When you first start typing content, a popup may display below your text as you type. This is the Auto Suggestion feature, which analyzes text as you type and compares it to other content (e.g., phrases, variables, snippets) that already exists in the project, like this:
This means you can quickly select existing content from the popup so that you do not have to finish typing it.
By default, Auto Suggestion is enabled when you first launch Analyzer. However, you can disable and enable this feature whenever you want.
types of auto suggestion content
There are three kinds of content that you can select when using Auto Suggestion: phrases from custom lists, variables, snippets.
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Phrases From Custom List Rather than automatically basing auto suggestions on all of the text throughout your entire project, you have control over the phrases that you see in the popup when you type. You can add your own words and phrases to an auto suggestions list
examples
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Variables Analyzer recognizes when you are typing content that matches existing variables in your project. This includes system variables, such as the date and time, and custom variables that you create.
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Snippets Analyzer recognizes when you are typing content that matches existing snippets in your project. This makes it a very fast and convenient way to single-source your content.
example
Let's say you work on a team of 15 writers and there are a series of snippets in all of your projects that begin with the same three words—For more information…
Perhaps each person knows to start typing those words in certain places. But what if a snippet already exists with the full content that the writer needs? Without knowing that, a person might spend time typing all of the content, and maybe even create a new snippet for future use. But if Auto Suggestion is enabled, as soon as a person types a certain number of characters, all matching snippets are shown in the Auto Suggestion popup. Therefore, the writer can quickly find and select the appropriate snippet.
tasks for using auto suggestion
Following are the primary tasks that you can perform with Auto Suggestion in Analyzer.
- Enable/Disable Auto Suggestions You can enable and disable auto suggestions from the Options dialog. You can enable or disable the suggestions from particular files (i.e., those from a specific auto suggestions word list, those from specific variable sets), in case you want to use some types of suggestions but not others. You can also enable or disable suggestions from all snippets.
- Specify Auto Suggestion Details (Number and Character Length) You can specify the maximum number of suggestions shown in the Auto Suggestion popup (from 1 to 25), as well as the minimum number of characters that must be typed before the popup opens with suggestions (from 3 to 12).
- Insert Auto Suggestions into Content When you begin typing in a content file, the Auto Suggestion popup opens if Analyzer finds matching text in an auto suggestion list file, snippet, or variable. You can then choose a match from the popup and insert it into your document.