Over the past two decades, R4i Writer has earned a “best in market” reputation among its users, who consistently commend its robust features and seamless capabilities. These features not only enhance processes, but also ensure advanced data security, time efficiency, cost reduction, and industry compliant content – all of which significantly boosts an organisations operational performance.
R4i has been designed for industry, by industry, with over 20 years of innovation and expertise, giving users the peace of mind, knowing they can uphold the highest documentation standards, while keeping pace with evolving regulations.
Our Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) have collected extensive feedback from R4i Writer users and are eager to share these valuable insights with you.
From Realtime WYSIWYG Previews, drag-and-drop figures, effortless table creation to hotspot data integration, powerful search function and user-friendly help functions, R4i Writer not only meets, but exceeds user expectations delivering an unparalleled user experience, solidifying its position as the premier choice for S1000D authoring to connect, create and validate.
Here’s why R4i customers believe R4i Writer is the most advanced tool for S1000D authoring:
Effortless Table Creation:
- Users rave about the ability to copy content from Word, Excel, and PDF tables and paste it directly into the R4i Writer Table Editor. This feature automatically creates a valid XML CALS table on the fly, saving time and reducing errors.
Ensure consistency with STE Capability:
- R4i’s Simplified Technical English (STE) technology removes the ambiguity of written technical procedures, ensures consistency. in writing style and ensures all technical documentation adheres to everchanging industry standards without the need for additional tools, reducing effort, cost and time with one single provider..
Realtime WYSIWYG Previews:
- XSLT driven Previews offers a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) view, ensuring that content is correctly tagged and formatted. WYSIWYG refers to authoring software that allows content to be viewed when editing, in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as an IETP or webpage.
Comprehensive BREX Support:
- R4i Writer offers out of the box support for multi-layered BREX (Business Rules eXchange), allowing for detailed and compliant documentation..
Hotspot Data references:
- Authors can easily drag and drop hotspot references from vector files, such as CGM,improving output and reducing time with user-friendly features.
Workflow:
- High level workflow and integration between R4i Writer and the rest of the R4i Suite. This includes easy CSDB look-up with drag and drop of CSDB objects into the Data Module, and integrated review process with authors in Writer, managers in CSDB, and SMEs in ReViewer, providing significant process improvements.
Quality Control:
- R4i Writer ensures quality control by preventing a data module to be checked in while it has structural errors, improving data accuracy and integrity. This prevents issues that can arise from checking in faulty modules, a problem seen with other products.
Selectable Stylesheets:
- Authors can select XSLTs (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) created to project specifications, allowing the user to see a WYSIWYG version of how the document will look when published in the IETP (Interactive Electronic Technical Publication), ensuring correctness and uniformity.
Single Vendor Management:
- From a commercial perspective, having only one vendor to manage simplifies procurement and support processes.
Drag and Drop References:
- This feature auto-creates ID numbers and ENTITY declarations for figures, graphics, Data Module and Referenced Technical Publications references, eliminating the need to worry about data entry of lengthy ICN and Data Module numbers.
Visual Tag List:
- The tag list provides schema driven visual cues for allowed tags or attributes, which is especially helpful for those new to S1000D or XML authoring.
Immediate Visual Cues:
- Authors can see what is already being worked on (checked-in, checked-out, published), saving time by preventing duplicate efforts, cutting down on mistakes, and improving clarity.
Working Folder – Assigned File Access:
- Authors have direct access to files assigned to them in specific projects, enhancing security and streamlining the authoring workflow.
Error Visibility:
- Immediate visibility of document errors (BREX, STE, Spelling, Schema) and the inability to check-in documents with schema errors ensures documents remain valid during the authoring and review ensuring integrity of the document scheme.
Powerful Search Function:
- The search function allows authors to find textual and specific part numbers, part nomenclature, or other variables within the content, making it easier to edit content, or remove CIR (Common Information Repository) references.*
Autocreation of Shells:
- R4i Writer can create new data modules with templated tags and text for specific DM types (Crew, Descriptive, Procedure, etc.), simplifying the authoring process.
User-Friendly Help Function:
- The help function is easy to use and includes search capabilities, providing quick assistance when needed.
Join our satisfied users and experience the difference, by upgrading your authoring tools today to R4i.
* Note that a lot of this search capability is in the CSDB, and not directly in Writer.
