Re: [Framers] Fwd: Managing Versions of documentation simultaneously

To my knowledge, there's no practical way to do that kind of parallel updating of doc versions using unstructured FrameMaker. If updating multiple versions of the doc is a requirement, you should evaluate other tools with better support for reuse, versioning, variable sets, and profiling. Paligo

Re: [Framers] Fwd: Managing Versions of documentation simultaneously

So is Paligo instead of FrameMaker? Caroline Tabach בתאריך יום ד׳, 2 במאי 2018, 23:41, מאת Robert Lauriston ‏< rob...@lauriston.com>: > The way I have things set up on Paligo, when we ship, say, release > 1.2, I branch the 1.2 doc to create the 1.3 doc, and update the > version number variable

Re: [Framers] Fwd: Managing Versions of documentation simultaneously

The way I have things set up on Paligo, when we ship, say, release 1.2, I branch the 1.2 doc to create the 1.3 doc, and update the version number variable in the 1.3 doc to reflect the new number. At that point, all the topics are the same. If I generate the 1.3 doc, it's identical to the 1.2

Re: [Framers] Fwd: Managing Versions of documentation simultaneously

Well, you could think of it like what is done with version control. When Release 3 of Application A comes out, they create a branch for Release 3 and the trunk continues forward to Release 3.1 or 4 or whatever. Sometimes fixes for Release 3 are that release only. Sometimes they also go into

Re: [Framers] Fwd: Managing Versions of documentation simultaneously

The nature of software releases means that the number of conditions would grow indefinitely. I don't see how this would not eventually become unmanageable. DITA (which is just a text markup standard) doesn't make sense if you don't have a lot more reuse than simply maintaining multiple versions

Re: [Framers] Fwd: Managing Versions of documentation simultaneously

I think it would depend on how many simultaneous versions you have to manage. I've done something similar in Frame where I had to keep three different versions of a document from one set of source files - there were different features for different roles, not versions per se, but the problem was

Re: [Framers] Fwd: Managing Versions of documentation simultaneously

I switched to Paligo in part because it's very good at maintaining multiple versions and handling reuse across versions. It has an integrated CMS that handles that stuff. I presume that structured FrameMaker with a compatible CMS that supports reuse can do what I do with Paligo, but switching

Re: [Framers] Fwd: Managing Versions of documentation simultaneously

At 11:52 PM 5/1/2018, Caroline Tabach wrote: I have been asked what SW writing tool can manage versions. At first I thought "version control" like you have in Software, but I found they meant maintaining multiple versions of the User guides at the same time. For instance, even when SW version

Re: [Framers] Fwd: Managing Versions of documentation simultaneously

You can use conditional text to do this, but you have to be very careful with tagging the conditional text. I've done this with a very, very complicated documentation set: 3 main platforms with between 2-4 versions each, with internal and external conditions on top of that. There are two ways to

[Framers] Fwd: Managing Versions of documentation simultaneously

Caroline Tabach -- Forwarded message - From: Caroline Tabach ‪Date: יום ג׳, 1 במאי 2018, 16:23‬ Subject: Managing Versions of documentation simultaneously To: techsho...@yahoogroups.com Hi I have been asked what SW