Issue with Conditional Tags

[gswart]

I'm writing HTML5 help for a product which has a basic feature version and an advanced version. I would like to have one output that works for both versions.
I have conditional tags applied to text that is just for basic or just for advanced. I'm thinking that I would like my main TOC to just have basic information and a browse sequence to have the advanced info. My problem is several topics would need to be in both my TOC and my browse sequence, but those topics would show different info. I thought it would be as easy as setting my TOC to the basic tags and my browse sequence to the advanced. But both tags are displaying in both areas. I tried at the topic level and at the TOC/Browse Sequence level with no change. I don't have any tags included or excluded at my target level.
Is this something I can accomplish by using the Advanced Conditional Tagging?
I'm looking for any advice on what I'm doing wrong OR if there's a better way to set this up.
Thanks!

[roboHAL]

gswart, I believe you are going about this the wrong way. You state "I would like to have one output that works for both versions." You probably want one source and two outputs. Otherwise all of the information (both versions) are available in the same output (i.e. rather user group can view either beginner or advanced topics). If I'm mistaken and you do in fact want all of the version information in one output, then conditional tags are not going to help you. I suggest using concepts and a search filter in that case. Moreover, and again assuming you do want only one output, forget the browse sequence. That is merely a "suggested reading order". Instead, just use the table of contents and create a book labeled "beginner" and another book labeled "advanced" and attach other books and pages within those. Hope this helps.

[Nita Beck]

You *might* be able to achieve your goal using snippet conditions. You'd need to put the shared content into snippets and to conditionalize bits of the content within the snippets for the basic user and other bits of content for the advanced user. Then create a separate topic for the basic user, drop in the snippet, and set the topic's snippet conditions to include the basic condition and exclude the advanced condition; put this topic on the part of the TOC intended for basic users. Similarly, create a separate topic for the advanced user, drop in the snippet, and set that topic's snippet conditions to exclude the basic condition and include the advanced condition; put this topic on the part of the TOC intended for advanced users. (This is all theoretical on my part, but I'm pretty sure this how snippet conditions work, and apparently there were enhancements to snippet conditions made in Flare 12.)

I tend to agree with roboHAL about both having one TOC that serves both user populations and about not bothering with a browse sequence, which I think are more trouble than they are worth.