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#ArbortextMonsterGarage P. Nagai: 1000s of customers, 24x7x365, 100% availablility, 100s of apps, svcs, products, networks, 6 mo update cyc

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: 2 docs >1kp pgs, 5 pub versions, shared, profiled content

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: 10s of 1ks of end users, wide variety o'roles, diverse responsibilities, want their stuff when they want it

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: #ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: custom table of contents to see quick view of impacts to specific users

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: Provides a review to the authors to see if what they did was what was intended

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: authors can quickly scan and see the impact of what they have to do/what their customers need updates to

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: Lots of custom "reports" to help authors understand what they need to do and amt of work/role & changes

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: authors used to have to track what they needed to change in a "master document" by hand

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: Now, authoring in XML, w/metadata, and custom TOC/reports = fewer errors, less time, happy authors

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: Once you have happy XML authors, they get ideas about more stuff you can do to make their lives easier

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: Let's take a look at what we're doing with XUI to simplify the authoring experience

#ArbortextMonsterGarage & P. Nagai -- wow, look at that cool dialog that adds metadata, tracks content on a large scale

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: the author no longer has to navigate, see it against the sea of other elements, they can use the XUI

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: acts as a training tool for new users; protect them from really having to use/understand XML at lower level

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: I want to count the number of datapoints that users are now able to manage/author from inside the dialog

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: replaced some of the OOTB dialogs to reduce duplicate data entry

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: doing a lot with generated text

#ArbortextMonsterGarage P.Nagai: creating cool summary reports/tables of "content" that roll up info contained in doc for author review