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Conditional build tag concepts - Flare Tutorial
From the course: MadCap Flare 12 Essential Training
Conditional build tag concepts
- [Voiceover] In this video, you'll learn about Conditional Build Tag concepts. A condition is a category for content, and a Build Tag is the marker that indicates the category in which a piece of content or a control file belongs. Content, or project elements, can have a Build Tag assigned to them or not. If they don't have a Build Tag, like this topic and this topic, they're always used. If some material does have a Build Tag assigned to it, you can control whether or not that material is used in a particular output, included or excluded. So for example, if I want to generate Output A I'll tell Flare, give me those two topics that had no labels and then give me all the topics that were labeled A. If I want to generate Output B, similar, those two topics that were not labeled get included and then all the topics that are labeled B get included. This makes Conditionality one of the core features behind single sourcing, because this allows you to have one Project that contains…
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Single sourcing definitions3m 2s
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Conditional build tag concepts3m 52s
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Conditional build tag use3m 40s
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✓ Challenge 11: Create a conditional build tag1m 27s
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✓ Solution 11: Create a conditional build tag4m 1s
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Variable concepts5m 4s
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✓ Challenge 12: Create a variable1m 57s
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✓ Solution 12: Create a variable3m 36s
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Snippet concepts4m 7s
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✓ Challenge 13: Create a snippet1m 43s
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✓ Solution 13: Create a snippet3m 9s
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