Types of Content Reuse

Topic reuse - Reuse Topics by adding them to different publications. You can also embed one topic inside another topic as a subsection.

Publication reuse - Create a Parent Publication by adding it to a main publication. For example, if you have a series of user guides, you can publish them all as one combined output by adding them to a single publication.

Structure reuse - Reuse Forks. For example, if you have a "chapter" that consists of a main topic and several sub-topics, you can reuse the entire "chapter".

Text fragment reuse - Every paragraph that you create is stored in a database and is available for reuse. This means that you can Reuse Text Fragments, Reuse List Items, steps in procedures and other types of block element without prior planning. For example, if you create a para element and add "Select Save" as the text, you can reuse that same paragraph everywhere that you need the "Select Save" text to appear.

Informal topic reuse - Informal topics are a way of grouping different types of elements as reusable content, for example, two paragraphs and an image. To reuse a group of elements, you can Create an Informal Topic and import it to any of your "regular" topics.

Admonition reuse - You can Reuse Admonitions to use in your topics.

Variables - You can reuse single words or phrases by using Variables. First, you create variable sets that contain the words and the text that you want to use for those words. Then you can insert these variables in your topics. Paligo has support for several types of variables, plain text variables, image variables, XML variables, and translatable variables. There are also Dynamic Text Variables, which can output today's date and similar content.

Filtering / Profiling - Filtering / Profiling makes it possible to make content more reusable by applying filtering (like the element attributes xinfo:product or xinfo:market) on parts of it, so that the topic becomes reusable in multiple context. With variable sets, it is possible to insert a variable that changes value according to chosen market or product.

Filtering is sometimes traditionally called "conditional text", but it applies to more than just text, it can be any kind of content, including images, videos and so on. This is often used when information is reused between different products or markets, for example technical specifications, to change data depending on model, change images or hide information for certain markets or models.