top five content reuse (single sourcing) features in madcap flare
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Top Five Content Reuse Featuresin MadCap Flare
Paul Pehrson@docguy | www.docguy.training
Track 1: Newbie
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About Me• (Ab)using Flare for 10
years• Full time technical writer
at Venafi• Part time Flare consultant
and trainer at DocGuy Training
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Content Reuse? Single-Sourcing?• Single source content, used in multiple places in your
project– Images– Content chunks (snippets)– Variables
• Multi-channel publishing– Online vs. PDF– Different audiences
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How does Flare help me single source?• Variables• Snippets• Conditions• Snippet Conditions• Nested TOCs• Target Conditions
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Variables• Strings of unformatted text• Variable formats
– Plain text– Multi-select– Date/Time
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Snippets• Chunks of formatted content• Small as a word• Large as an entire topic• Ways to use
– Single sourcing– Boilerplate content
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Conditions• Customize content for
– Output Format– Deliverables
• Apply condition to:– Character, word, phrase, sentence (span conditions)– Paragraph, multi-paragraph, div (element conditions)– Topic, folder (Content Explorer)– TOC node– Glossary terms (Flare 12)
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Snippet Conditions• Special type of snippet where condition applies at the
snippet level instead of the project level• Not audience- or deliverable-based• Topic destination-based• Apply condition at topic level (Flare 11 or 12)• Apply condition at snippet-level (Flare 12 only)• Special use of variables in snippets (Flare 12 only)
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Nested TOCs• Insert TOCs in other TOCs to prevent duplication of
content• Especially useful for multiple writers in a project
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Target Conditions and Variables• How to set condition and variable settings in the target
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Best Practices• Tie conditions to a deliverable
– Admin guide vs. Standard Guide (only need 1 condition)– Admin guide vs. Installation Guide vs. Standard guide (maybe need 2 or
3 conditions)• Have strategy for creating and using conditions• Minimize number of condition tag sets, variable sets• Create separate variable and condition sets for snippet-level
conditions and variables• Create boiler-plate snippets for an easy starting point
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Q&A
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