What's New in MadCap Central, March 2024
Building upon the success of AI Assist in Central, Experience a revolutionary upgrade to our cloud-based content editor including the ability to create and edit variables, snippets and dynamic drop downs for enhanced cloud-based authoring, contribution and review.
Boost Content Creation and Management With Enhancements to the Content Editor
Insert and Edit Variables
Seamlessly insert variables and apply them across all your topics, enhancing content control, authoring efficiency, and maximizing reuse.
Watch NowEffortlessly Create, Edit, and Modify Snippets
Gain unprecedented control with the ability to effortlessly insert and reuse snippets across multiple topics. Streamline content updates and easily replace units of information by inserting, opening and editing snippets directly from within their context, enabling both authors and subject matter experts to make inline modifications.
Watch NowCreate Interactive Dropdowns for Streamlined Exploration
Transform your content into an interactive journey with dynamic and interactive dropdowns, enabling users to tailor their exploration of complex information, ensuring a cleaner, engaging, and personalized reading experience.
Watch NowImproved File Handling and Load Performance
Enhanced File Management: Benefit from increased file size limits and intuitive warnings to prevent bottlenecks in the review process
Streamlined Review and Editing: Avoid common file size issues with proactive alerts
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MadCap Central September 2023 Release
AI ENHANCED AUTHORING with ChatGPT integration
Next Generation AI-Powered Content Authoring. Now Available on our US and New EU Server!
Craft Scripts and Code | Compose New Content | Create Regular Expressions | Translate Content
Whether you're crafting fresh content or refining existing material, AI Assist is your go-to tool. It can assist you in generating creative ideas, evaluating subject matter expert input, and meticulously reviewing your content. You can effortlessly enhance, edit, or refine your content by simply clicking a button to incorporate the suggested improvements.
Increase Efficiency and Quality
Enhance and Improve Your Existing Content
- Rewrite Content
- Enforce Style Guides
- Summarize Lengthy Text
- Authenticate Facts
Ensure Consistency of Content
Stay True to Branding, Style Guides and Terminology
By making suggestions based on previously approved content in your repositories, AI Assist helps your authors stay true to your brand's voice, reducing unnecessary editor reviews, and harmonizing your content across the organization.
Compare Suggestions
Automatically Compare Suggestions to Existing Content
Differences and Quick Insertion combine to offer seamless editing.
Visualize AI Assist text improvements and instantly insert them into your topics or snippets with a single click.
AI Assist and Team Permissions
Your Security and IP Concerns, Our Priority!
Your security and IP concerns remain our top priority. AI Assist is not automatically enabled in MadCap Central; instead, your account administrator controls its activation and can authorize access for select authors or users.
THE EUROPEAN ADVANTAGE
Data Storage and Faster, More Tailored Experiences with European Server Access
You now have the power to select a server located in Europe, right from the Central portal. The European Server, situated in Germany, ensures data proximity and data protection for our European users.
The new AI Assist feature in MadCap Central provides one-click access to an incredibly powerful assistant that can draft, outline, summarize, fact check, and edit content in seconds. With AI Assist, I can focus on more complex tasks and drastically increase my productivity.
Scott DeLoachCEO | ClickStart
Webinar
Do More With Less in Madcap Central: Next Gen AI Authoring
Tuesday, October 24 at 10am PT
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MadCap Central May 2023 Release
Simplify Your Workflow
Bundle and Review Files
Central and Flare now offer support for review packages. With this new feature, you can easily bundle your files and send them off for review directly from Central.
Updates to Main Reviews Page
Managing Review Packages
Every user has unique needs, and that's why we've designed the reviews main page to cater to specific roles. What you see and interact with largely depends on your user type. For example, a Reviewer is mainly exposed to packages for reviewing and editing, but an owner has additional access for managing packages and file grids, and can also create packages directly in Central.
Toggle Files View, TOC View, and Statuses
Take Control of How You View Your Files
You now have the option to view topics as individual files or in a sleek new TOC view that provides greater context and a more natural flow of materials. Reviewers can also see the vertical “at-a-glance" color status indicating “To Do,” “In Progress,” and “Submitted.”
