DAVbridge 2.0 
Integrating Adobe FrameMaker documents and books with Xerox DocuShare 
Bringing collaborative document management to technical writers at an affordable price! 
FrameMaker authors don't need to convert all their documents into XML and create EDDs and various 
scripts to accomplish basic FrameMaker capabilities while adding controlled, shared access to resources. 
If you don't need your documents and books to be any more granular and the content isn't being 
dynamically repurposed for other online content, then you don't need to spends weeks to months 
converting everything to XML. DAVbridge works with native FrameMaker files. 
DAVbridge provides a menu with functions for interacting with Xerox DocuShare which provides the 
necessary library functions at a very affordable price for small to large organizations: 
• Check-out / Lock 
• Check-in / Unlock 
• Version control 
• Historical tracking 
• Re-use management 
Permissions for access, authoring, and management by users and/or groups is provided to ensure only 
authorized persons can view, revise, and control specific documents and books. 
New to DAVbridge 2.0 
DAVbridge Drones 
Drones can be implemented on networked PCs or servers to process document assembly jobs while the 
author creates or updates content in other books or chapter files to be processed. Each Drone 
represents a small investment in significantly increasing the productivity of each writer by offloading the 
processing for which they would otherwise be constrained to do little or nothing on their own workstations. 
Some assembly processes affecting many documents take an hour or more to process. 
DAVbridge Manager 
We’ve implemented a central database for the administrator to specify and configure resources and for 
setup of users and drones. It further allows them to view and manage jobs in progress to see who the 
responsible parties are and check the status of each. Views can be filtered and sorted by Change Notice, 
Author, Drone, and Status. This removes the guesswork or manual tracking of your documentation team. 
Documentation and QC Managers will appreciate the ability to easily view data relating to which 
documents are reused among multiple books. DocuShare metadata richly describes the documents and 
provides tracking of reviewers and approvers. Built-in document routing allows circulation to engineers 
and managers to review and reject or approve changes. Reviews are routed as PDFs for ease of access. 
Approved content is saved in final format as PDFs for print on demand and distribution. FrameMaker 
documents are tracked and managed by change control numbers and books are incremented by a 
revision level once approved. History pages are also updated to reflect the changes. 
DAVbridge is primarily written in FrameScript that is based on Adobe's FrameMaker Development Kit, so 
there's tremendous integration with all that FrameMaker provides in the way of reference links, variables, 
templates, and more. The DAVbridge updates your books’ table of contents, indexes, title page, and 
history pages. If necessary, we can customize DAVbridge to meet your specific needs. DAVbridge can 
be used with new and existing FrameScript applications to extend your capabilities and streamline your 
processes. 
Move your authoring environment way beyond tedious manual updates to the next level of efficiency with 
the least amount of effort. For more information, call Criteria First. 
Criteria First, Inc. 
Solutions for managing knowledge in content & print 
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