Add condition tags to imported topics based on heading style

[nlieurance]

I'm importing a Word document and need to add condition tags to all of the topics that start with a particular heading style. Anyone know of a good way to automate this? I don't want to have to assign tags manually.

[Nita Beck]

I don't know of a way to do this upon import from Word. But I have a question: Will all these topics eventually reside in the same folder in the Content Explorer? If yes, you can apply the condition to the folder instead of all the individual topics.

And sorry, I forgot my manners. Welcome to the forums!

[nlieurance]

I don't know of a way to do this upon import from Word. But I have a question: Will all these topics eventually reside in the same folder in the Content Explorer? If yes, you can apply the condition to the folder instead of all the individual topics.

And sorry, I forgot my manners. Welcome to the forums!

Thank you, Nita.

I have all topics from the import in the same folder, but only some of them will get the condition. There appear to be several good ways to add conditions to multiple topics at one time, but no good way to automatically add them on import.

[ChoccieMuffin]

I would do a Search-and-Replace on the source code, either in Notepad++ or in Flare searching in the source code, inserting the appropriate condition in the heading. For example, search for <hn and change to <hn MadCap:conditions="Tags.XXX" where n is the heading number and the condition you want to apply is in condition tag set Tags and is called XXX. (I left off the closing > in case you have some headings that have other stuff in them, like classes and so on.

But only if you're happy playing inside the code - you can seriously break your project so make sure you create a backup before you do this kind of thing.

[Psider]

I would do a Search-and-Replace on the source code, either in Notepad++ or in Flare searching in the source code, inserting the appropriate condition in the heading. For example, search for <hn and change to <hn MadCap:conditions="Tags.XXX" where n is the heading number and the condition you want to apply is in condition tag set Tags and is called XXX. (I left off the closing > in case you have some headings that have other stuff in them, like classes and so on.

But only if you're happy playing inside the code - you can seriously break your project so make sure you create a backup before you do this kind of thing.

Hi ChoccieMuffin, won't that only tag the heading, rather than the topic as a whole? (I could totally be mis-remembering how Flare tagging works, however, and I don't currently have access.)