MDonoghue wrote:I mean, can you do something like the following example:
I have a food menu and choose chicken, can I see a list of those vegetables available with the chicken?
And if I choose potatoes can I choose gravy, butter, or nothing?
You get the idea...
Thanks - MD
Just to be clear, what Flare calls a
variable is quite different to how the term is used in programming. In Flare, think of a variable as pre-defined piece of text that can be reused in your topics, for example you might have a variable called
CompanyName that is set to
MadCap Software. When you build your help, Flare replaces each
CompanyName variable in your topics with the text string
MadCap Software.
From your question, it sounds like you want to select things from lists, which is something quite different. To have a list in your topic from which you select items, this involves using a HTML form with a drop-down list (
select tag). You can include these types of controls in your Flare projects (as they're just standard HTML), although Flare itself isn't really a very good editor for this type of work.
To start off with, see:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp (forms)
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_select.asp (select tag, used for drop-down lists)