• Control Topic Elements
  • Control Topic Elements
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  • The Topic Editor provides several tools for controlling which bubble text, frames, screenshots, and action areas appear in published content. The following summary includes a brief description of each tool and the resulting output.
  • See the corresponding help topic for each feature in the
  • Note:
  • Topic Editor
  • Specify the Play Mode for Custom Text
  • Specify the Play Mode for Custom Text
  • This option affects Player, Presentation, and document output.
  • Example: You have two paragraphs in a frame bubble. You want the first paragraph to appear in the Player, but do not want it to appear in Do It! playback or the Job Aid. To control the output for the paragraphs, you select the first paragraph in the bubble and enable See It/Try It! modes and disable Do It! mode. When publishing, make sure that Do It! is selected as the Job Aid text mode.
  • Control Text for Player and Print Output
  • Control Text for Player and Print Output
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  • ffects Player, Presentation, and document output.
  • Example: You have two similar notes in a frame; one is worded for onscreen viewing in the Player and the other worded for document output in the Training Guide. Both notes are marked for See It/Try It! modes. To control which note paragraph is included in which output, you select each note and enable the desired output and deselect the other output. However, when publishing documents, make sure that your text mode is set to the same play mode as the custom text.
  • Note that using this option overrules other frame and play mode controls during publishing. See
  • Hide a Frame for a Play Mode
  • Hide a Frame for a Play Mode
  • This option affects Player, Presentation, and document output.
  • Example: You have recorded a lengthy task. In Know It? mode, you want to test competency for part of the process only, for instance the first 10 frames. To exclude the remaining frames from appearing in Know It? mode, you deselect Know It? in the Show In list for each excluded frame.
  • Hide the Bubble
  • Hide the Bubble
  • This option affects Player and Presentation output.
  • Disable the Action Area
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  • You can hide the display of an action area (the marquee) on a frame when playing a topic in the Player. This feature is often used in conjunction with hiding the bubble for creating and running a slide-like presentation.
  • Disable the Action Area
  • This option affects Player and Presentation output.
  • Template text does not appear for action frames in Know It? mode, except for string inputs (action to enter text). Hiding the template text allows you to test for competency. However, there may be steps in the process for which you do not want to penalize the user for not knowing how to perform the step; for instance, if a step is very specific to the example used. In this situation, you would want to display the template text. See
  • Display Template Text in Know It? mode
  • Display Template Text in Know It? mode
  • This option affects Player output only.
  • Use Screenshot Publishing
  • Use Screenshot Publishing
  • This option affects document output only.