RE: Highlighting new material in Webhelp - temporarily

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Ed replied to me:
> > 
> > I asked this in the Madcap Flare forums, but you folks might 
> > have some ideas as well.
> > 
> > At a new release of an established product, how can I 
> > highlight the 5% or 10% of material that is new, so that it 
> > stands out from the stuff that's been in place for months or 
> > years of previous releases?
> > 
> > Better yet, how can I do this in such a way that it is easy 
> > to UN-do it for the next release, so that I can apply the 
> > highlighting to whatever is then new to the product?
> > 
> > I don't care if it's a color, a font, or some other special 
> > treatment, I just want a non-labor-intensive way to make it 
> > happen, then make it un-happen and move on.
> > 
> > This if for the output, of course.
> > 
> > Any magic using conditions?
> > 
> > 
> > What do y'all do?  Whether it's with Flare or another HAT?
> > 


> From: Ed [mailto:hamonwry12 -at- hotmail -dot- com] 

> If you're using a TOC, why not use one of the different icons than the
> default for books and topics? Some of them have little starbursts.

It's relatively rare that new material is an entire book within the
WebHelp.

Often, it'll be a new page, added here and there. One or three in the
Reference section (syntax and basic explanations of commands), possibly
one in the Concepts if it's a new concept for the product, and perhaps a
page or two in the Config or the Admin&Maintenance section where the
actual Howto material is presented, something in the SDK section if it's
for developers.

More likely, though, new stuff will be a section or a paragraph of added
or modified text within existing pages.

The suggestion from Lisa in the Flare forums was to just make a "What's
New/Changed" book at the top of the ToC, and include pointers to all
new-or-changed pages.  That way it would always be in the same place,
and just one place.  That's still a bit rough for in-page changes or
additions, but serves the purpose ...  In the absense of a brilliant
suggestion that nobody's thought of yet.  :-)

 - Kevin





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