What You Can Do in the Project Organizer

When you first start typing content in a topic, 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. This means you can quickly select existing content from the popup so that you do not have to finish typing it. See Auto Suggestion and Adding Auto Suggestion List Files.

If you have several topics that you think end users should read in order, you can create browse sequences. When users view the compiled Help system, they can use your browse sequences to "browse" through topics in a particular order. See Browse Sequences, Adding a Browse Sequence File, and Opening a Browse Sequence.

A condition tag set is used to hold condition tags you create for your project. A condition is a single-sourcing feature that you can apply to files or different areas of your content. Conditions can determine whether certain information displays in some outputs but not in others. You can also control whether content displays on a certain device or screen size. If you want to apply a condition to content, you can click and drag it from the Project Organizer to the content in the XML Editor. See Adding Condition Tag Set Files, Opening Condition Tag Sets, and Applying Conditions to Content.

A Confluence import file is used to import Atlassian Confluence pages into a project. See Adding a Confluence Import File and Opening a Confluence Import File.

An alias file is used to populate a header file with the information necessary for producing context-sensitive Help (CSH). In Flare Desktop, you can open an alias file and use the Alias Editor to create and assign identifiers for the header file. See Context-Sensitive Help, Adding Alias Files, and Opening Alias Files.

A header file is a simple text file that contains basic information about connecting the dialogs or windows in a software application to the corresponding topics in the Help system. Both you and the software developer need access to this file. See Context-Sensitive Help,Adding Header Files, Opening Header Files, and Providing a Developer With Files and Information.

A DITA import file is used to import DITA file content into a project. See Adding a DITA Import File and Opening a DITA Import File.

An Excel import file is used to import Excel files into a project. See Adding an Excel Import File and Opening an Excel Import File.

An export file is used to export an entire Flare project, or parts of one, to another location. See Adding an Export Project File and Exporting Projects.

A file tag set is used to assign "tags" to topics and any other files in Flare, even folders. You can use file tags for many different purposes, such as assigning authors or milestones to topics. Flare Desktop lets you generate reports based on the tags that are assigned. This makes project development easier to track, manage, and schedule. See Adding File Tag Sets.

A Flare project import file is used to import Flare files from other projects. See Adding Project Import Files and Global Project Linking—Importing Files From Other Projects.

When you add project files, they are added to various folders in the Project Organizer. As your list of files grows, it may become somewhat difficult to find a specific file when you want to work on it. In order to keep your files organized and easier to find, you can create subfolders in the Project Organizer and move files into them. See Creating Subfolders.

A FrameMaker import file is used to import FrameMaker documents into a project. See Adding a FrameMaker Import File and Opening a FrameMaker Import File.

A glossary is a feature that you can add to your output to help users understand the meaning of individual terms. See Glossaries, Adding a Glossary File, and Opening a Glossary.

An HTML import file is used to import HTML files into a project. See Adding an HTML Import File and Opening an HTML Import File.

An auto-index lets you automatically add words and phrases in your project to a generated index, rather than inserting the index markers manually. In the Project Organizer, you can add and open an auto-index phrase set. See Creating Auto-Indexes.

This is an index entry that links to another index entry. There are three kinds of index links: "See," "See Also," and "Sort As." In the Project Organizer, you can add and open an index link set. See Creating Index Links.

Flare Desktop provides language skins for certain languages, such as French, German, and Spanish (i.e., many values are already translated). These languages are identified as being "localized" skins. You can edit these default translations by creating a language skin for the language. For languages that do not provide default translations, you can create language skins so they can be applied to the output too. See Adding Language Skins and Editing Language Skins.

You can add meta tag sets to your project to set up a schema of meta tags to be used at various file levels.See Creating Meta Tag Sets.

A publishing destination is a project file that contains the information needed for publishing output (i.e., copying the files) to another location (such as a website or a directory on your computer). See Adding Destination Files and Opening Destination Files.

A relationship table is an element used to link related topics together. It is similar to concept links or related topics links (see Inserting Concept Links and Inserting Related Topics Links). Although a relationship table is a common feature in DITA, you do not need to be using DITA or know anything about DITA in order to take advantage of relationship tables. See Relationship Tables, Adding Relationship Table Files, and Opening Relationship Tables.

From the Reports folder in the Project Organizer, you can generate custom reports based on information contained in your project. In addition, you can design the look and feel of reports, save them for future access, and open them in a browser window (where you can print them). See Analysis Ribbon.

A search filter lets users narrow their search based on concepts that you have inserted into topics. Concepts are simply keyword markers that you insert into topics that have some kind of relationship with each other. They are also used for inserting concept links into topics. See Search, Adding Search Filter Set Files to Projects, and Opening a Search Filter Set.

A synonym file lets you create synonyms for terms in your project so that users are more likely to find the information they need when performing searches. See Search, Adding Synonym Files, and Opening Synonym Files.

A skin is a file that contains information about the appearance of the output window. See Skins, Adding Skin Files, and Opening Skins.

In many cases, Flare Desktop provides you with an initial table of contents (TOC), which you further develop using the TOC Editor. See Tables of Contents, Adding a TOC File, and Opening a TOC File.

A target is one instance of an output type. When you build your final output, you are essentially building one or more of the targets in your project. You can add regular targets, as well as batch targets. See Adding Targets, Building Output Using a Batch Target, and Opening Targets.

A variable set is a file that holds one or more variables. A variable is a small piece of plain text or auto-generated content that can be edited in one place but used in many places throughout your project. Variables are especially useful for text that might change frequently, such as version numbers and dates. Variables are stored in variable sets, which can hold multiple variables. Depending on the template you select when creating a project, Flare Desktop may provide you with an initial variable set, but you can add as many additional variable sets and variables as you like. You can expand the variable sets in the Project Organizer to see the variables within them. If you want to insert a variable into a document, you can click and drag it from the Project Organizer to the XML Editor. See Variables, Adding Variable Sets to Projects, Opening a Variable Set, and Inserting Variables.