Get started with GlobalLink Vasont Inspire

Inspire gives you a central place to store your content and the tools to work with contributors and subject matter experts to create, edit, translate, and publish your content. Inspire is a Component Content Management System (CCMS) that lets you chunk structured content into a file called a component. With Inspire's user-friendly interface you can get your content development and publishing cycles completed even if you aren't familiar with the dynamics of XML. You and your collaborators can access this web-based XML publishing system anywhere, anytime to keep your content live and current.

Working with Inspire

  1. Check your Dashboard - this is the first thing you'll see when you log in to Inspire.
    • Use this screen to quickly pick up where you left off and open a recent component, or project.
    • You can also see what's assigned to you and if you have any reviews to complete.
  2. If you have Administrator permissions, in addition to performing any tasks related to developing content, you can also add user accounts that you can select as participants and secure the accounts with permissions.
    • Advanced tasks can also be done by administrators, such as configuring attributes, elements, and link types.
    • These are the building blocks you can use to create relationships between components and add export configurations.
    How do you know what permissions you have?
    • If you're an Administrator, you'll see the Administration_TopMenuOpt Administration and Security_TopMenuOpt Security menus at the top of your screen.
    • If you don't see the Security menu at the top of the screen, then you need to contact one of your administrators to get a list of permissions and roles assigned to your account.
    • If you can create a project, you can select yourself as a participant.

    • A Details pane lists the roles you belong to, which grant you access to Inspire features.
    • If you only see the Reviews_TopMenuOpt Reviews menu at the top of the screen, you can only participate in a review that's been assigned to you. You won't be able to add components, projects, or work with publishing or translation.

  3. Add and edit components - all your content lives in self-contained files called components. Inspire tracks specific and relevant metadata about each component to help you link and reuse content intelligently.
    • You can manage the location of components and the relationships and associations with other components. You'll also be able to quickly know the status of components— such as when a component is being edited it is locked by a user.
    • You can monitor the progress of component work in assignments, and check a workflow status and translation.
    • To see what a component looked like at a specific moment in time, you can also view snapshots of components for audit trails.
    • When you edit a component, you have access to an Oxygen-based editor with a rich set of features. For more information, read about Oxygen integration.
  4. Collect content into projects and assign work to collaborators - You can organize related components, participants, and assignments in a project to complete a specific goal.
    • By default, anyone who can create and edit components can create a project, but your administrator can change these settings.

  5. Assign a user to review content - you don't have to add a component to a project to get it reviewed. You can select a single component or a group of components not in a project to manage the document review cycle.
    • You can customize the number of reviewers and their specific tasks, and set a due date.
    • By default, anyone who can create and edit components can create a review, but your administrator can change these settings.

  6. Send content to a translation vendor - easily create copies of components to export and send to a vendor. You can also send copies to integrated apps like GlobalLink Enterprise (formerly known as Project Director), or assign the work directly within Inspire.
    You can publish content in many ways within Inspire:
    • Select one or more components from a project or the Components tab
    • Filter content to publish components that have specific profiling attributes you've assigned
    • Select a snapshot (version) of a component
    • Select a publishing configuration that defines content sources and outputs

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