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Analysis
- File backup
- More robust version available (costs extra)
- Report problems and suggestions
- Run reports
- Test DotNetHelp links
- Test HTML-based Help links
- Test underlying HTML
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)
- Variants
- 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: Test Dot Net output links internally.
- Context-sensitive Help: Web/Mac/*nix applications
- Context-sensitive Help: Windows applications
- Edit map numbers by topic
- Embedded Help
- Map Help topics to interface visually
- 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)
- Automatic navigational links: Mini-TOC for print, online, or both
- Batch Build
- Batch Build and Publish
- Batch Publish
- 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
- Customizable layouts: Print configuration
- Custom title page for print
- Display
- File extensions: customized for HTML-based Help output
- Glossary
- Hyphenation control (print)
- Margin notes
- Master page
- Master TOC
- Mobile output skin editor
- Output templates: customizable
- Output templates: designer or wizard
- Output templates: localized
- Permission-based access
- Publishing Profiles / Conditional Output
- Scheduling
- 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
- Widow/orphan control
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
- Microsoft Word 2010
- 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)
- Code Editor: Corrects invalid HTML
- Code Editor: Validates against schema
- Color selection tool
- CSS, Master: Project and target
- CSS: Multiple applied to topics
- CSS Editor (or ability to edit CSS style definitions)
- Files: Open with drag-and-drop
- 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
- Paste text (specify formatting)
- Project templates
- Pseudo-classes for drop-caps
- Scripting after publication
- Scripting in application (for example, macros)
- Structured authoring: enforced logically (headings assigned automatically)
- Structured authoring: enforced technically (through DTD/schema/application)
- Topics: Lock areas against editing
- 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
- Build tags; apply custom tags (variant)
- Build tags; unnecessary handled by creating different books
- Customize tool GUI (personalize)
- Custom mark-up language
- FAQ creation template
- Flexible licensing
- Link Viewer
- Management: document
- Management: project
- Manage recent files list
- Menu/Toolbars: Dreamweaver
- Menu/Toolbars: FrameMaker
- Menu/Toolbars: FrontPage
- Menu/Toolbars: Microsoft Word
- Mobile Simulator
- Multiple glossaries per project
- Multiple indexes per project
- Multiple TOC: per project
- Object Variants (multiple variations)
- Real-time publishing
- Recently used styles list
- Remote access
- Roadmap available (upcoming features)
- TOC: Master at project and target level
- Topic reviews and contributions
Development Platform
- MojoPac
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP
History
- Edit/audit history
- History maintenance
- History settings (Audit trail)
- Topic backup
Hyperlinks and Cross-references
- ALinks (conceptual links)
- Content-sensitive cross-references
- 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
- Drag-and-drop hyperlinks
- 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
- Add with drag-and-drop
- 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 style
- Resize with template
- Screen capture application: built-in
- Screen capture application: separated but integrated
- Support vector graphics
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
- FrameMaker markers
- Generate images for anchored frames (FrameMaker)
- Import profiles
- Import rules
- Link imported source files to project
- Map formatted FrameMaker tables to table styles
- 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
Index
- Automatic indexing: hyperlink hotspot text
- Automatic indexing: topic titles
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
- Adobe AIR output: Application
- Adobe AIR Single Source Layout
- DHTML (HTML, CSS, + JavaScript)
- DITA
- DocBook
- DotNet Help (proprietary)
- eBook
- Eclipse Help
- ePub format
- FlashHelp
- FrameMaker (.book)
- FrameMaker (.fm)
- HTML-based Help (IE7 compatible)
- HTML-based Help (possibly named)
- HTML-based Help (server based)
- HTML-based Help AIR
- HTML 4.x
- HTML Help 1.x
- JavaHelp 1.x
- JavaHelp 2.x
- KeyHelp
- Microsoft Help System
- Mobile Output
- 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
- WinHelp 4
- XHTML 1.x
- XHTML1.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/Multi-project Features
- 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
- Project settings
- Publishing destinations
- Reusable formatted chunks of content
- Reusable formatted chunks of content (programmable)
- Search filter sets
- Skins/layout design
- 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
- Trial-to-full version: insert serial number/key.
- Trial-to-full version: reinstall
System Administration
- Clear locks
- Customize HAT GUI
- Define supported languages
- Integration with Active Directory
- Integration with SharePoint
- Maintenance: groups
- Maintenance: users
- Search engine tuning
- Separate application (may be named)
Table Editor
- Change text direction in a cell
- Drag-and-drop columns
- Drag-and-drop rows
- Lock Table
- Page breaks on table rows
- Preformatted quick tables
- 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)
- Built-in W3C code validator:
- Valid (W3C) CSS
- Valid (W3C) HTML output
- Validate Strict XHTML
Workflow
- Automatic
- Manual
- Setup (may require separate app)
- Workflow (additional module)
- Workflow (built-in)

Find Any Tools with Selected Features

Analysis

Content Management

Context-sensitive Help

Customizing the Outputs

Database and Database Management

Development Environment

Development Features

Development Features - Extras

Development Platform

History

Hyperlinks and Cross-references

Images

Import Content From ...

Import Features

Index

Localization and Translation

Outputs

Reusable Content Across Projects/Multi-project Features

Reusable Content Within Projects

Single-sourcing Features

Support

System Administration

Table Editor

Web Standards and Accessibility

Workflow