Create an Informal Topic
The Informal topic makes it possible to reuse a collection of elements. For example, if you want to reuse a paragraph and an image together, they can be combined in an informal topic.
An informal topic is not a standalone component like a regular topic and must therefore be part of another component or topic. This means you can combine informal topics as "children" inside a "parent" informal topic. You can reuse the informal topic in as many regular topics as needed.
Basically, an informal topic is an element, or a collection of elements that by themselves don't constitute an entire topic. Some examples of informal topics could be:
a table (e.g. a table with software requirements)
a paragraph (e.g. a copyright notice)
an admonition (e.g. a warning about a security risk)
a collection of procedure steps (e.g. containing a set of steps that are common to multiple procedures)
This instructional video goes into more depth about informal topics (timestamp 3:15).
To preview an informal topic, you have to insert it into a regular topic, see Insert Component.
Tip
Use the role attribute called reuse-range to reuse procedure steps or list items, see Reuse a Sequence of List Items.
To create an informal topic:
Select the Dotted Menu (...) for the folder where the informal topic is to be stored.
Select Create Content.
Enter a name for the informal topic.
Select the checkbox for Informal topic.
Choose the Language(s) to support.
Select the checkbox Open in editor.
Select OK.
Add your content the same way that you add content to a regular topic.
Select Save.
The informal topic is now ready to be inserted in regular topics.