Store hotword and glossary definitions in a database for easy retrieval from
ToolBook.
Goodbye Glossary Books
No longer do you need to store your definitions in a special
glossary ToolBook file. Hotword Connection manages your definitions, displays
your popup definitions, and implements your glossary.
Special Tools
Hotword Connection has special author-level tools for creating the database
based on your ToolBook file. ToolBook Translation System and Hotword Connection
then have special “Translator” applications for creating and editing your other
source databases field by field, caption by caption, and definition by
definition. You can even send the Translator applications onto your translation
team!
Hotword Connection Price
| Description |
Price |
| Hotword Connection |
$595
|
| 1 year Hotword Connection technical support (email only) |
$145
|
Educational and multiple-copy discounts are
available.
Comments
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Wow…worked great! All I have to do now is just to expand the fields in some of the text panes and select the field and click on “selection bounds & fonts” under “Write properties” to update the database. This is really great Jeff!!!!! Huge time saver for us!
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Important things to note: ONE ToolBook with all languages - a huge file management benefit. Ease of use for your translators.
If somewhere down the line you find that you need a new language - no problem. You are all set up to very easily add the new language assuming that you can find someone to do the translation. If you have media that also needs to be translated, Platte Canyon has a similar product for media. (They sell a bundled connection package for under $2000.)
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We offer our programs in multiple languages in both a native and web-based format. To do this, we use Platte Canyon's Content Connection which stores the text in a database for native TB use. Then, when we are ready to publish the foreign language version to DHTML, we select the language that we wish to publish to. The fields are populated with the correct language and we do the export.
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I've used TB Connection for a very large project, a math application in Danish that needed to be translated into Norwegian. And it is a very very cool tool indeed. Another side effect besides translating is that you could use it to speed up development by creating "template" applications. So instead of different languages, you could "translate" from one level to another (a Physics app from 5th to 6th grade and so on.) Doing it this way allows your subject matter experts to create new courses based on the same "framework" as one original book. And they don't even need ToolBook to do so. This puts some restrictions on the structure of the new files, so it won't work on all applications. But it is a very cheap/quick way to get stuff done. (BTW I don't work for Platte Canyon:-), I just think it's a cool tool).
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Excellent tool. It's all worked perfectly to date.