Be in Control of Reused and Single-Sourced Components While Writing in Full Documents

Writing in full documents is preferred by most authors who are not used to component-based content. And with the Sync Components feature in Dx4, this is now possible to do this in a component-based solution – without all the manual work of replicating the changes in components. You can simply use the updated full document to automate the updating of components.But what do you do when parts of the document are reused across multiple documents? Do you want to risk the updating of content messing with already approved content in other documents? Of course not!That is why the Sync Components feature comes with flexible synchronization that allows you to protect any topic in approved state from unwanted changes. Let’s go over how to approve reused components and ensure that they are not updated when syncing components from a Compound Document. We will start with three document models that have a few components that are reused across all documents, and some that are specific to each document. I’m doing set of small country specific manuals for an international bank. Let’s focus on the documents for Australia, Ireland and the USA. Components in a red frames are reused across all three documents. They are centrally authored and approved before the country specific versions will be authored. The two remaining components in each manual are country specific. Let’s start out making sure that single sourced components are correct. We will have them reviewed and approved. In DxNavigator I can approve an individual component by right-click it and selecting Approve Node. Once approved, the component icon will appear with a green checkmark in...