MadCap Central（英語版） リリース

• Build Projects Directly in Central
  • Take another step toward content independence by creating projects directly within Central.
  • Cloud-Based Project Creation: Start and manage projects in Central.
  • Built-in tools: Author, design, and build outputs all within Central.
• Streamline Content Reuse with Proxies
  • Automatically apply consistent elements, like navigation and headers, across multiple topics and outputs.
  • Flexible Content Structuring: Insert proxies into templates, topics, and snippets for adaptable outputs.
  • Customizable Properties: Easily add proxies and adjust their settings for tailored results.

Maintain Consistent Branding Across Outputs - Central’s enhanced Branding Editor allows you to manage branding properties with real-time CSS previews and expanded interface options, ensuring consistency across all outputs.  

• Live CSS Preview: Changes are displayed dynamically in real-time, ensuring accuracy before finalizing your styles.
• Effortless Branding Transfer: Transfer branding elements while previewing existing templates.
• Preserve Custom CSS: Retain your custom rules within branding files for consistent branding across projects.
• WYSIWYG and Code View: Manage properties for new and existing branding stylesheets with an intuitive interface and flexible controls.

Easily Create & Deliver Clean XHTML and PowerPoint Presentations - Central’s enhanced target editor allows you to create both Clean XHTML and PowerPoint outputs, allowing you to generate and manage even more formats directly in the cloud.

• Centralized Target Creation: Add and manage Clean XHTML and PowerPoint outputs within Central’s cloud-based editors, without switching tools.
• Presentation-Ready Slides: Quickly generate PowerPoint files from your existing content for immediate use.
• Clean XHTML Output: Create lightweight, standards-compliant HTML files.

Improve Workflow Efficiency with Integrated Image Property Controls - The enhanced Edit Image Dialog provides advanced controls for adjusting image properties like alt text, width, and height, directly within Central.

• Accessibility and Compliance: Modify alt text, width, and height to ensure content meets accessibility standards.
• Real-Time Adjustments: Make quick, on-the-fly edits to image properties, keeping content production fast and accurate.

Take full control of translations directly from Central - Simplify the process of managing multilingual content by handling every step - creating translation packages, reviewing, approving and publishing directly within Central:

• Create and Manage Translations: Package, send and receive translation projects directly from Central.
• Collaborate Seamlessly: Work with MadTranslations or your preferred third-party translator to ensure accurate, timely translations. MadTranslations also eliminates the need for external tools or processes.
• Monitor and Control Translation Progress: Track and update status, use translation branches to manage and review translations, before publishing high-quality content in every language.
• Build Multilingual Outputs Easily: Publish single-language or multilingual outputs from Central, streamlining global content delivery.
• Support Bi-Directional Languages: Manage right-to-left and left-to-right text, ensuring smooth content creation for all languages.

AICPA SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance:

• MadCap Flare and Central are now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, highlighting our dedication to the highest standards of data protection and security for customers. This prestigious certification confirms that MadCap implemented and adhere to strict protocols to safeguard your information, ensuring it's secure, available, and confidential at all times.

Simplified Publishing and Efficient Branching in the Cloud

• Simplify Content Publishing with MadCap Central's Cloud-Based Target Editor
  • Add and Edit Targets: Create new HTML5 and PDF target files and edit common settings directly in Central.
  • Copy Existing Settings: Leverage settings from existing targets to simplify the setup process.
  • Ensure Consistency: Configure settings to align outputs with brand guidelines effortlessly.
  • Boost Efficiency: Manage different output types efficiently from the cloud, reducing the need to switch between tools.
• Develop Content Efficiently with Branching Support in Checklists - Select a branch when creating new topic checklists. Improve project management by isolating drafts from released projects.
  • Enhance Focus: Manage tasks for different features or versions separately, reducing confusion and improving workflow.
  • Track Progress: Easily monitor tasks specific to each project branch, ensuring nothing is overlooked.
  • Organize Development Content: Keep draft content separate from published content, making updates and management straightforward.
• Improved Analytics - Analytics now offers better performance, faster load times, and even more advanced filter options for tailored data insights.
  • Get Immediate Insights: Start with the most relevant data at a glance. Display immediate insights into your recent performance without overwhelming all-time data.
  • Improve Workflow Performance: Experience faster load times and smoother performance. Spend less time waiting and more time analyzing your data.
  • Tailor Data Analysis: Gain more control over your data with enhanced filter options. Focus on the metrics that matter most to you.

