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Flare can be installed on both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.

Full integration with MadCap Mimic. Tutorial and demo files created with Mimic can be used in Flare projects and they can share Flare project attributes, such as Variables or Conditional Tags. If you need to customize your documentation for multiple customers, you can create a variable called "Customer Name". This variable can be used in your Flare content and can also be used in your Mimic-built tutorial/demo files. When it is time to publish documentation for "XYZ Corp" you do a simple variable definition once. Both your Flare content and your Mimic content are automatically updated for that customer.

Previously, there were a few project analysis options available from a dropdown in the View ribbon. In this version, most of the features from the MadCap Analyzer program have been integrated into Flare. This dramatically increases the number of analysis features available in Flare. As a result, there is a new Analysis ribbon where you can access these features.

Project Analysis Scans go well beyond just reporting, it finds and helps correct critical issues, makes suggestions for content reuse, helps clean up redundant formatting, styles and much more.

Madcap Flare Project files are entirely in XML so you can send your entire project off to be translated, not just the output. Since all of the project files are XML, you can easily use any existing translation process that you may have in place using any of the industry-leading translation tools, or you can use MadCap Lingo.

Flare also offers a Project Export Feature that allows you to export a project based on a target, condition, file tag and more. This allows you to send only the files that are marked for translation or used in a specific target.

MadCap Lingo is a powerful, easy-to-use translation environment tool (TMS) designed to assist technical writers, documentation specialists and professional translators in the translation and localization process.

A plug-in API lets you integrate Flare with other tools or applications using DLLs that you produce. For details on creating DLLs for integration with Flare, visit our website.

If you need samples or a project to get you started, Flare includes several templates that are specially designed to increase efficiency. Each is designed with a specific output (or multiple outputs). Choose from Knowledge Base, Online, Online and Print, Policies and Procedures, User Guides, Product Fold-outs and many more.

Although you can get help from the MadCap Software extensive Community (forums, blogs, online groups, online help), when you search for help from Flare, you search the help system for the current version of Flare.

Flare allows for controlled language support through HyperSTE and Acrolinx. Simplified Technical English standardizes vocabulary and style to improve consistency, eliminate ambiguity and reduce complexity.

A new report has been added to Flare that lets you see how many words each target produces. Count words by file, by target or by the project.

Allows users to create responsive content.

The benefit of putting your content into such a grid is that it allows it to shift and be responsive to screens of different sizes.

The text analysis tool in Flare lets you evaluate your files for things such as readability, average sentence length, and more.

Flare allows content creators to author content in a modern XHTML editor that renders the content as it would appear in Standard (web), Responsive, or Print modes. The authoring environment automatically changes based on the user’s selection. This gives the author a visual representation of their content in both online and print before publishing their output.

The editor can be customized further by selecting from existing mediums or page layouts to display the content as close to the output’s settings as possible.

Flare’s Layout Resizer allows you to view how your content might look for different screen widths and experiment with these custom sizes. You can quickly see how content will look, create new media queries if needed, and see how the specific style settings affect your content without having to generate output.

The preview for topics, snippets, and template pages now displays in a dynamic window pane. This allows you to keep the preview open while you work and see changes as you make them in the XML Editor.

Flare allows you to collapse whole blocks of content in the editor making it easier to locate and edit a specific part of the content. Any block element or heading group can be collapsed.

Flare allows for easy addition of code snippets with the Code Snippet Editor. The code snippets also include automatic syntax highlighting based on a selected coding language that works for all output types.

Style Inspector lets you see and edit the style details of the source stylesheet while also showing a preview of how these changes affect certain content files in real-time.

You can now apply a style ID to content in the XML Editor.

If you right-click on a structure bar, you will see a sub-menu labeled 'Style ID' that lets you choose an ID from your stylesheet. And similar to the Style Class option, you can also create, edit, and reset style IDs from this sub-menu.

Flare fully supports CSS variables to help improve stylesheet readability and ease of use when making updates.

Flare makes it easy to create and edit lists and include options to work with a paragraph or simple lists, merge all selected lists, and sort lists while editing or at build time.

Flare makes it easy create and edit definition lists from the UI.

Not only does Flare allow you to use other editors to add and edit content, but it also provides an easy-to-use topic and text editor.

