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Content Management
Branching
Check-in/check-out: dynamic
Check-in/check-out: file (may need separate app)
Check-in/check-out: project
Merging files
Permissions: folders
Permissions: groups
Permissions: role-based
Permissions: users
Project file database
Reports
Rollback
Separation of content and presentation (ad hoc formatting allowed)
Separation of content and presentation (no ad hoc formatting allowed)
Status tracking
User permissions (security)
Version control
Version control: maintenance
View relationships between non-topic and topic objects in a project
View relationships between topics in a project
Context-sensitive Help
Aliasing
API
Automatic mapping of topics
Context-sensitive Help: .NET
Context-sensitive Help: existing (other) applications
Context-sensitive Help: Web/Mac/*nix applications
Context-sensitive Help: Windows applications
Edit map numbers by topic
Map number/context ID/map ID editor
Customizing the Outputs
Automatic navigational links (HTML): Breadcrumbs
Automatic navigational links (HTML): Browse sequences
Automatic navigational links (HTML): FAQs (link or button)
Automatic navigational links (HTML): Index (link to Index in topic)
Automatic navigational links (HTML): Sections (parent/children/sibling topic links)
Automatic navigational links (HTML): TOC (link to Contents in topic)
Built-in feedback form
Command line publishing
Customizable layouts (output): Cascading Style Sheets
Customizable layouts (output): HTML templates
Customizable layouts (output): PDF template
Customizable layouts (output): WinHelp styles
Customizable layouts (output): Word templates
Customizable layouts (output): XSL or XL-FO
Custom title page for print
Display
Glossary
Margin notes
Master page
Output templates: customizable
Output templates: designer or wizard
Output templates: localized
Permission-based access
Search in output: CGI (may require separate CGI script)
Search in output: DHTML
Search in output: Natural
Synonym support in search (HTML-based Help)
User-Customizable: Home page
User-Customizable: Search
Database and Database Management
Content database: DB2
Content database: JDBC-compliant
Content database: JET
Content database: MSDE
Content database: MYSQL
Content database: SQL
Content database: SQL Express
Content database: XML
Database maintenance
Offline
Re-synch database
Development Environment
Adobe FrameMaker
Editor: built-in word processor (not specified elsewhere in this category)
Editor: server-based
Editor: Web-based
HTML: any editor (for example, Dreamweaver, CSE HTML Pro, etc.)
HTML: built-in editor
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word 2007
None (publishes existing documents)
XML: any editor (for example, XMetaL)
XML: any schema or DTD
XML: built-in editor
XML: specific schema or DTD
Development Features
Automatic content and screenshots from Microsoft Access applications
Automatic content and screenshots from Visual Basic 6.0 applications
Automatic content and screenshots from Visual Studio 2003/2005 applications
Automatic documentation from .NET assemblies
Code Editor
Code Editor (with Intellisense)
Color selection tool
CSS: Multiple applied to topics
CSS Editor (or ability to edit CSS style definitions)
Fonts: create list of favorites
Frames (HTML) editor
Full-text search (across projects)
HTML Help Controls
Metadata: allowed in development
Metadata: fields in development
Metadata: in output
Multi-authoring
Page Map
Project templates
Scripting after publication
Scripting in application (for example, macros)
Structured authoring: enforced logically (headings assigned automatically)
Structured authoring: enforced technically (through DTD/schema/application)
Topic templates: built-in
Topic templates: customizable
Use regular expressions in Find and Replace
Visual structure bars
WYSIOP editor
Development Features - Extras
Additional modules available
Author Comments
Build tags: keywords
Build tags: other project files
Build tags: topics
Build tags: unnecessary; handled by application
Collapsible sections
Customize tool GUI (personalize)
Custom mark-up language
FAQ creation template
Flexible licensing
Management: document
Management: project
Manage recent files list
Menu/Toolbars: Dreamweaver
Menu/Toolbars: FrameMaker
Menu/Toolbars: FrontPage
Menu/Toolbars: Microsoft Word
Multiple glossaries per project
Multiple indexes per project
Multiple TOCs per project
Real-time publishing
Remote access
Roadmap available (upcoming features)
Development Platform
MojoPac
Windows Vista
History
Edit/audit history
History maintenance
History settings (Audit trail)
Hyperlinks and Cross-references
ALinks (conceptual links)
Cross-reference: PDF (output direct from tool)
Cross-references: Frame output
Cross-references: Word output
DHTML: drop-down hotspots
DHTML: inline hotspots
DHTML: screenshot hotspots
Formatted popups
Jumps
Jumps to files
Jumps to secondary windows
KLinks (keyword links)
Test: during development
Text-only popups: Dot Net Help
Text-only popups: HTML Help
Text-only popups: WebHelp
Topic title and hotspot synchronization
URLs
Images
Imagemap/SHED editor (built-in)
Insert Flash Movie in Word
Movie-making application: built-in
Movie-making application: separate but integrated
Output controlled by settings
Resize within editor
Resize with template
Screen capture application: built-in
Screen capture application: separated but integrated
Import Content From ...