Managing Review Packages Right From Central
The Freedom to Make Changes
Even if you aren’t the owner, you can have “Manage Reviews” permissions, as long as you are an author.
Once you have permissions, you can open a package to add or remove reviewers, add or delete files, set the package status manually, and more.
Webinar-On-Demand
Maximizing Your Collaboration Workflow with MadCap Central's New Review Packages Feature
Thursday, May 25 at 10am PT
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Previous Releases
April 2023
release:
- Effortlessly Create Collaborative Teams in MadCap Central
- Simplified Active Filters
- Single Sign-On (SSO) Validation Message and Email Enhancements
January 2023
release:
- Content Collaboration improvements, non-authors can now create and edit content in the cloud.
- New Code Editor and Updated View for Project Files
- Easier Permissions management for Users and Content Teams
November 2022
release:
- SSO for MadCap Central
June 2022
release:
- Access Enhancements to Projects, Teams, and Users
- New Project Profile Overview Tab
- New Security Settings Give You More Control
- New Profiles and Task Board Icons
- New Team Permissions
January 2022
release:
- Branching Support for Your MadCap Central Git Repository in MadCap Flare
- New Git Publishing Features in MadCap Flare including Sending and Receiving Reviews for Individual Branches
- Branch Manager Dialogue Enhancements for Git in MadCap Flare
- New Filter Enhancements for Topic Reviews Make Finding Topics Quick and Easy in MadCap Central
- New Site Profiles Make Managing Sites Easier in MadCap Central
August 2021
release:
- Streamline Your Review Process for eLearning Content
- Definition Lists Now Supported in Cloud-based Reviews
- Add Trusted Domains to Manage Site Security and Display
- Plus Performance Enhancements and More
February 2021
release:
- Full Table Support Now Included in Cloud-based Contribution and Review
- New Build Profile Dialog Includes Build Details and Actions
- Horizontal Scrolling in Grids
- Site Avatars
May 2020
release:
- Host and Publish Secure Private Output with Password Protected User Access
- User Types Now Include Author, Subject Matter Expert and Viewer
- Site Management for Multiple Domains, Vanity URLs and Live Status
- Create, Edit and Duplicate Site Themes for UI Elements
- A Completely Redesigned Task Dialog Makes Overall Task Management and Workflow More Efficient
- Settings and Profile Enhancements: User Settings and License Settings
October 2019
release:
- Continuously Improve Your Content, Customer Satisfaction and ROI with the Only Data Analytics Solution Built for Your Documentation
- Direct Publishing from Flare to MadCap Central
- Lightweight Editor Enhancements
July 2019
release:
- Streamlined “Send-for-Translation” Workflow for Your Projects and Files
- New Enhanced Security Options
- Bulk Invitation of Authors and Subject Matter Experts
April 2019
release:
- A Completely Redesigned User Interface Makes Managing Content in the Cloud Easier Than Ever
- Enhancements to Projects, Tasks and Widgets
- Bulk Invitation of Authors and Subject Matter Experts
September 2018
release:
- Scan Projects to Find and Fix Critical Issues with a New Project Reports Page
- Report Widgets
June 2018
release:
- Use Your Custom Domain Name for Published Output from MadCap Central
May 2018
release:
- New Cloud-based Editor for Streamlined Contribution and Review with MadCap Flare
- Advanced Editing and Reviewing Content in the Cloud
- New User Types: Authors and Subject Matter Experts
- Preview Project Files with the New Files View
- Project Linking via Global Project Linking, Runtime Merging, and Multilingual Output
January 2018
Release:
- Template Manager for Project Checklists
October 2017
release:
- Customizable Project Checklists to Track Project-Specific Activities and Progress
- Unlimited Concurrent Live Builds Per Target Using Vanity URL Paths
- Private URLs for Internal Reviews
- Exclude Live Builds from Search Engines
- Project Linking via Global Project Linking, Runtime Merging, and Multilingual Output
March 2017
release:
- Slack Integration for Notifications
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