barbs wrote:ChoccieMuffin wrote:Why not include them in the TOC, and condition them as screen only?
And that's where you lost me.
I don't have a "screen only" condition setting. Is this one that you've configured? Is it a default condition from Flare that maybe was deleted from my project before I inherited it? Do you apply it to the TOC listing for the topic (rather than to the topic itself)? What does it actually do? Does the topic then NOT show up in the TOC of the CHM?
I would love to learn more about how this actually works.
Thanks!
Barb
As a starter, conditions are discussed in the help:
http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2017r2/Content/Condition-Tags/Flare/About-Condition-Tags.htm?Highlight=conditionsIn brief, you create one or more condition tag sets, which can contain many conditions. So let's say you create a condition tag set called Primary, and in it you create a tag called ScreenOnly and another called PrintOnly.
For these CSH topics you're on about, put them in your TOC in a sensible place, and in the TOC apply the ScreenOnly condition. I also apply that condition in the Content Explorer, for clarity, and because I only ever want those topics to appear in the help, not in any print outputs. (There is a difference in how the conditions are applied depending on where you apply the condition, but you can read about that in the link I posted.)
Applying conditions to topics or content does nothing UNTIL you adjust the conditions of your various targets. I'll assume you have a print output (such as PDF) and a help output.
In any target that you DON'T want to include those topics (such as a PDF or some other print output), in the Conditions tab EXCLUDE the Primary.ScreenOnly condition. This means that any topic marked with that condition, and any entry in your TOC marked with that condition (and any content inside a topic marked with that condition) doesn't appear in the output. (That last bit is handy, as you might want to include additional cross-refs in your help that you don't need in printed outputs, for example. If you include them in the topic and then condition the paragraph as ScreenOnly, when you generate your PDF those additional refs don't appear.)
In any target that you DO want to include those topics, such as your help, you don't need to do anything on the Conditions tab as the default is to include stuff. So the topics will appear in the TOC of your help and will be called by your CSH. (And you may also have topics that you ONLY want to appear in your print output, so as above apply the PrintOnly condition to those topics and then in your help EXCLUDE the PrintOnly condition.)
And that's it.
Hope that helps.