• Easily edit and format content
• Split the editor to see the code while editing
• Sync the selections between the code and the editor in real-time
• Auto-complete tags and attributes when typing in the text editor
• Syntax coloring for CSS and XHTML in the text editor

Flare is a powerful single-sourcing tool with one of the strongest print engines in the industry. Author and output extremely advanced printed documents using:

• Absolute positioning with text flow
• PDF image support
• Cross-references
• Running header/footer variables
• Lists of figures
• Lists of tables
• Page and frame breaks
• Auto-numbering
• Widow/orphan control
• Short-line elimination
• Repeat table captions
• Named destinations
• Create first pages on left or right side
• Page layouts
• PDF crop marks
• Registration marks
• CMYK support
• Convert colors to black and white
• Rotated body text
• Hanging punctuation
• And much more

Author content in the Topic Editor more efficiently by only seeing the content that you need. Flare offers the ability to Hide/Show content in the topic editor based on conditional expressions.

Flare supports all common link types from the standard Hyperlink, See Also/Related Topic links, Concept links (A-links), Cross-Reference links, to Relationship Tables. Relationship Tables, originally created to support the DITA environment, have been adapted by MadCap Software to work with Flare projects and outputs.

A graphical interface to access document structure without disturbing the content in the visual editor. These bars are located around the topic and visually show the structure of the XML. Not only do structure bars let you see the XML tag, but you can also perform numerous tasks by using them. If you right-click on a structure bar, a context menu opens. From the menu, you can select from several options to take action on the content associated with that XML tag.

Using Flare's File Tagging feature, topics can be tagged with author, status, or other pieces of meta data as required. New tags can be created by the authoring team as needed.

Flare user interface is available in Chinese along with English, French, German and Japanese.

The Link Viewer window pane lets you see what other files a particular file is linked to and from. You can see incoming links from other files, outgoing links to other files and output targets associated with the selected file. This dynamic pane can be set to change when a new topic is selected or keep the data from the topic that you had selected.

For those who need to control sensitive information (such as personal data like social security numbers) while publishing in a legal environment where the use of a Conditional Tag would not meet the legal requirements, Flare supports Redacted Text. This renders the text unreadable and inaccessible without changing the flow of the document.

Full support for Conditionals throughout a project. Conditional Tags can be used anywhere from a single character in a topic to the entire file itself. Flare also extends this functionality to almost every other aspect of a project; TOC Books and Pages, Index Entries, Relationship Tables, Image Map Areas and more. You can even apply Conditional Tags files that are not XML, like images, PDFs, Microsoft® Word documents, etc.

A very unique option when using conditions is to unbind tag them rather than remove the content. This will remove the tag that the content is in when the conditional argument is met but leave the content.

Snippet Conditions are special condition tags that you apply to content within Snippets at a Topic level rather than a build target level. With Snippet Conditions, you can separate certain Snippet content so that it displays in some topics or template ages but not in others. This allows you to use one Snippet for many purposes, rather than having to create multiple Snippets.

Micro content conditions are special condition tags that you apply to linked micro content responses. This allows you to single source and reuse only the content you want from existing snippets and topics to be used for micro content.

You can override definitions for variables in snippets. This can be done at the topic level, snippet level or micro content level. This gives you more ways to customize your snippets.

This also is beneficial for single-sourcing because you do not need to create multiple versions of the same content or convert content to text.

Flare handles indexing at the character level, providing the tightest integration possible between index terms and the actual content being referenced. Any meta data, such as conditional tags applied to content, are automatically applied to the index markers as well. So if you use a conditional tag to suppress some content when you build an output, the associated index terms tied to that content are automatically suppressed; there is absolutely no extra work to do. Note: This same indexing model is used in FrameMaker® and is one of the reasons that Flare has the tightest FrameMaker® integration in the industry.

You can now control case sensitivity and variants (Stemming of terms).

Glossary Terms can be conditioned.

Glossary Terms can now be Sorted so they display under certain headers and terms.

Variables can be used in Glossary Terms and Definitions.

Flare supports equations written in Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) and LaTeX. After you've created an equation, you can then copy and paste it into Flare's editor

• Use any number of free equations editors or your own editor
• Simply copy and paste the code into Flare’s equation editor.
• Output of equations can be SVG or PNG images

Different languages use different kinds of quotation marks. Flare now replaces quotes based on your project's current language.

Additionally, if you are using a different language in a specific topic or tag (see Selecting a Language), Flare will use the correct smart quote for that language setting.

