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The 2019 edition of this STC award-winning book explains how to organize, build, and publish online help, policies and procedures, knowledge bases, user guides and more using the industry benchmark for single source publishing: MadCap Flare. Flare expert Scott DeLoach shares detailed information about how to import content from Author-it^®, RoboHelp^®, Word, FrameMaker^®, HTML, and DITA documents and how to use all of Flare’s features. Each section also includes sample questions to help you prepare for the Flare certification test.

Have you ever inherited an online help or documentation project about which you had no information or description? The result? You wasted resources and time trying to understand the project or, worse… working blindly, hoping that you were working correctly or that you could to go back and fix whatever went wrong. A good project specification can eliminate these headaches. In this book, long-time content consultant Neil Perlin describes how to quickly create specifications. He describes what information to put in a specification, how to write it fast, and how to manage it to keep it from getting overlooked and forgotten. The result? No more wasting time trying to figure out how or why some feature was created or trying to contact the original author. Instead, more efficient and effective project management.

“MadCap Flare, l'essentiel pour bien démarrer” s'adresse aux rédacteurs techniques, professionnels ou occasionnels, qui désirent commencer un projet de documentation avec le logiciel MadCap Flare ou améliorer un projet existant. Ce livre est le fruit à la fois de nos formations données sur MadCap Flare, sur la rédaction topic-based et sur la rédaction technique en général, et de notre expérience dans la gestion de nombreux projets chez nos différents clients, chacun avec ses particularités. Ce que ce livre est… Une introduction qui vous permettra d'appréhender les différentes fonctionnalités que vous offre Flare et qui vont vous aider à structurer au mieux votre projet et simplifier votre travail en vous concentrant sur votre valeur ajoutée : rédiger la documentation et la rendre accessible à vos utilisateurs. … et ce qu'il n'est pas Il ne se veut pas une aide exhaustive de Flare. Cette aide existe déjà intégrée au logiciel et en ligne sur le site de MadCap Software.

One of the biggest challenges in moving to a new content development environment is migrating existing content to new tools. Moving content, especially unstructured content, can be expensive and time-consuming. HTML to MadCap Flare shows you how to import content, including dynamic content, into MadCap Flare effectively and efficiently.

This book combines clear explanations with detailed examples and complete scripts. It helps writers understand how Flare works and gives tools developers and maintainers what they need to automate the migration and maintenance of content.

MadCap Flare for Programmers: A guide to getting the most from Flare shows how MadCap Flare manages and parses content and how you can interact with Flare outside the user interface. It introduces the structure of Flare content files and Flare output files, such as HTML5 help, and shows how you can manipulate those files.

With more than 50 examples in languages such as JavaScript, C#, Java, XSLT, and Visual Basic, this book covers most of the ways you can programmatically interact with MadCap Flare.