1. Sign in to Heretto CCMS with the credentials provided to you.

   If you don't have an account, ask your Heretto CCMS Administrator to set one up for you.

   A Heretto CCMS Administrator is a person on your team assigned the Administrator role in Heretto CCMS.

   Note:

   If you enter an incorrect username or password five times in a row, you will be locked out for 30 minutes. After this period, you can attempt to sign in again.

   

   Once signed in, the first screen you see is the Content Library.
2. In the left pane, in the Browse tab, click the Content folder.

   If you don't see the Content folder, ask your Heretto CCMS Administrator where to add a testing folder.

   

3. Click Create a new folder and add a new folder named Testing.

   

4. In the Testing folder, create a personal testing folder.

   Follow this naming convention Surname_Name.

In the previous section, you created your personal testing folder. Now, you'll add your first concept topic to your folder.

1. In your personal testing folder, click Create New and select Concept.

   

2. In the Create new window, in Title field, enter Introduction.

   

   The File name field automatically populates based on what you enter in the Title field.

   You can modify the file name if needed.

   Note:

   The valid characters for file and folder names are:

   • lowercase letters (a-z)

   • uppercase letters (A-Z)

   • numbers (0-9)

   • underscore (_), hyphen (-), and period (.)

   This applies to creating files and folders and renaming files and folders.

3. Click Create & Edit to open the new topic in the Content Editor.
   The Introduction topic opens in the Content Editor.

   

   Tip: You can also click Create to generate the topic and have it show in file listing but not immediately open in the Content Editor. You can double-click on a file in the listing to open it in the Content Editor.
4. Place your cursor in any element placeholder, for example, the short description element, and type some text.

   

5. Insert new elements by clicking the + button or pressing Ctrl+Enter ( Windows®) or Cmd+Enter (Mac).
   Note: Elements are context-sensitive. You may use only elements that appear in your cursor location.

   

6. Perform each of the following actions by using the text editing toolbar:

   

   1. Insert a list.
   2. Insert an image.
   3. Insert a table.
   4. Add a comment.
   Tip: You can use keyboard shortcuts to quickly perform an action. Click the keyboard icon to see a list of available actions.
7. When you're done editing the topic, click the X to exit the Content Editor.
   Heretto CCMS automatically saves your editing changes.

The process for creating a task topic is similar to creating a concept topic, so let's get to it!

1. In the Content Library, click Create New and select Task.

   

2. In the Title field, enter First Procedure

   

3. Click Create & Edit .

   

4. Place your cursor in the command element in the first step element and begin adding an instruction to your procedure.
   Tip: You can press Enter to add a new step and command element.
5. Insert additional elements by clicking the + icon.
   Insert a step example element by clicking the Step Example option in the dropdown.

   

   Note: Note: Elements are context-sensitive. You may use only elements that appear in your cursor location.
   A step example element is added to your topic.
6. Click the Image icon to add an image to your step example element.

   

   The Select File window opens. If you don't have an image in your Content Library yet, you can click the Upload button to add one.

   

7. If your image is too large, resize the image by doing the following:
   1. Click the image.
   2. Click Attributes to open the Attributes tab.
   3. In the Width field, enter 400.

   

   Tip: Clicking an image opens the Select Media window where you can quickly change, align and set the width of an image.

Learn to create a map to organize your topics and prepare a set of content for publishing.

1. In the Content Library, click Create New and select Map.

   

2. In the Title field, enter a map name.

   

3. Click Create & Edit to create the map and open it in the Map Editor pane.

   

   Now that you've created a map, you're going to add the concept and task topics you created to the map.
4. To add the Introduction topic to the map, click Open Library in the lower left.
5. In the content library, locate the introduction.dita the file, then drag and drop it in the Map Editor pane.

   

6. If prompted, to choose how you want to insert the topic, leave topicref selected and click Insert.
7. Repeat steps 5 through 6 to add first_procedure.dita to the map.
   Tip: If you drop a topic on top of another topic in the Map Editor pane, it will add the topic as a child. This is how you can build hierarchy in a map.

Now that you have a simple map built, it's time to publish it to PDF using the Heretto PDF Generator.

1. Open the map in the resource manager by double-clicking the map.

   

   Tip: Right-clicking the map opens up a context menu, where you can choose to open the editor in a new tab by clicking Edit in new tab.
   The map opens in the resource manager.

   

2. Click Publish and then from the options, select one of the default PDF Generator templates.

   

   Note: Publishing options may vary from CCMS instance to instance.
3. Fill in the description as needed, then click Publish to generate a PDF.

   

4. Click the Download to save the PDF to your computer.