format
The Magellan website
The Magellan landing page
The Magellan landing page background image and logo
The Magellan landing page titles and search box
The Magellan landing page rotator
The Magellan landing page promoted content tiles
The Magellan content page
The Magellan website toolbar
Magellan website hamburger menu
Magellan website configuration popup
Magellan website help
Magellan website language selector
The Magellan website footer
The publishing process for a Magellan site
Publish a Magellan site
Define a new Magellan landing page
Add rotator tiles to a Magellan landing page
Add content tiles to a Magellan landing page
Add a footer to a Magellan landing page
Add content to a Magellan site
Link to or add external resources to a Magellan site
Glossaries and indexes for Magellan websites
Magellan themes
Magellan CSS files
Magellan site structure
Magellan CSS file structure
Magellan themeconfig file
Configure a Magellan site
The Magellan engine
Create or update a Magellan theme
Change Magellan site images
Change the Magellan loading rotator logo
Change the Magellan favicon
Change the user interface text of a Magellan website
Customize the Magellan site configuration
About using the themeconfig file
Site configuration elements explained
Customize the appearance of Magellan
Magellan CSS customization
Identify a CSS element on a Magellan website
Change the font families on a Magellan website
Change the color of the Magellan toolbar icons
Hide Magellan toolbar icons
Change the appearance of the Magellan footer link pages
Format Magellan content according to topic templates
CSS for Magellan tables
Add alternate shaded rows to Magellan tables
Format Magellan tables used for layout only
Manage wide table viewing Magellan on a small screen
Highlight the TOC selection in Magellan
Change the appearance of Magellan popup links
Magellan place images according to file object templates
Add captions to Magellan images
Magellan search
Lunr search for Magellan
Elasticsearch for Magellan
Configure Elasticsearch for Magellan
Configure Elasticsearch parameters
Localize a Magellan site
Configure a site for different languages
Setting the filter
Defaults - basic website
Locales - basic website
Publications
Locales - Add another language
Check language resource files
Add language content
Add language selector entries and publications
Support for Right to Left (RtL) languages
Add keywords to a topic for Magellan outputs
Advanced Magellan configuration
Publish to a lower version of Magellan
Magellan files to configure
Set list limits for recently updated pages
Working with videos
Insert a video or audio file
Use a youtube video
Use a Vimeo video
Manage videos using CSS
Add a 404 Page Not Found Error page
Remove widgets
Set number of submenus on Navigation menu
Troubleshooting
The Magellan website is empty when published
Magellan update history
Magellan files updated in Author-it 2025.R2
Magellan files updated in Author-it 2025.R1
HTML changes to Magellan in 2023.R4.2
Legacy Word Publishing
About the Legacy Word output format
Word templates and Word publishing
Set up Word publishing
Create a publishing profile for Word Publishing
Publish a Word document
Map an Author-it style to a Word style
Configure the page layout and settings of Word outputs
Add title pages to Word outputs
Add headers and footers to Word outputs
Document properties for Word outputs
Word after-publishing activities
Include graphics in an electronic document
Convert linked graphics to embedded graphics in Word
Pagination & unwanted page breaks
New Word Publishing
About the New Word output format
About the Word-to-PDF output format
Differences between New Word and Legacy Word
File format published by New Word
New Word pagination controls
How images are published by New Word
Word Macros in New Word
New Word style mapping
Publishing to New Word with no Word template
New Word unsupported and upcoming features
New Word features released in 2025.R3
Word templates and Word publishing
Set up New Word publishing
Create a publishing profile for Word Publishing
Set up Word-to-PDF publishing
Publish a Word document
Map an Author-it style to a Word style
Configure the page layout and settings of Word outputs
Add title pages to Word outputs
Add headers and footers to Word outputs
Document properties for Word outputs
Troubleshooting
New Word outputs have inaccurate table of contents entries
New Word outputs have unexpected styles or formatting
PDF ProCSS Publishing
PDF documents via PDF ProCSS
The process
PDF ProCSS CSS templates
Apply custom formatting to PDF ProCSS outputs
Configure the page layout and settings of PDF ProCSS outputs
Headers and Footers in PDF ProCSS outputs
Contents of a PDF ProCSS Header topic
Contents of a PDF ProCSS Footer topic
Building blocks for PDF ProCSS headers and footers
Add headers and footers to PDF ProCSS outputs
Insert content into a PDF ProCSS footer
Modify the Media Objects
Fillable PDF forms using AcroForms with PDF ProCSS
Set up AcroForms for PDF ProCSS outputs
Default paragraph styles for AcroForm fields
Publish a fillable PDF form
Changes to Resolved XML and HTML output between V6.4.2 and 6.4.3
Honeycomb Publishing
About the Honeycomb output format
Main concepts to understand in Honeycomb
Example Honeycomb courses
