Related Topics Control and Conditions

[sarrants]

I've run into a problem using the Related Topics control and conditional text. I have some topics called "Installing DensitaNeurolucidaStereo Investigator" and "Moving DensitaNeurolucidaStereo Investigator". Each product name is a different condition, so I can use just one set of files, so the titles might be "Installing Neurolucida" or "Moving Neurolucida".
However, if I use the topic name as an entry in a Related Topics Control, the CHM shows the entire title--not conditionalized--in the Related Topics list.

Is there a way to show the conditionalized text?

[LTinker68]

A better option would be to use a variable called ProductName (or whatever you want to call it). Set its value in the variable set to one of the products. Then you have two targets, and in each target, you specify the actual product name to use with that target. So if product 1's name is Densita and product 2's name is Neurolucida, you set ProductName to Densita in the project's variable set. When you open TargetDensita (guessing on the name) and go to the variable set in the target, you leave ProductName set to Densita. In TargetNeurolucida, you go to the variable set in the target and change the ProductName variable to Neurolucida. As you're authoring in Flare you'll always see Densita used as the name, but when you generate the TargetNeurolucida, it'll automatically swap out all instances of the name Densita with the name Neurolucida.

[sarrants]

Thanks, Lisa--I'll make the changes to the source files with your suggestions.

steve arrants