You create an outline by linking new or existing documents in a multi-level hierarchy that you design using the Outline Editor. You will use a combination of modules, sections, or topics to design the outline hierarchy using as many levels as you want. Although you will typically create topic documents to capture transactional recordings of how to perform a task in an application, your use of module or section documents is completely your choice as these documents are merely containers for other documents. For example, you can choose to design an outline using just modules and topics, sections and topics, or a combination of modules, sections, and topics. 

 

You can also link questions and/or assessments anywhere in an outline to test a user's knowledge of the content that precedes the question/assessment. 


After you create an outline, you can refine it by changing document relationships, copying documents, deleting incorrect or unnecessary links, and so on. You can also embellish your outline with additional attachments in the form of web pages, packages, and URLs.


The Outline Editor will also display broken link documents.


Publishing Note: Empty module and section documents that have concept attachments are included in all published outputs. If an empty module/section has no concept attachment, it is not included in any published output. Topics with concept/introduction attachments are only included in published output if they are recorded and not empty.


Also note that if a topic has no concept link, the topic introduction text appears in the Concept pane in the Player.


See Also Links

For any module, section, and topic in an outline, you can create See Also links for related content. For example, a section can have See Also links to other module, section, or topic documents that a user can navigate to in the Player/HTML Website when a document is selected in the outline. A See Also button appears in the Player with a list of related documents that the user can navigate to. The list of See Also documents also appear in document and presentation output. You can create See Also document links using the See Also property on the Properties toolpane.


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