When creating links and Cross-references, you can point to content using a particular style.

This can be done in the Select Bookmark dialog when you are creating any of the following types of links:

• Cross-references
• Text hyperlinks
• Tables of contents
• Browse sequences

An advanced Character Map UI allows easy location and insertion of symbols and special characters that authors may need. Other features include being able to manage favorites and recently used, search, enter hex codes, use a character with a particular font, and assign a 'Quick Character' that has the F11 key assigned to it.

Flare supports authoring and publishing of right-to-left (RTL) languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew. Flare gives you the flexibility to automatically 'flip' styles to RTL or use a custom RTL style sheet.

Flare has an internal QR Code editor and supports them in all outputs. A QR Code is a type of barcode that can be read by devices such as smartphones. The data encoded in the QR Code can be text, a website URL, an email address, contact information, or SMS (Short Message Service, which is used for sending text messages). QR codes are a way to bridge the gap between a static print document and searchable, more detailed online information at your fingertips.

Flare includes several features to make table authoring easier and less time-consuming; Mediums (changing the look of a table depending on the output), and page and column break support. There are other time-saving features that include text-to-table and table-to-text, Table Merging, Table Block Bars, Reset Local Cell Formatting, Sort Rows, Cell Content Style, repeated table captions, “continued from” in table captions and a wizard to apply a Table Style to all or only selected tables in a project.

Tables - Advanced Sorting - You can sort tables using advanced options, choosing which columns to sort first.

With the MadCap Flare and MadCap Capture combination, MadCap Software can single-source images. When adding text notations/call-outs on screen captures, you can use the same variables used in your Flare projects. This allows for extreme customization of the images and screen captures in your documentation. The same can be said of conditional markers as well. You can conditionalize any part of the image using the same markers from your Flare project. Capture can also assign different profile values to a single image for different uses (like 300 DPI, TIFF format for print, 96 DPI, JPG format for online). Capture images can even use Conditional Tags to control areas of an image.

MadCap Capture is free for customers on the latest release of Flare. With full integration into Flare, users can capture screens, apply call-outs and other objects, single-source images to various output types, keep text and images separate for translation ease, and much more.

Flare supports EPS, PS, SVG and PDF images in the authoring environment and PDF output. The vector graphics are used for other outputs but converted to images that can be supported in those outputs.

The color picker in Flare offers the ability to select colors from a color map, pick a color from anywhere on the screen, use named colors, web colors, and input RGB, HSB and CMYK values. You can even save and see recently used colors in the UI. Flare also includes a PDF Target option to convert colors to Black and White on output.

Import entire style sheets into a project. Also import individual styles from another style sheet.

A relationship table is an element used to link related topics together. It is similar to concept links or related topics links. Although a relationship table is a common feature in DITA, you do not need to be using DITA or know anything about DITA in order to take advantage of relationship tables in Flare.

If you import content from DITA files that already contain relationship tables, those tables are retained in Flare. You can also create new relationship tables in a Flare project and insert relationship proxies into individual topics. In online output, the end result is one or more hyperlinks that let users quickly open related topics. In print-based output, the end result is one or more references to related topics with the appropriate page number(s).

Flare offers language support for numerous dictionaries and hyphenation rules that you can extend using openoffice.org.

Flare also allows you to choose a Global Dictionary for you or your team. This dictionary can live on your PC or a network and be a resource for all of your projects or authors.

Along with common spelling options such as; Ignore repeated words, Ignore Mixed case, etc. Flare offers some unique functionality; Ignore spelling errors in selected styles or conditions.

Easily find functions content files or commands simply by typing in the Quick Launch Bar.

Find what you need without having to search through folders or ribbons.

Find and replace elements windows allows any user to quickly find and make changes to tags, classes, attribute, and more. Together with the Find and replace text window that works on any project file type, users can quickly update their documentation to a new structure or clean up content after an import.

Use system variables to ensure that your TOC entries are always in sync with your topic titles when creating online outputs.

Drag and drop any file or folder to copy into the Flare project. If it is a supported file for import, it can also be dragged into the project and converted to Flare topics and resources.

Import Microsoft^® Word documents with or without Microsoft® Word being installed. When installed, Flare tightly integrates with Microsoft^® Word using modern XML data flow techniques, leveraging the Microsoft^® XML Schema for Office documents. This allows for superior content fidelity during import.