Adobe FrameMaker (.book)
Adobe FrameMaker (.fm)
Adobe FrameMaker (.mif)
ForeHelp projects
HTML files
HTML Help file (.chm)
HTML Help Project (.hhp)
Microsoft Sandcastle
Microsoft Word
RoboHelp for Word projects
RoboHelp HTML projects
RTF (from Word)
RTF (tagged for WinHelp)
Text files
WinHelp Help file (.hlp)
WinHelp Project (.hpj)
XML: built-in schema
XML: DITA
XML: DocBook
Import Features
Batch import
Context IDs (map IDs) in .h/.hh/.hm file
Context IDs (map IDs) in project
Generate images for anchored frames (FrameMaker)
Import profiles
Import rules
Link imported source files to project
Map inline styles to CSS styles
Map styles from HTML files
Map styles from Word or FrameMaker files
Preserve source styles
Reference documents (edited in original application)
Saved settings for referenced files
Split imported docs: character count
Split imported docs: style
Localization and Translation
Customizable language skins
Development support (can have multiple languages within the project)
External translation support
External translation support: generate XML file
External translation support: SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
Localized interface
Select language for spell check
Support for: double-byte languages
Support for: RTL (right-to-left languages)
Support for: single-byte languages
Support for: UNICODE
Track localization process within project
Translation memory: built-in
Translation memory: integrated
Outputs
DHTML (HTML, CSS, + JavaScript)
DITA
DocBook
DotNet Help (proprietary)
eBook
FrameMaker (.book)
FrameMaker (.fm)
HTML-based Help (IE7 compatible)
HTML-based Help (possibly named)
HTML 4.x
HTML Help 1.x
JavaHelp 1.x
JavaHelp 2.x
KeyHelp
MS Help 2 (Visual Studio .NET)
MSReader
Oracle Help
Palm Reader
PDF (Microsoft Word 2007 .pdf)
PDF (Portable Document Format)
PDF (Unicode)
Print (Microsoft Word .doc)
Print (Microsoft Word 2007 .docx)
RTF (Rich Text Format)
Slide Presentations
Vista Help (expected)
WinHelp 4
XHTML 1.x
XML (Microsoft Word 2007 .xps)
XML (validated against built-in schema)
XML + CSS
XML + XSL
XML transforms (.NET)
XML transforms (XSLT)
Reusable Content Across Projects
Alias files (content-sensitive Help)
Browse Sequences
Character
Conditions/conditional tag sets
Dictionaries
File
Glossary / Glossary Objects
Graphics
Header file (for context-sensitive Help)
Hyperlinks
Imported files
Index/index objects
Index entries
Paragraph
Publishing destinations
Search filter sets
Skins/layout design
Snippets
Snippets (programmable)
Targets
Templates: external
Templates: internal
TOC/TOC objects
Topic/topic objects
Variables/variable sets: used in development
Variables/variable sets: used in output templates
Reusable Content Within Projects
Character
Conditions/conditional tag sets
File
Frame text inset
Graphics
Hyperlinks
Index entries
Paragraph
Reusable formatted chunks of content
Templates: external
Templates: internal
TOC/TOC objects
Topic/topic objects
Single-sourcing Features
Automatic mini-TOCs for sections
Automatic Related Topics/See Also links
Conditional content: flags or tags
Conditional content: inclusion/exclusion
Conditional content: styles
Conditional output variables
Embedded topics (nesting topics)
Modular Help
Variables, development: file object
Variables, development: list of values
Variables, development: system
Variables, development: text
Variables: used in output templates
Support
Email list: private: (must register)
Email list: public
Email support (free)
Email support (paid)
Knowledge Base
Newsgroup/user forums
RSS feeds
Submission/contact form
Subscription plan
Support: incident
Support: limited during evaluation
Support: unlimited during evaluation (typically email)
Telephone support: free (may be limited)
Telephone support: paid
Training: from independents (consultants and trainers)
Training: from vendor
Trial (evaluation) available: crippled development
Trial (evaluation) available: crippled output
Trial (evaluation) available: time limit
System Administration
Clear locks
Customize HAT GUI
Define supported languages
Maintenance: groups
Maintenance: users
Search engine tuning
Separate application (may be named)
Table Editor
Drag-and-drop columns
Drag-and-drop rows
Table properties
Table Styles editor
Web Standards and Accessibility
Accessible application (http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php)
Accessible output: Priority 1
Accessible output: Priority 2
Accessible output: Priority 3
Accessible PDF files (tagged)
Valid (W3C) CSS
Valid (W3C) HTML output
Workflow
Workflow (additional module)
Workflow (built-in)
Workflow: automatic
Workflow: manual
Workflow: setup (may require separate app)