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Adding Condition Tag Set Files

A condition tag set is used to hold condition tags you create for your project. Flare's factory templates provide you with an initial condition tag set, which contains two condition tags (PrintOnly and ScreenOnly) to help get you started. You can create as many additional condition tags as you want for that condition tag set. However, if for some reason you want more condition tag sets to hold even more condition tags, you can easily add them.

A condition tag set file has an .flcts extension and is stored in the Project Organizer under the Conditional Text folder.

How to add a condition tag set file

Select Project>Add Condition Tag Set.

The Add Condition Tag Set dialog opens.
In the Source area select one of the following:
- New from template This lets you choose either a factory template file or one of your own customized template files as a starting point. The new file will take on all of the settings contained in the template. If you want to use a factory template provided by Flare, expand the Factory Templates folder and click on a template file. If you want to use your own customized template file, expand the appropriate folder and click on a file. Click here to find out what templates are all about.
  Note: In some dialogs and wizards you can click the Manage Templates button if you want to open the Template Manager. This lets you manage any of your template files (e.g., add new templates, enter descriptions for templates). See Managing Templates.
- New from existing This lets you choose an existing file of the same type—that you've already created and stored somewhere—as a starting point for your new file. As with template files, your new file will take on all of the settings contained in the file you select. To use this option, click the browse button , use the dialog that opens to find a file, and double-click it.
In the File Name field, type a new name for the condition tag set.
Click Add.
Click OK.

The condition tag set is added to the Conditional Text folder in the Project Organizer. The Condition Tag Set Editor opens to the right, with the page for the new condition tag set shown. As with the default condition tag set, Flare provides you with two condition tags (PrintOnly and ScreenOnly) to help get you started.

Note: Condition tags are not supported if you are generating a target using the DITA output type, in the sense that you cannot include or exclude condition tags for that DITA output. Therefore, when you open a DITA target, the options in the Conditional Text tab are disabled. However, DITA-specific condition tag attributes are preserved in Flare when you import from DITA; the DITA attributes are converted to condition tag sets in Flare. In fact, you can create custom condition tag sets in Flare that can be useful when you generate DITA output from Flare. You simply need to make sure that the condition tag sets follow the established DITA naming conventions for those attributes: condition tag sets can be named "audience," "product," "platform," "props," and "otherprops." When you generate the output, the condition tag sets are converted to the appropriate DITA attributes.

WHAT'S NEXT?

Now that you have added a new condition tag set, you can create condition tags for it. See Creating Condition Tags.