Personalizing publications
By using conditions and variables in your content, you maximize content reuse while still allowing for content uniqueness. You can personalize publications by selecting conditions and adding resources that define the variables to use for output.
- Setting a condition on topic content in Draft Space
You can set conditions on individual XML elements by defining a value for the element's@ishconditionattribute. - Setting a condition on a topic or map in Draft Space
You can set conditions on complete topics or even child maps of a parent map so that they are included or excluded in the published output. To do this, you need to define the condition within the parent map to the link to the topic or child map (as opposed to applying the condition to the topic or child map itself). - Setting conditions with Authoring Bridge
You can set conditions on individual XML elements by defining a value for the element's@ishconditionattribute. Within a single@ishconditionattribute, the value can be a simple name-value pair or a complex expression. - Removing conditions from content with Authoring Bridge
Conditions can be used on XML elements so you can filter the data for publishing or viewing. In your authoring tool you can easily remove these conditions from XML elements. - Selecting conditions for your publication
If you have conditional data tagged in your publication, Publication Manager allows you to easily select the conditional data to use in the output at publication time and produce personalized output for your readers. - Example scenario: Setting conditions and configuring custom output
This scenario describes tagging data with conditions and configuring two publication output formats to include and exclude the conditional data. - Inserting variables
Insert variables in your XML objects as placeholders for changeable content. For example, when creating the same publication for different brands of the same product, you can assign a different value for the variables such as a brand name or a company logo. - Adding a variable resource file in Publication Manager
The resource file in a publication is used by Content Manager to resolve variables included in your topics. You include variables in topics to customize data, for example, you may use a variable for a brand name or company logo that may change from publication to publication or when you preview . The data in the resource file replaces the variable when you publish.