Flare allows you to import Markdown documents into a new or existing project, select the folder to import it to and whether or not to import any resources such as linked images. Flare also supports importing from a selected folder of Markdown documents and link to them and auto-import before generating selected outputs. In addition, you have control over how the files break into different topics, how Markdown styles are mapped to your Flare styles, import equations, code blocks with syntax highlighting, apply tables styles upon import, and many more advanced options.

Excel Spreadsheets can be imported two different ways

As Topics: Flare will convert your content and place worksheets into topics. Title text on a worksheet tab will become a heading in the Flare topic.

As Snippets: Flare will convert your content and place each worksheet into a separate snippet.

The tightest FrameMaker^® integration in the industry. If Flare and FrameMaker^® are installed on the same machine, Flare can open and work from the native FrameMaker^® source files (.fm and .book). This integration gives Flare full access to import FrameMaker^® content including; variables, conditionals, auto-numbering, import of cross-references, equations, master pages, images with their call-outs and more.

Flare has a native DITA import that not only keeps your content but all of the DITA meta-data (including relationship table data) during the import. There is no requirement for installing any external or third-party components, the entire process is handled by a transformation process within Flare.

Import all or specific files (content, project files, etc.) from another Flare Project. Do this import once to seed a new project or “link” to the project to import automatically before generating specific outputs.

With Flare you have flexibility when importing and converting HTML files. Select one file, several files, folders containing files, link the selections to the source files, automatically re-import your selections before compile, and more.

At times users have been stuck with an old legacy CHM file that they need to update but no longer have the project. With Flare you can import the CHM into a new Flare project and save countless hours of recreating the content.

Import from Confluence pages and associated resources into a Flare project.

Authors wanting to convert from Doc-To-Help to Flare can directly import their content into Flare. The import process will import the content as well as maintain other items such as variables, groups, etc. During the import, those items will be converted to the equivalent item in Flare.

MadCap Software offers a free XML conversion tool that will use the published XML output from Author-it® and convert it to a MadCap Flare project while maintaining all project and source files. The utility converts the table of contents of Author-it® books into Flare topics. Embedded topics become Flare snippets, while variables, styles, glossaries, context IDs and index keywords are maintained through the conversion process.

Flare allows you to stitch PDFs together simply by adding them to the project's TOC. This can be handy if you have content that resides in a PDF, a EULA for example, that you already have approved and want to add it to your PDF output. Another use for this feature can be for assembling multi-language PDFs.

MadCap Flare supports the creation of both multiple choice and multiple response questions. These questions can be used as simple test questions or be turned into knowledge check questions which include a submit button that provides immediate feedback for the learner. The content used in the questions can also be single sourced so that similar text or answers can be easily shared between questions or customized to be unique for different outputs.

Existing content can be quickly converted into an eLearning question. This means you can either import content from other files such as a Microsoft® Word document or take existing content from a topic and convert it to questions that can be used in a knowledge check or a graded test.

MadCap Flare supports the creation of interactive eLearning courses and tests. Each topic can be converted to be part of a course and/or a test. Several options are available when creating tests, including the ability to randomize answers, assign a passing score, customize test result pages showing quiz results and limit the number of test attempts.

MadCap Flare makes it easy to streamline your content to be used with a Learning Management System. You can generate SCORM-compliant (SCORM 2004, 1.2) and xAPI-compliant (Tin Can) courses directly from MadCap Flare to upload to any external LMS or LRS. The eLearning packages can also be customized with settings to track based on the learners test result or percentage of the course completed.

A streamlined review workflow is available between this version of Flare and MadCap Central. This process allows you to add non-Flare users—i.e., subject matter experts (SMEs)—to your Central license. Then you can collaborate with SMEs (and other authors) by viewing and working with the same Flare content files (i.e., topics and snippets) in a lightweight editor. The review process includes support for addition for tables, images, lists, definition lists and modification of eLearning questions and code snippets.

Provides direct connectivity with Microsoft^® Team Foundation Server, Perforce, Git and Subversion allowing you to work with Flare projects stored in these source control environments without a third-party plug-in.

Anyone in the company can review, annotate, and/or edit Flare topics using MadCap Contributor. This all happens in the native XML of the Flare topics file so there is no chance of data loss since there is no code conversion. With Flare, every "change" in a topic is marked for review whether it is adding or removing text, tables, images, applying conditional tags, applying inline formatting, etc. Reviewing content with MadCap Contributor is free when using annotations.

