New Editing Interface Functionality

Additional functionality has been integrated into the new Knowledge Center; let’s take a look:

Knowledge Center Workflow

Content Workflow will be available within the properties of a piece of content. The existing options specify the Content Language, the Author, Translation Languages and Feedback. Within the Workflow Dashboard, users are presented with the content items that need to be reviewed; filtering functionality is also available on open workflow items.

Completing workflow is clean and simple in the new version; the editor simply checks the box to specify the review is complete.

Knowledge Center Content Versioning

Knowledge Center stores all content versions throughout workflow allowing roll-back/forward and comparison functionality.

Knowledge Center Automated Content Translation

Various improvements have also been made to the SDL TMS (Translation Management System) integration system, such as:

• Apt synchronization of the status between TMS and Knowledge Center
• Integrated job cancellation of TMS or KC.  In the new version the user will cancel the job in TMS which will lead to cancelling the job in Knowledge centre, (or vice versa), leading to the resetting the status to ‘To be translated” within KC.
• XML / DITA content is validated before it is sent back to Knowledge Center.

Tool and technology updates

The next version of SDL Knowledge Center will support the following tools and technologies:

• XMetal 11
• oXygen 18
• Arbourtext 7.0.4 +
• DITA 1.3
• Latest versions of Windows Server, Windows 10, MS SQL Server and the Edge Browser
• Interface and Content Support for Chinese