Skribenta is a Component Content Management System (CCMS) used by technical communicators to create, collaborate, version manage, single-source, review, translate and publish technical documentation.

As Skribenta is designed for the requirements of demanding industries, it makes it possible to manage large amounts of documentation with minimum effort and maximum quality.

You need to log in to work in Skribenta. You can select another workspace than the current, if you are a member of several workspaces.

You create content files, configuration files and image files in folders in a workspace.

You can copy, paste, rename, move and delete files and folders in the workspace.

Each file and folder have properties, such as resource ID, version, language, create and modify date etc.

It is possible to upload and download files and folders in Skribenta.

Content, such as the name of the manual, company logo etc., presented on the front and back covers are placed in the front- and endmatter parts of a content file.

A major parts of your content consist of paragraphs. You can add various inline elements, such as bold, italic etc., in a paragraph.

You can organize content in a file in sections, as well as creating lists, tables and equations.

You create various types of content in a file. Besides paragraphs, tables, lists and images, this section contains instructions on inserting images links, wrappers as much more.

To insert an image in a content file, you first upload the image file to Skribenta, then reference it from the content file.

You can create links to content within the file, to another file, to content outside Skribenta as well as links to folders and publications.

This section contains instructions on how to modify and delete XML content in a content and configuration file. Besides modifying, copying, deleting, cutting and pasting content, you can hide, sort, number and transform content.

You can spell and grammar check your content using Language tools or Grammarly.

You can search for files and search within files, as well as replace content and build reports on where a file is used, and what resources a file is using.

In Skribenta, you create publications to publish your content file to an output specified by a stylesheet.

You can publish a single publication or a publication group.

It is possible to change content file or configuration file in a publication, as well as rename, hide and delete a publication or group.

You can check out a checked in file or folder, as well as undoing a check-out. As soon as you start to edit a checked in file, you are asked to check it out.

You can check in a single file, all files in a folder, or the complete workspace, as well as a single publication or all publications in a publication group.

It is possible to change the label, revert, set, copy, and view the content of a file or folder version.

You can compare two versions of a file, folder, workspace or publication.

Imagine managing several manuals for similar products. The content of the manuals is almost the same, except for example product names. Instead of creating several files for each product type, you use the same file in Skribenta, but use variables for the content that is product-specific. It is like merging several product manuals into one (1) file in Skribenta.

In analogy to merging several product manuals into one file in Skribenta, there might be large sections that are valid for each of the product types. You can add conditions to show and hide such content.

You might have several files that cannot be merged into one file, but there are parts of these files that are almost the same. In Skribenta, instead of repeating the same content in several files, place the common content in a topic, and reuse this topic into each of the files.

You can set a new password, set a profile name and photo as well as change to another role (if your user is assigned to multiple roles).

It is possible to adapt the user interface to your liking. You can, for example, show and hide frames and aspects.

After completing an editing session, you log out from Skribenta.

You work with various block and inline XML elements when editing a content or configuration file. They are all described here.

Files, folders, and publications are the resources you work with to create, organize and publish content. You work in different aspects, such as the workspace and publication aspect in Skribenta. When working with translating content, you create translation, improvement and extension projects.

Equations are created by writing TeX syntax. Some common examples are described here. You can spellcheck a number of different languages when using Language tools as the spellchecker. Furthermore, a file in Skribenta has a language flag icon indicating the source language. The available languages to select from depend on how many languages are activated in the Skribenta installation.