Honeycomb browser support
Publish a Honeycomb course
Honeycomb course slides
Static Honeycomb slides
Interactive Honeycomb slides
Accordion slides in Honeycomb
Buttons with images slides in Honeycomb
Clickable buttons slides in Honeycomb
Carousel slides in Honeycomb
Conversation slides in Honeycomb
Flip book slides in Honeycomb
Flip Card slides in Honeycomb
Snippet slides in Honeycomb
Timeline slides in Honeycomb
Transition slides in Honeycomb
Knowledge check Honeycomb slides
Multiple choice knowledge checks in Honeycomb
Drag and drop one to one knowledge checks in Honeycomb
Drag and drop one to one immediate feedback knowledge checks in Honeycomb
Drag and drop categorization knowledge checks in Honeycomb
Drag and drop sequence knowledge checks in Honeycomb
Adding feedback
Feedback for the whole question
Feedback for each answer
Assessment Honeycomb slides
Standard assessments in Honeycomb
Spinner assessments in Honeycomb
Assessment and group metadata in Honeycomb
Assessment completion
Styles
Styles for feedback in Honeycomb Knowledge checks
WBT styles
Hidden Honeycomb styles
Adding audio, video, and animation to Honeycomb
Inserting audio, video, or animation
Creating an HTML file
Examples of HTML files for Video, Audio, and Animation
Creating an HTML file object
Adding a transcript or closed captions to Honeycomb courses
Link to or add external resources to a Honeycomb course
Creating a Honeycomb glossary
Creating a glossary
The publishing process for a Honeycomb course
Files and folders in a published Honeycomb course
Substituting media objects
Change Honeycomb content after publishing
Viewing the WBT output
Navigating the WBT output
Using the WBT training window
Main menu
Course menu
Resource links
Help
Course and slide title
Course exit
Content area
Progress indicators
Slide counter
Audio controls
Slide navigation controls
Playing videos
Honeycomb templates
Honeycomb CSS files
Honeycomb configuration xml
Customize Honeycomb
Customize the appearance of Honeycomb
Customize the Honeycomb Logo
Add a style to Honeycomb
Add a font to Honeycomb
Edit or remove the Honeycomb main menu
Customize Honeycomb help and instructional text
Localize Honeycomb help and instructional text
Add your own help text to Honeycomb
Customize tables in Honeycomb
Metadata for Honeycomb publishing
Media objects for Honeycomb
Honeycomb Variables
Adding keywords to scorm output
Tin Can support
Troubleshooting
Possible causes for publishing failing
Possible causes for interactive slides not working
Output does not look correct
Honeycomb ignores some Author-it settings
How do I link to a PDF inside a Honeycomb course?
Carousel not loading
Course Completion
Course Completion Values for LMS
Slide Completion
Knowledge Check Completion
Assessment Completion
Modifying Course Completion Criteria
XML & RXML Publishing
About the XML output format
About the Resolved XML output format
HTML Publishing
Publish to HTML
Site map file for search engines
Update the base URL
Include class & ID attributes in tags for HTML & XHTML files
Change HTML template encoding
HTML table classes
Add a customized HTML template
Customized HTML frameset
Add a full text search engine to your published HTML
Set up the DHTML user guide template
TOC objects in HTML-based outputs
Bullet styles & images in HTML outputs
Apply specific HTML Tags to paragraph styles
Using an image as a bullet in HTML output formats
DITA Publishing
About DITA
About the DITA XML output format
Publish a DITA XML file
DITA publishing configuration
Set up DITA Author-it 5.0 to 5.2
DITA topic type variable Author-it 5.0 to 5.2
Import the DITA XML file (Author-it 5.0 to 5.2)
DITA topic templates
DITA concept template
DITA task template
DITA reference template
DITA topic template
Chrysalis Publishing
About the Chrysalis output format
Object templates for Chrysalis
Book templates
Topic templates
Styles
Media objects
Publishing in Chrysalis
Variables
Overview of supported slide types
Supported content types for slide types
Building the Chrysalis slides
General structure of a slide type
Focus on reuse
Standard slides
General presentation settings
Themes
Setting a theme
Slide backgrounds images
Slide transitions times
Slide transition effects
Presentation metadata slides
Titles
Sections
Example section slide
Grids
Grid types
Creating grid slides with rows/columns
Creating grid slides with thirds of the width
Grid layouts and topic order
Grids with rollover
Carousels
Creating carousel slides
Allowable content
Timelines
Using timeline slides
Allowable content
Accordions
Using accordion slides
Allowable content
Adding link buttons
Link behaviour
Adding presenter notes
Image size requirements
Optimal dimensions for grid elements
Inserting audio, video, or animation
Creating the HTML file
Creating an HTML file object
Audio, video and animation operation
How to add a transcript for audio files
Using external resource files
Adding external resource files
Linked resource files usage
How to publish to the Chrysalis output
Navigating the Chrysalis output
Control panel
Stand alone packages
Grid operation
General content layout
Playing videos
Sharing on social media sites
Troubleshooting log file
Troubleshooting
About the Microsoft HTML Help output format

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