Effortless Cloud-Based Authoring, Content Creation, Customization, and Management

• Centralize Styling in Central's Cloud-based Branding Editor - Customize your project with new branding stylesheets, including colors, fonts, and hero images, ensuring a consistent look and feel.
  • Set common branding elements (logos, hero images, colors, and fonts) for quick brand integration.
  • Achieve brand consistency effortlessly with dynamic customization options.
  • Align output effortlessly to match organizational branding guidelines.
  • Elevate brand identity through intuitive and centralized controls.
  • Import settings from existing stylesheets.
• Improved capabilities AI Assist with OpenAI GPT-4o - The latest upgrade to AI Assist in Central, powered by GPT-4o, offers faster, smarter interactions across text, voice, and vision. Translate content, learn about complex subjects, and get personalized recommendations effortlessly. Plus, get ready for natural, real-time voice conversations and live video interactions.

Boost Content Creation and Management with Enhancements to the Content Editor

• Insert and Edit Variables - Seamlessly insert variables and apply them across all your topics, enhancing content control, authoring efficiency, and maximizing reuse.
• Effortlessly Create, Edit, and Modify Snippets - Gain control with the ability to effortlessly insert and reuse snippets across multiple topics. Streamline content updates and easily replace units of information by inserting, opening and editing snippets directly from within their context, enabling both authors and subject matter experts to make inline modifications.
• Create Interactive Dropdowns for Streamlined Exploration - Transform your content into an interactive journey with dynamic and interactive dropdowns, enabling users to tailor their exploration of complex information, ensuring a cleaner, engaging, and personalized reading experience.
• Improved File Handling and Load Performance
  • Enhanced File Management: Benefit from increased file size limits and intuitive warnings to prevent bottlenecks in the review process.
  • Streamlined Review and Editing: Avoid common file size issues with proactive alerts.

Conditions Editor

• Authors can add, create, and edit conditions in the Conditions Editor.
• Make changes to the conditions within a set.
• Advanced ability to edit XML code directly for relevant condition properties.

Variables Editor

• Authors can create and edit different variable types (i.e., Text, Date/Time) in the Variables Editor.
• Ability to add multiple definitions to a variable.
• Make changes to variables within a set.
• Advanced ability to edit XML code directly for relevant variable properties.

GPT-4o for AI Assist

• New ChatGPT model available in AI Assist when integrating with Central.
• Provides GPT-4-level intelligence, but is faster.
• Improves capabilities across text, voice, and vision.

• Content Editor Enhancements
  • Insert and Edit Variables - Seamlessly insert variables and apply them across all your topics, enhancing content control, authoring efficiency, and maximizing reuse.
  • Effortlessly Create, Edit, and Modify Snippets - Added the ability to effortlessly insert and reuse snippets across multiple topics. Streamline content updates and easily replace units of information by inserting, opening and editing snippets directly from within their context, enabling both authors and subject matter experts to make inline modifications.
  • Create Interactive Dropdowns for Streamlined Exploration - Transform your content with dynamic and interactive dropdowns, enabling users to tailor their exploration of complex information, ensuring a cleaner, engaging, and personalized reading experience.
  • Improved File Handling and Load Performance:
    • Enhanced File Management: Benefit from increased file size limits and intuitive warnings to prevent bottlenecks in the review process.
    • Streamlined Review and Editing: Avoid common file size issues with proactive.