With today’s varied content delivery requirements, consider using a solution that can support you as your publishing needs change and evolve. Whether your content reuse needs are at the section, chapter, topic, subsection, paragraph, phrase or even character level, it’s important they are created once to minimize duplicate efforts and reduce errors. Do you have a common procedure that applies to six different products? Easy, just create a “snippet”-a reusable content fragment-and add it by reference anywhere you need it. Do you have a boilerplate safety chapter that needs to be included in the front of every manual? No problem. MadCap Flare takes this concept to an extreme level. Content should only exist once and should be used by reference, as necessary. One of the core and fundamental principles of content management is that content should never be duplicated. When searching for the right authoring and management system for your team, here are four things you should take into consideration: A system where content creators themselves could manage every step of the process without the need for dedicated programmers or other specialized technical assets. The industry needed a content management solution that was simpler, easier to use, and affordable. Too many still carry the scars from 18-month rollouts and not having access to the resources necessary to get the exact look and feel that marketing is demanding. While becoming more and more widespread, for some, the mere mention of content management can bring on a look of fear or panic. From “cut & paste” to the word processor revolution, desktop publishing, and the advent of content management. See Touring the MadCap Help Viewer.The worlds of technical communication, technical writing, and instructional design have significantly evolved over the years.

Tour the Workspace Become familiar with the Help Viewer's user interface.

The following will help you get started quickly with the Help Viewer:

This includes the ability to produce Dynamic Help.įlare's online Help uses DotNet Help.

Lets you create embedded context-sensitive Help in a.

Lets you include features (such as browse sequences and search) not available with HTML Help.

Is not burdened by the security warnings and limitations that are often encountered with HTML Help and WebHelp.

See Selecting a Language for the Help Viewer Interface. You can select English, French, German, or Japanese.

Lets you select between multiple languages for the interface.

It will blend easily into a modern Vista environment.

Has a customizable interface that is much more modern looking than the aging HTML Help.

It was designed to include the best attributes of Microsoft HTML Help and WebHelp, while filling the holes left behind by those formats. For more information see the following:ĭotNet Help is a Help output format developed by MadCap Software. Not only can you use MadCap Help Viewer to see the online documentation for a Flare project, but you can also enter comments and ratings for topics (if the author has enabled MadCap's Feedback service). The Help Viewer can also display movies that are created in MadCap Mimic. This viewer is used to display online DotNet Help targets that are generated in MadCap Flare.

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