Example Integrations
Support CRM and Knowledge Management Platforms
Knowledge Article Creation Workflow (KCS - Knowledge Centered Service)
Use case: Authoring and Automated Check
Technology: Sidebar and Platform API
Tools: Salesforce, ServiceNow, RightAnswers
Ixiasoft DITA CMS
Use case: Authoring and Automated Check
Technology: Sidebar and Platform API
Tools: Ixiasoft, Oxygen
Adobe FrameMaker and XML Documentation Add-on for AEM
Use case: Authoring
Technology: Sidebar
Tools: AEM, FrameMaker
SDL Tridion DX - Docs and Sites
Partner: SDL
Use Case: Automated Check
Technology: Platform API
Tools: Oxygen, XMetaL, Arbortext Editor
SDL Tridion Sites
Partner: SDL
Use Case: Authoring integration
Technology: Acrolinx Sidebar
Documentation: open or download the PDF
GitHub and Visual Studio Code
Acrolinx for Visual Studio Code
Use case: Authoring integration
Technology: Sidebar
Documentation: User guide
Acrolinx for GitHub
Use Case: Automated Check
Technology: Classic API
Documentation: Admin guide
Content contributors need to get feedback from Acrolinx when they submit changes as pull requests. Writers use the Scorecard to improve their content. Approvers use the Scorecard to decide whether to accept the pull requests.
1. Writer pulls content from GitHub and checks content with Acrolinx for Visual Studio Code.
2. Acrolinx gives writer guidance in Sidebar.
(optional) 3. Writer pushes content to GitHub.
(optional) 4. Writer forks content and submits changes as a pull request.
5, 6, 7, 8. Automated events between GitHub, Acrolinx GitHub Webhook, and Acrolinx Platform. Acrolinx gets content, analyzes it, and posts a comment to GitHub with link to Scorecard.
9 and 10. Writer reads comment and uses Acrolinx Scorecard to review feedback.
(Iterate) back to step 1 to submit new changes.
Jenkins - Content Creation Workflow
Acrolinx for CI (Continuous Integration) using Jenkins
Use case: Automated Check
Technology: Command Line Interface (CLI)
Tools: Jira, Visual Studio Code, Oxygen XML Editor, GitHub, Subversion, Git, Jenkins, Gradle, npm, Grunt
Documentation: Integrate Acrolinx into Jenkins
If you would like to use Acrolinx as part of continuous integration/inspection, you can automate the Command Line Interface as a Jenkins build job.
Create a Jenkins job to automate Acrolinx checking during the build:
1. A developer commits a change, which initiates the build job on Jenkins.
2. Acrolinx CLI extracts and sends content to Core Platform. Acrolinx analyzes the content and returns the Scorecards.
3 and 4. The Scorecards, related metrics, and issues found are processed and displayed in the Jenkins Dashboard.
Users can view the results in the Dashboard, open the Content Analysis Dashboard to get an overview, and drill down into the individual Scorecards for each document.
Scroll Acrolinx Connector (Atlassian Confluence)
Partner: K15t Software
Technology: Acrolinx Sidebar and Java SDK
Use cases: Authoring and Automated Check
Documentation: Installation guide
You can download a trial version and buy the connector directly from the Atlassian Marketplace.
Astoria CMS - Content Creation Workflow
Partner: Astoria
Technology: Acrolinx Java SDK
Use Case: Automated Check
Description: Automated checking of content. Configure Acrolinx to check as part of the CMS workflow.
SMASHDOCs - Content Collaboration
Partner: SMASHDOCs
Use Case: Authoring
Technology: Acrolinx Sidebar
Description: Collaborative, structured editing with flexible publishing options like XML, MS Word, InDesign
See a demo video.