Re: Using conditions in multi-destination docs

[Suzette Leeming <suzette -dot- leeming -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Just curious... can you only use "not" conditions? Why can't you use
something like "if Prod1", "if Prod2", etc. Then it would be easy to add a
"if Prod3".

I know the software I use has both inclusive and exclusive conditions, so
that's why I'm thinking this way.

Suzette Leeming




On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:34 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin <
Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:

>
> For a doc set that can be used with either Prod1 or
> Prod2, can I get away with just two condition tags:
>
>  - notProductOne
>  - notProductTwo
>
> Example text would be something like:
>
> "Your [Prod1][Prod2] arrives from the factory with default
> network settings. Before using the appliance configure
> for your network as follows: "
>
> Each time a product name appeared it would be a pair with
> both elements condition tagged. [Prod1] would have condition
> notProductTwo, and [Prod2] would be tagged notProductOne.
>
> I would do the same with paragraphs and whole topics/pages
> that applied to just one or the other.
>
> Am I overlooking a situation where a third condition would
> come in handy (or be literally indispensible)? Assume, for
> now, that only the two output versions are needed for the
> next year or three.
>
> By default anything that's untagged appears in the output
> regardless of the product, since it should be common to both.
> I can't shake the nagging feeling that I'm going to get
> halfway through the project and suddenly regret not having
> wielded a third tag in a bunch of places.  Darn it...
>
>
> Kevin McLauchlan
> Senior Technical Writer
> SafeNet, Inc.
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