Hello Hamish,

What a great document. You've explained the situation very well. I've been thinking about this for 2 days and I probably would have never figured this out.

I appreciate your posting this document.

Hi Hamish,

Great document. Very helpful indeed. I am curious though as to how multiple products with multiple releases might work. For example, we have about 9 products all with there own release numbers. So we would have Release 11.7 & 11.8 with priority 1 & 2 and Release 10.3 & 10.4 with priority 1 & 2 and so on. Do you know if they would work independently of each other?

Hi Hamish,

I have a couple of clients using this solution, and for the most part it's working pretty well. However, one of them has a question about localization using this approach.

Their issue is that they need to be able to maintain the variant structure in their target libraries. But since the latest release is always the primary object, it's always going to overwrite the previous translated object (which should now map to a variant with a different object code in the source library).

Have you encountered this scenario? Do you have any thoughts on how to work around this?

The only approaches I can think of are highly manual: copying content from topic to topic in each target library as variants are updated, or using XML publishing to create archives for each release (again in every target library).

Am I making sense?

Thanks for sharing these. We've been having difficulty figuring out Author-it so far.

First of all thanks a lot for the informative and useful information. I am very interested in all information about software so it was quite interesting and even useful to read this your post about this subject. The document which you have shared for us is really useful and I am so glad that I have found this your post. Well I will definitely bookmark your website because I see that your website is full of good information about various subjects. Thanks a lot one more time for the great post and I will be waiting for more great articles from you in the nearest future. Regards, Kevin Patton.

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Thanx, there always was a problem with documentation. Especialy while editing essay after classes.

Interesting! I've never heard about author-it varients.