With MadCap Contributor, anyone in the company can create content and send it to a Flare author for inclusion in a Flare project. This content is written in XML so there is no data loss since there is no code conversion, both products are "speaking the same language".

Whether you are a single author or on a team, you can choose a location to store your dictionary so it can be used by all of your projects.

Choose how your content is organized, whether everything is one project or separate projects. Upload as many projects as you wish to Central and choose who has access and their level of access to project activities including which users or teams have access to add and remove content and manage builds of each project.

MadCap Central supports full task management including assigning a priority, deadline and also an option to associate the task with a project.

MadCap Central supports creating checklists to keep track of work related to projects on Central. The checklists can be created based on the files in the project, or they can be custom created for any random thing that needs to be completed. Checklists can also be saved as templates to be reused in the future.

MadCap Central offers fully customizable dashboards for each project as well as an overall dashboard for the overall license. Each dashboard can be customized to show any number of widgets including storage used, choice of reports, build activity, bookmarks, sites, tasks and more.

Easily track usage on any hosted website or desktop output using MadCap Central. Data collected include searched phrases from end-users and the number and type of results returned, most visited topic topics, context-sensitive help calls, etc.

Host the content anywhere, not just with MadCap Central, and start gathering data analytics immediately.

You can export an entire MadCap Flare project, or parts of one, to another location. One reason you might want to use this feature is to quickly and easily archive projects, especially if you have an extremely large Flare project and need to archive only parts of it. Another use for this feature is translation. If you only need a portion of a parent project to be translated, you don't want to send the translator all the files, but rather a smaller version of the project containing only the files requiring translation.

Create a new Industry changing output based off of HTML5. You can now break the traditional tripane look and feel and customize your end user's experience.

Use the Top Navigation or Side Navigation skin for your navigation, along with options to fully customize search and menu components to further customize your output’s look and feel.

In addition to HTML5 output with top navigation and side navigation options, MadCap Flare also gives the option to build an output without factory-provided navigation. By choosing "none" for the HTML5 skin, you can build an output with either no navigation at all or a custom-designed navigation, search, and more using easy-to-use component skins.

Produce basic HTML files that are free of JavaScript, MadCap-specific tags and not dependent upon other MadCap-generated files. The output does not include any skins, search, navigation, or other extra features; it is simply your single-sourced content. This is ideal for porting your output to other types of systems; Ticketing, CMS, and others.

Dynamically change the content itself (text and multimedia) based on the format. Text, images and video can be automatically changed based on screen size and format to provide the most appropriate and personalized content to your end-users.

Flare has a powerful favicon editor that allows for unique icons per platform for HTML5 icons.

You can now choose any browser installed on your computer to open and view the output for a target from the project ribbon, target editor or builds window.

Flare makes it easy to choose which content is included when compiling online outputs including the option to include all content, content linked only to the TOC, and also content linked directly and indirectly from the target.

Flare's multilingual functionality has been improved to make it easier to create and build multilingual output. You can now seamlessly create multilingual outputs for each of Flare’s output types.

If you have translated any of your existing Flare projects, simply link the translated projects in the Target file and let Flare will build all the translated projects into a single output.

A Language Selector button has been added to the topic toolbar skin allowing end users to select which language they want to use when viewing the help.

MadCap Pulse is a documentation-centric social collaboration platform that enables you to connect, collaborate and share knowledge with fellow authors, employees and customers. It functions much like many of the social media websites on the Internet, except it revolves specifically around your online output. It also allows you to see how people are using your output, what they are searching for, what topics are being used, browser and OS statistics and many other useful reports.

Create a one or several batch targets to group various targets together so that they can be compiled and published at the same time. Batch targets can even be scheduled to generate and publish through the scheduler.

Maximize your authoring time and schedule Flare to generate and or publish batch targets while you are away from the office or home for the evening.

In addition to being able to easily automate the publishing of your content with command line builds, you can also automate the publish process with support for passing credentials through command line using madbuild.

You can add pre- or post-build events to your target. This lets you run command-line events before or after the target is generated. This allows you to change files before you build or after your build is complete.

Full accessibility for tables in HTML5 output with the option to add captions and summaries along with Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) attributes applied automatically to tables in the output.

For Web and PDF Accessibility, Flare gives you control over what warnings to report for your 508 / Accessibility compliance. You can save this log and double-click each error to open the topic and fix the problem.

