Re: Differentiating between software versions in help articles

Subject: Re: Differentiating between software versions in help articles
From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: Nina Rogers <janina -dot- rogers -at- gmail -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:22:59 -0700

It's been a long time now since I did a help project, but why wouldn't you just create separate articles for the version-specific topics and then have each one map only to the SW version it applies to?

Gene Kim-Eng


On 3/10/2015 1:28 PM, Nina Rogers wrote:


Just wondering how some of you have handled similar challenges, where you
have a support site with lots of articles--some pertaining to one version
of the software, some pertaining to another, and many pertaining to both.


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