Author-it offers training videos to help you come up to speed quickly. If you want to know when new videos are created, just register at the YouTube Author-it video portal.
The following videos are also included in their respective Knowledge Center topics. They stream from the YouTube site in a separate window or tab.
Getting help: Provides information on how to get help if you get stuck.
Video: Getting Help
General overview Author-it talks: Provides information on how best to use Author-it’s training videos.
Video: Author-it beginnings (talk)
Video: Barriers to content management (talk)
Video: Benefits of component content management
Video: Web-based content management (talk)
Video: Content reuse
Video: Author-it reuse features
Video: Reusing content in multiple books
Video: Author-it structured authoring (talk)
Video: Main roles in Author-it
Setup & configuration : Explains the best way to set up and configure your authoring environment.
Video: A simple guide to installing Author-it
Video: Logging and inserting the license
Video: Managing release states
Video: Assigning release states
Video: Administrator: Managing release states
Video: Setting password and changing rights
Video: Customizing Author-it options
Exploring the Author-it interface : An overview on how to navigate around Author-it.
Video: Exploring the Author-it interface
Video: Exploring the ribbons
Video: Review, view, publishing ribbons
Video: Exploring the security tab
Video: Exploring the settings tab
Video: Using the reports tab
Video: Searching content in Author-it
Library & folders: Explore the library and folder structure in Author-it.
Video: Exploring the library
Video: Exploring the folders pane
Video: Managing the folder structure
Video: Exploring library objects
Book & topic structure: Learn how to structure your content:
Video: Structuring content in books
Video: Pointing book to required object
Video: Placing books inside books
Video: Embedding topics
Video: Editing the topic heading
Video: Creating index and index entry
Video: Creating the glossary
Video: Creating the Table of Figures
Video: Creating the Table of Contents
Video: Creating the title page object
Video: Modifying the related topics
Video: Using related topics
Importing content into Author-it: Find out important information on what types of files you can import and how to import them.
Video: Importing content
Video: Importing content: Overview and properties
Video: Importing process
Video: Understanding the importing rules
Video: Importing FrameMaker files
Video: Importing MSWord files
Creating, editing, & linking: Learn how to manage your content.
Video: Creating your content
Video: Topic editing
Video: Editing controls
Video: Editing history
Video: Hypertext link objects
Video: Linking to URL and emails
Video: Topic to topic links
Objects, styles, & templates: Learn the function of objects in Author-it.
Video: Objects list area
Video: Blueprint of an object
Video: Insert graphic into topic
Video: Embedded and linked graphics
Video: Using include object in textbox
Video: Using auto headings
Video: Setting up a style
Video: Working with style objects
Video: Working with media objects
Video: Creating a new media object
Video: File objects
Video: Managing objects
Video: Templates and media objects
Video: Using file object templates
Video: Using topic object templates
Video: Creating a section starting template
Publishing: Find out how to publish and what formats you can publish to.
Video: Publishing pane
Video: Publishing to different outputs
Video: Publishing profiles
Video: Relationship to Word publishing template
Video: Customizing print output
Video: Modifying the page format
Video: Modifying the Frameset
Video: Customizing HTML output
Video: Modifying the navigation tabs
Video: Accessing the templates folder
Video: Using headers and footers
Video: Publishing using new styles
Video: Publishing books with HL objects
Variables, versions, & variants: Learn how to use variables, versions, and variants in Author-it.
Video: Using variables
Video: Using version control
Video: How variants work
Video: Using variants
Video: Using object variants
Find out more about the Reviews module.
Video: Introducing Author-it Reviews
Video: Setting up permissions for Reviews
Video: Setting up release states for the Reviews workflow
Video: Setting up history settings
Video: Changing the release state of topics to be reviewed
Video: Starting a new Reviews
Video: Configure user settings in Reviews
Video: Reviewing content as a Reviewer
Video: Reviewing content as a coordinator
Video: Adding topics to an ongoing review
Video: Finalizing the review within Contribute
Use Xtend to better reuse your content.
Video: An overview of Xtend
Video: Xtend (talk)