Flare supports direct PDF output without having to convert the content to another format. Having this native support allows Flare to offer a large range of advanced print options to easily create truly "press-ready" documents such as crop marks and CMYK support.

Flare makes it easy to created tagged PDF output that meets the requirements for PDF/UA compliance. The PDF/UA standard enhances the readability for people with disabilities. UA stands for Universal Accessibility; this standard will work with assistive technology that assists users through reading and navigation.

Flare offers native Eclipse Help output. Create an Eclipse Help Target with custom settings, batch build capabilities, command line integration, and all of the power and flexibility of other targets in Flare.

This output type is identical to the regular WebHelp output in most ways. However, WebHelp Plus works on a Microsoft^® Web server running Microsoft^® Internet Information Services (IIS), ASP.NET, and Microsoft^® Indexing Service. You and your users can take advantage of some advanced features, including searching for non-XHTML content (PDF files, MS Word Documents, etc.), faster server-side search, and automatic run-time merging. This functionality is also available for HTML5 output.

With a single file and Flare's ability to merge CHM files, you can set up a system that allows to you merge CHMs at run-time.

Not only does Flare create a report for warnings and errors while compiling, but it allows you to save the report to a ‘dynamic log’ file. This file allows you to open the topic and double-click the individual error messages. Flare will also highlight the area that contains the error in the open topic when possible.

Flare also allows the author to turn on and off the types of errors displayed during a compile.

Users can specify where they would like the build logs saved

Using Flare you can save your current topics to various formats via File > Save As... This can be handy for many reasons: reviewing, sharing information, creating smaller deliverables, content reuse. The formats that you can save as are: XHTML, XPS, PDF and any of MadCap's file formats for reviews and contributions.

The BOM is a Unicode character that appears at the start of a text stream. Most authors probably want to disable the BOM. But if you are hosting content on a web server that requires BOM (such as a LINUX machine), you can enable it.

Elasticsearch can be added to any TopNav or SideNav target

Google Search can be added to any TopNav or SideNav target

Ability to publish directly to Salesforce^® Classic and Lightning Knowledge using the MadCap Connect for Salesforce^®. Functionality includes the following:

• Choose the Rich Text Field used for published topic content.
• Choose category mapping for articles at the topic level using their position in the Flare TOC.
• Include summary in Salesforce® articles using topic descriptions.
• Manage all the files and assets published including cleaning up previously published files that are no longer part of a republish.
• Multilingual output publishing that maintains the link between source and translated articles.
• Full control of the URL Name assigned to published articles.
• Update existing Salesforce® articles regardless if they were previously published by Flare if they have matching URL Names.
• Choose to store the publish log in a Shared Asset Library in Salesforce®.

Ability to publish directly to Zendesk Help Center using the MadCap Connect for Zendesk.

• Map to categories, sections and also nested sections using the TOC.
• Apply Zendesk labels to published articles.
• Manage all the files and assets published including cleaning up previously published files that are no longer part of a republish.
• Multilingual output publishing that maintains the link between source and translated articles.
• Generate a Zendesk theme that includes styles and JavaScript for the published content.

Ability to publish directly to ServiceNow^® Knowledge Base using the MadCap Connect for ServiceNow^®. Functionality includes the following:

• Map to categories using the TOC.
• Apply ServicesNow^® tags and keywords to published articles.
• Manage all the files published including cleaning up previously published files that are no longer part of a republish.
• Multilingual output publishing that maintains the link between source and translated articles.

MadCap Central provides all the resources needed to support building, hosting and publishing of your private and public content including build scheduling and site management of your projects and outputs. No additional IT resources nor hardware are necessary to support this workflow and ensure your content is accessible to your consumers.

Outputs built from MadCap Flare or Central can be stored on Central to be viewed or downloaded at any time. This allows authors to compare results between different builds. The builds can be locked to be preserved or deleted at any time.

MadCap Central offers the ability to customize the look of each page used by consumers of your site including user invite, login, profile and 404 pages. One theme can be used for all sites or each site can be configured with different themes.

MadCap Central provides a default domain for all hosted output or linking your output with a custom host mapped domain.

MadCap Central supports customizing the license and site vanity for our hosted outputs allowing you to select a meaningful URL that is easier to recognize for your consumers. This is also useful if you have multiple versions of an output and want to have a different URL for each version.