ScreenSteps Desktop 2.9 and Workgroup Documentation
Topics
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Getting Started 9
- New Features in ScreenSteps 2.9
- Learn About The Blue Mango Learning Systems Documentation Methodology
- Creating a Lesson
- Key ScreenSteps Concepts
- Display Overview
- How ScreenSteps Deals With Large Images
- Registering ScreenSteps With a Serial Number
- Registering ScreenSteps With a ScreenSteps Live Account
- Upgrading from ScreenSteps 1 to ScreenSteps 2 Pro or Standard
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Capturing Images 11
- Capturing Images Using the Global Key Command
- Using the Capture Tool
- Using the Capture Tool Delay
- Using the Capture Palette
- How to Update Images in a Lesson
- Using the Clipboard Recorder
- Importing Images Into a Step
- How to Capture a Menu
- Using SnagIt with ScreenSteps
- Dragging and Dropping Images Onto Lessons
- Embedding Video in a Step
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Editing Steps 14
- Formatting Text
- Insert a Link to a Web Page Into Your Lesson
- Insert a Link to Another Lesson in the Same Manual
- Removing a link from your text
- Annotating Images
- Using the Blur Tool
- Cropping Images
- Image Tools
- How do I Change the Layering of Annotations?
- How do I Check Spelling?
- How do I Search for Text in a Lesson?
- What is Lesson Status?
- Setting the Draft Status of a Lesson
- Reordering Steps in a Lesson
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Exporting and Templates 12
- Exporting Lessons
- Getting Started With a ScreenSteps Live Account
- Configure ScreenSteps to Upload Lessons to Your Blog
- Uploading a Lesson to a Blog/Wiki
- Configuring a Clarify-it.com account
- Assigning a File Name to use for a Lesson or Manual
- Selecting Word, PDF and HTML Templates for Lessons
- Changing/Setting the Default Template
- Overriding the Default Template for a Lesson
- How Can I See Which Web Servers I've Uploaded a Lesson To?
- Breaking a Link Between a Lesson and a Web Server
- How to insert a ScreenSteps Lesson into a forum post or other web application
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Exporting to the System Clipboard 6
- Exporting a Lesson to the Clipboard as HTML
- Exporting a Lesson to the Clipboard as PDF
- How do I Specify Which Template Is Used When Exporting To Clipboard?
- How do I paste the path to the PDF file into a file selection dialog on OS X?
- How do I paste the path to the PDF file into a file selection dialog on Windows?
- Why don't images show up in emails I send that I pasted a lesson into?
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Searching/Filtering Lessons 1
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Manuals 8
- How to Create a Manual and Stub Out Lessons
- Adding Existing Lessons To Manuals Using the Lesson Palette
- What are Draft Chapters?
- How do I reorder Chapters?
- Exporting a Manual to Word, PDF or HTML (Pro only)
- Choosing a Template for a Manual (Pro only)
- How to see which Manuals a Lesson belongs to
- How to drag multiple Lessons into a Manual
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Additional Topics 12
- Editing Images in an External Editor
- How to copy an image to the clipboard
- Importing a Plain Text File Into a Lesson
- Syncing Image Filenames to Step Titles
- Using Split Step
- How to Split a Lesson in Two (Create Two Smaller Lessons Out of One Large Lesson)
- Duplicating Lessons and Manuals
- Uploading HTML Lessons to Your Mobile Me or .Mac Site
- Sharing ScreenSteps Lessons with Other Users of ScreenSteps
- How do I Resize an Image Without Resizing Annotations?
- Where Is The ScreenSteps Preference File Stored?
- How to have ScreenSteps automatically check for updates
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Working with ScreenSteps Live 18
- How do I Upload a Manual to ScreenSteps Live from ScreenSteps Desktop?
- How do I Update My Local Manual With Changes From the Version on my ScreenSteps Live Account?
- Comparing Manuals Between ScreenSteps Desktop and ScreenSteps
- How do I Download a Manual from ScreenSteps Live to my ScreenSteps Desktop Library?
- How do I Update a Lesson on ScreenSteps Desktop From ScreenSteps Live?
- How do I Replace a Lesson on ScreenSteps Live?
- How do I Upload a Lesson Directly to a Manual?
- How do I Download a Lesson to My ScreenSteps Library From ScreenSteps Live?
- Confirming that a manual is linked to ScreenSteps Live
- Updating a manual on ScreenSteps Live with changes from ScreenSteps Desktop
- How to download changes to a single chapter from ScreenSteps Live
- Uploading a Single Chapter to ScreenSteps Live From ScreenSteps Desktop
- How do I send a link to an article?
- Breaking a Link Between Your Desktop Manual and the One on ScreenSteps Live
- What Happens if Multiple People Edit the Same Lesson?
- Upgrading to 2.8.2 or later - Uploading Unique Lessons Identifiers to ScreenSteps Live
- Upgrading to 2.8.2 or later - Downloading Unique Lesson Identifiers From ScreenSteps Live to Other Computers
- Errors uploading a lesson or manual
Last Updated
Sep 07, 2016
Other Resources
ScreenSteps Desktop & Workgroup
- ScreenSteps 2.9
- ScreenSteps Workgroup
- Customizing HTML Templates
- ScreenSteps: Tips & Tricks
- Creating Word Templates
- Publishing to Blogs & Wikis
FAQs
- FAQs
Jochen
Is it possible to link from text in one lesson to another (in PDF as well?)?
Trevor DeVore
Not at this time.
Marcia
Do I understand this correctly, that you cannot link text in one lesson to the text in a different lesson in the same manual ?
Blue Mango
Marcia-
That is correct. If you want to link to another lesson in your manual you have to manually insert that url as is described above. We know it's a pain. But because a ScreenSteps lesson can exist in so many different places (PDF, manual, bucket, blog post, etc.) it isn't an easy problem to solve. We are working on it though.
Mark
How strange, I came here to ask the exact same question as Marcia asked yesterday. A lack of ability to cross-reference between lessons is a bit of a buzzkill for me.
Some parts of our application are complex and a customer may not know the exact term that they are searching for (especially because some terms are used in different ways by different groups of users). So when a user is looking for a particular term, we really need to be able to give them hints about what other terms they may be looking for instead - and when a lesson includes references to other aspects of the application it's really important for us to be able to send the user off to the right places. For me it seems a really obvious part of the functionality discovery process, and a surprising omission given the importance of short and sweet lessons.
I don't think this is a deal breaker but it's going to make our documentation a bit less useful than it might have been. I hope we get to see cross-referencing soon!
Marcia
Now I am completely confused.
Blue Mango.....
Can I link one lesson to another lesson in the same manual
- Yes or No ?
Blue Mango
Marcia-
Yes you can. Just not as easily as we would like. You can link to another lesson in your manual just like you can link to any page on the internet. That is what the lesson above describes, linking to any internet page.
Ideally there would be a tool in ScreenSteps that would let you do this more easily for lessons in a manual. Currently there isn't. So, for right now, if you wanted to link some text in Lesson A to Lesson B that is also in your manual you would need to:
1. Visit the web page for Lesson B in your browsers.
2. Copy the url for that lesson.
3. Select the text in Lesson A that you want to point to Lesson B.
4. Click the "Add URL" button.
5. Paste in the link that you copied from your browser.
That is basically what the instructions above are showing.
Blue Mango
UPDATE - You can now link between lessons in the latest 2.8 beta. See more here:
Link to Lessons in Your Manual