RapidGuide™ Feature Tour

RapidGuide v1.0 is XStream’s 100% Programming-free Performance Support and Guidance technology. It enables developers to create and deliver relevant electronic performance support in the form of step-by-step instructional guidance sessions displayed on the user’s live desktop. For each guidance session created, RapidGuide also automatically creates a “Show Me” simulation, which is an interactive or non-interactive “movie” of desktop activity demonstrating the same steps that the user must perform on the live desktop as part of the guidance session. In addition, developers working in RapidGuide may create repositories of Associated Knowledge Documents (AKDs), which are supporting documents or files (of any type or extension) that users may access to obtain additional information or related knowledge.

The following features are included in RapidGuide v1.0:

Easily Accessible Topics & Subtopics All performance support content created with RapidGuide is organized as a searchable list of topics and subtopics that can be easily browsed and accessed by users at runtime. Each topic and subtopic represents a particular desktop/software task for which guidance or help is required. During the editing stage, topics and subtopics may be cut/copied and pasted (to reuse topics/subtopics multiple times) as well as renamed and deleted.
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Desktop Capturing

The developer populates a topic/subtopic with information by recording live steps (mouse clicks and/or keystrokes) from any live desktop or web application. This capturing capability enables the developer to easily create instructional guidance for any software application. Prior to recording, developers may specify various capture settings to determine such things as how much of the desktop area will be captured as well as the content and functionality of the recorded simulation file.