Authoring and Publishing for Print, Online, Desktop and Mobile Documentation

Conditions Aren’t Just For Topics Anymore

Learn how conditions can be applied to just about anything, including topics, content, TOC items and indexes.

One Link for Both Online and Print Outputs

By using style mediums, you can set up a cross-reference style to automatically display as a hyperlink in online documentation and a cross-reference in print documents.

SharePoint Integration and Team Authoring in Flare 7

Access your SharePoint files and folders quickly and easily in Flare 7.

Team Authoring and External Resources in Flare 7

In addition to having direct SharePoint and Subversion integration, another way Flare 7 supports team collaboration is that you can create mappings to external resources.

Touring the Flare Workspace

1. The Basics
2. Elements in Accordions
3. Menus and Toolbars
4. Editors

5. Misc Panes and Dialogs
6. Moving/Resizing Elements
7. Layouts
8.  

6 Steps to Online Help

1. Start a New Project
2. Add "Stuff" to the Project
3. Make It Look Good
4.  

4. Develop Outputs
5. Build the Output
6. Distribute the Output
7.  

How To Create Print Output

1. Create Topics
2. Styles
3. Cross References
4. Auto-numbers
5. Page Layouts

6. Outline TOCs
7. Text Boxes
8. Positioning Text
9. Develop Output
10. Build Output

Single Sourcing In Flare

1. Variables
2. Snippets and Styles
3. Single-Source Images
4. Style Sheet Mediums
5. Create Targets

6. Create Condition Tags
7. Apply Condition Tags
8. Preview Topics
9. Associate Tags with Targets
10. Global Project Linking

Markers

This movie provides a quick look at markers, which are highlighted "flags" that show the insertion of certain features (e.g., variables, bookmarks, index keywords) in the content editor.

Structure Bars

This movie explains structure bars, which are unique pieces of the content editor and found only in MadCap Software products. MadCap invented structure bars to greatly enhance and simplify the XML editing experience.