Sharing Branding Files With Others

Once you have a branding stylesheet that includes custom branding values, you can share it with others. There are different ways to do this depending on your scope of work and what you want to do. Let's explore a few options.

• No need to share a branding file With this option, you have no further action than to designate branding for your project and be done with it. This might be the case if you are the only writer in your company, or if you are working with a team but you work in the same project. If the branding is defined in the one project, there is no reason to share it beyond that project.

• Save as a template and share across multiple projects You might work on a documentation team where each member maintains a project, but your company wants the team to use the same branding for every project. In this case, a Branding.css is created with specific colors, font, and images by one member of the team. It is saved as a template, and shared like any other file either locally or on a network. See Creating Templates.

• Use Global Project Linking (GPL) to share the branding file Your project consists of a parent project, and multiple child projects that link to the main one via GPL. As the lead writer for a large team, you create a branding stylesheet that you control at the parent level. You instruct each member of your team to import the CSS file from the parent project to the child project they are responsible for. In the end, every project is using the same branding file for a consistent look and feel in output. See Global Project Linking—Importing Files From Other Projects.