I've not completely followed this thread, but I do know of a wiki that lets you reuse content.
I've been using MindTouch for one client, and it definitely lets you reuse content. I've created multiple "guides" in it and have many sections that I've written once and reused in two or more places. It's fairly easy to do. I do find the MindTouch editor to have some significant missing functions (which we've requested), but the sharing of content does work quite well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com <http://www.techcomplus.com/> www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _____ From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of rebecca officer Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:12 PM To: Robert Lauriston; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify myupgrading from FM10 Yes, I guess we're using CT like text insets on a very fine-grained scale. Darn about the lack of content reuse in Confluence. Since that thread in July, I read some of Confluence's marketing material and got hopeful that they might have enough text-inset-like behaviour for our needs. The AutoDesk hybrid system looks great but is way out of our budget. Back to XML, I guess. The goal of this is to get our software developers helping to write the user docs. The software developers don't want to use XML because it's difficult to learn. They want a nice straightforward wiki. I'll have to see if it's possible to make XML authoring easy enough that software developers can pick it up with pretty much no training. Ugh. Cheers Rebecca >>> Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> 28/11/12 17:49 >>> Ah, so you're using conditional text like text insets. Neither Confluence nor any other extant wiki is set up for reusing content. We discussed that in detail in July in the "Single sourcing from Frame and a wiki ... or something ..." topic you started. As I noted there, AutoDesk's hybrid system does what you want but it's expensive. On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:02 PM, rebecca officer <rebecca.officer at alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote: > Hi Robert > > Thanks for discussing this - I really appreciate it. > > Our company produces half a dozen different hardware products with similar > software feature sets. There's a lot of feature overlap. And we do new > software releases at least annually. We've got one set of source FM files, > and we use conditional text to build a document set for each product at each > new release. Without conditional text, we'd have to maintain multiple > similar copies of FM files, which would be an error-rich nightmare. Many of > the differences are at the word or sentence level, but we could rewrite them > into separate paragraphs if we have to. > > I think, if we go to Confluence, we'll need to create one wiki space per > product (per release), so we can keep delivering product-specific info. That > would mean maintaining multiple similar copies, unless we can reuse content > in multiple spaces. So I'm trying to work out what the Confluence model is > for reusing content, and how we could get there from FM. NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20121128/34ddf482/attachment.html>