MadCap Flare for Programmers: A guide to getting the most from Flare

MadCap Flare for Programmers shows how Flare manages and parses content and how you can interact with Flare outside the user interface. It introduces the structure of Flare content files and Flare output files, such as HTML5 help, and shows how you can manipulate those files.

With more than 50 examples in languages such as JavaScript, C#, Java, XSLT, and Visual Basic, this book covers most of the ways you can programmatically interact with MadCap Flare.

This book is for programmers who support Flare, technical writers who want to look under the hood, and managers who would like to know what possibilities exist beyond the Flare UI.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Flare Projects
• Flare, Topic-based Authoring, and DITA
• Flare Topics
• Flare Tables of Contents
• Flare Indexes, Glossaries, and Search
• JavaScript in Flare Topics, Master Pages, Snippets, and Skins
• Document Automation and Batch Files
• Connecting Applications to Flare Help Outputs
• Flare Application and Flare Plugins
• Formatting and Pasting Code Samples into Flare
• Strategies for Combining Generated and Authored Content
• Batch File Generator Utility