Auto-generate topics under a category in another linked page
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 12:52 pm
Hey guys!
I am new to Madcap Flare and am self-teaching until I can take a training course.
I am currently creating a giant knowledge-base for my company. I am using the Balboa template, which includes boxes/sections on the homepage that you can use as different categories of topics. What I want to accomplish is to link these boxes/sections, now categories, to specific topics within my entire project that content-wise fall under that category. I currently am just using a topic I've titled "Nav-page [category name here]" where I've typed the titles of the topics I'm creating and linking each topic to that title, then linking that nav-page to the text in each box on the home page. (Can you tell I usually hard-code everything? ) I want to find a way to automate the generation of topics under each category so the user can click on the box on the home page and see a list of every topic that falls under that category without having to write out every title and link it every time I create a new topic.
I've done research into concept links and have tried using those, but the concept proxy only shows every single concept you've created and the concept link only shows a pull-down of customized topics, instead of taking the user to another page. I'm sure there's a way to automate what I want, I just haven't found it yet, and I'm sure the method I'm using right now is grossly under-using Madcap Flare's capabilities.
I am new to Madcap Flare and am self-teaching until I can take a training course.
I am currently creating a giant knowledge-base for my company. I am using the Balboa template, which includes boxes/sections on the homepage that you can use as different categories of topics. What I want to accomplish is to link these boxes/sections, now categories, to specific topics within my entire project that content-wise fall under that category. I currently am just using a topic I've titled "Nav-page [category name here]" where I've typed the titles of the topics I'm creating and linking each topic to that title, then linking that nav-page to the text in each box on the home page. (Can you tell I usually hard-code everything? ) I want to find a way to automate the generation of topics under each category so the user can click on the box on the home page and see a list of every topic that falls under that category without having to write out every title and link it every time I create a new topic.
I've done research into concept links and have tried using those, but the concept proxy only shows every single concept you've created and the concept link only shows a pull-down of customized topics, instead of taking the user to another page. I'm sure there's a way to automate what I want, I just haven't found it yet, and I'm sure the method I'm using right now is grossly under-using Madcap Flare's capabilities.