PatternStream Training

Overview

This 3-day course will teach Pat­tern­Stream users every­thing they need to know about pub­lish­ing their data­bases to var­i­ous file for­mats for print and dig­i­tal publishing.

Pre­req­ui­sites

Par­tic­i­pants should be expe­ri­enced with the plat­form (Mac, Win­dows, UNIX) that they will be using. Users should be capa­ble of nav­i­gat­ing within the sys­tem, open­ing and clos­ing files, cre­at­ing direc­to­ries, find­ing and open­ing appli­ca­tions, and using the mouse. It is also rec­om­mended that users have some knowl­edge of FrameMaker and data­bases, although this is not necessary.

Basic Top­ics

The top­ics cov­ered on Day One will enable par­tic­i­pants to per­form the fol­low­ing tasks:

• Run the sam­ple Pat­tern­Stream files
• Under­stand data­base publishing
• Make a con­nec­tion to the database(s)
• Cre­ate and use a basic FrameMaker template
• Cre­ate and use a basic Pat­tern­Stream tem­plate (PST file)
• Cre­ate and use variables
• Cre­ate and use basic queries
• Cre­ate and use string templates
• Cre­ate and use patterns
• Cre­ate and use conditions
• Cre­ate and use targets

Advanced Top­ics

The sec­ond and third days of train­ing are designed for Pat­tern­Stream users who have been using the tool and are ready to cre­ate and main­tain tem­plates for com­plex documents.

Pre­req­ui­sites

Par­tic­i­pants will have the expe­ri­ence to com­plete all tasks included under the Basic Course Top­ics. To be fair to other par­tic­i­pants and to keep the course on sched­ule, it is impor­tant that users are well-versed in the mate­r­ial cov­ered on Day One of training.

The top­ics cov­ered on Days Two and Three will enable par­tic­i­pants to per­form the fol­low­ing tasks:

• Cre­ate and use a com­plex FrameMaker template
• Cre­ate and use a com­plex Pat­tern­Stream tem­plate (PST file)
• Cre­ate and use com­plex queries
• Cre­ate and use com­plex patterns
• Cre­ate and use com­plex string templates
• Cre­ate and use com­plex conditions
• Cre­ate and use com­plex targets
• Cre­ate and use transforms
• Cre­ate and use para­me­ter lists
• Cre­ate and use arrays
• Cre­ate and use calls
• Use cus­tom DLLs or FrameScripts
• Pub­lish using graph­ics, com­plex lay­outs, com­plex para­graphs and table formats

NOTE: The Pat­tern­Stream course, while typ­i­cally 3 days in length, may be extended to 5 days in order to cover more in-depth mate­r­ial for users who may need more time to mas­ter the basics or who just want more sup­port in their ini­tial days as Pat­tern­Stream developers.