Guidance Explorer Authoring Toolkit

patterns & practices Guidance Explorer Authoring Toolkit

The Authoring Toolkit is a stripped down version of Guidance Explorer that does not come with a guidance library and includes just the basic guidance types. The Authoring Toolkit is designed for guidance authors who want to use Guidance Explorer to create and/or distribute their own guidance.
- J.D. Meier, Jason Taylor, Prashant Bansode, Diego Gonzalez

Usage Scenarios

1. You can customize the application title to match your team or organization
2. You can add/remove/edit guidance types
3. You have full access to all of the Guidance Explorer features, except for connection to an online store.

Once you've customized guidance types you can distribute to your team for guidance browsing, authoring or modification.

Downloads

• Download the latest Authoring Toolkit build here: GE Authoring Toolkit - 20080124

ScreenShots

Guidance Explorer

This project contains the Guidance Explorer Authoring Toolkit. If you are interested in the Guidance Explorer project, including screenshots, demos, slides and install packages, you can find it here: http://www.codeplex.com/guidanceexplorer

The entire Guidance Explorer family of projects is:

• Guidance Explorer - The Guidance Explorer smart client allows browsing local or remote libraries from a winforms thick client application. Remote libraries are automatically synchronized with a local cache to allow publish/subscribe scenarios. The Guidance Explorer smart client has full capabilities for creating and editing guidance as well as guidance types.
• Online Guidance Store - The online store provides a mechanism for publishing to, and sharing from, a guidance library on the web. It is a web service interface backed by a SQL 2005 database. When Guidance Explorer is connected to the online store all clients automatically stay in sync with add/remove/modify of guidance in the library.
• Guidance Explorer Web Edition - The Guidance Explorer online application allows a user to browse guidance from the online store. The online application does not allow for the creation or modification of guidance. Unlike the smart client it is a read-only view on guidance.
• Guidance Explorer Authoring Toolkit - The Authoring Toolkit is a stripped down version of Guidance Explorer that does not come with a guidance library and includes just the basic guidance types.