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 works great for me and is reasonably priced, but there are other alternatives, including Author-it, Flare plus MadCap Central, and structured FrameMaker with DITAToo or some other compatible CMS. Switching from unstructured to structured FrameMaker could be a lot more work than switching to Flare, which can directly import FrameMaker files, or Paligo, which can import XHTML exported from FrameMaker. On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 10:06 PM, Caroline Tabach <caroline.tab...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 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 doc except that all of the version number >> references say 1.3. >> >> For a new feature, I add a topic to 1.3, and it appears only in that doc. >> >> When I have a correction to a topic that applies to both 1.2 and 1.3, >> I make the change in either one, and both docs are updated. >> >> When I have a change that applies only to 1.3, I branch the topic and >> make the change in the 1.3 version. >> >> When I have a change that applies to both branches of a branched topic >> (fairly rare), I can make the change in one and reuse the relevant >> paragraph(s) in the other. Sometimes the paragraphs are already reused >> so I just make the change in one place. >> >> This approach greatly reduces the amount of work required to maintain >> docs for multiple releases. It also reduces the likelihood of errors. _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
