- [Voiceover] Now that you've seen how to create…a new project and open and close an existing one,…your first challenge is to…create a new project of your own.…Call your new project Flare Challenge,…and base it on the empty template.…Then close the project and reopen it…using the different techniques in the video that just ended.…This challenge should take about five minutes,…most of which you will be opening and closing the project.…When you finish, check out my solution video.…
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Author
Neil Perlin
Released
7/11/2016
MadCap Flare is a powerful authoring tool for creating technical documentation—help systems, service manuals, and more—in online and print forms like HTML5 and PDF. In this course, Neil Perlin first explores Flare's conventions and interface. He then explains how to create projects based on Flare 11's "topic model." Learn how to create projects, add content, add navigation to let users find information quickly, control the format of the material, define different outputs from a single project, and generate those outputs in any of 16 different formats.
Topics include:
- Creating content using topics
- Adding and managing topics
- Importing files
- Inserting graphics
- Creating a table of contents, glossary, and cross-references
- Adding hyperlinks
- Formatting documents with stylesheets
- Creating master pages
- Single sourcing content
- Using variables and snippets
- Generating output
Skill Level Beginner
4h 5m
Duration
6,035
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Introduction
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Welcome48s
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Project-based challenges2m 12s
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1. Basic Concepts
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What is Flare?1m 42s
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Flare's interface6m 30s
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2. Creating Content Using Topics
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Topic concepts3m 55s
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Basic topic tasks4m 59s
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Managing existing topics3m 23s
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Importing HTML files4m 1s
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Inserting graphic objects3m 40s
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3. Navigation
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TOC concepts3m 46s
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Basic TOC creation4m 55s
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Creating online glossaries6m 29s
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Hyperlinks3m 13s
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Cross-references5m 58s
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4. Add Formatting
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CSS concepts4m 48s
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CSS creation5m 50s
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CSS application1m 57s
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CSS modification4m 46s
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Table stylesheets7m 30s
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Skin concepts2m 14s
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Tripane skin creation3m 40s
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Topnav skin creation2m 34s
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5. Single Sourcing
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Single-sourcing definitions2m 55s
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Variable concepts6m 24s
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Snippet concepts6m 30s
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6. Understanding Outputs vs. Targets
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Outputs vs. targets4m 56s
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Generating output4m 57s
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m 42s
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Video: Challenge 1: Create a new project