(This is part five of a five-part series dealing with content reuse in the Help Authoring Tool (HAT) MadCap Flare version 3.1.) Review It’s time for a brief review: When we talk about content reuse, we mean writing content once and then creating multiple outputs from that single source of content. Flare is a help …

(This is part four of a five-part series dealing with content reuse in the Help Authoring Tool (HAT) MadCap Flare.) Now that we’ve covered variables and snippets in depth, I want to talk about another tool that Flare includes that makes content reuse possible: conditions. Conditions are settings that are applied to content. When a …

(This is part three of a five-part series dealing with content reuse in the Help Authoring Tool (HAT) MadCap Flare.) Yesterday we talked about variables. Today I want to expand on that discussion and talk about snippets. Think of snippets as long variables that can contain formatting and text. If you’ve used variables for a …

(This is part two of a five-part series dealing with content reuse in the Help Authoring Tool (HAT) MadCap Flare.) Yesterday I gave an overview of what content reuse is, and why it is important, and who should use it. Today we are discussing a specific way MadCap Flare allows you to reuse content: variables. …

Today I start a series of posts on how you can re-use content in MadCap Flare. This is a five-day series. It covers: Day 1: Overview of content reuse (this post) Day 2: Content Reuse In-Depth: Variables Day 3: Content Reuse In-Depth: Snippets Day 4: Content Reuse In-Depth: Conditions Day 5: Content Reuse Wrap up: …