Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

[rebecca officer]

Hi Robert
 
Thanks for discussing this - I really appreciate it.
 
Our company produces half a dozen different hardware products with similar software feature sets. There's a lot of feature overlap. And we do new software releases at least annually. We've got one set of source FM files, and we use conditional text to build a document set for each product at each new release. Without conditional text, we'd have to maintain multiple similar copies of FM files, which would be an error-rich nightmare. Many of the differences are at the word or sentence level, but we could rewrite them into separate paragraphs if we have to. 
 
I think, if we go to Confluence, we'll need to create one wiki space per product (per release), so we can keep delivering product-specific info. That would mean maintaining multiple similar copies, unless we can reuse content in multiple spaces. So I'm trying to work out what the Confluence model is for reusing content, and how we could get there from FM.
 
Cheers
Rebecca

>>> Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> 28/11/12 14:31 >>>
Confluence excerpts are comparable to FrameMaker text insets, not
conditional text.

What are you using conditional text for? Few of the things I've used
it for in FrameMaker make any sense in a wiki.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM, rebecca officer
<rebecca.officer at alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote:
> Oops, I meant "Confluence excerpts".
> https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/biz.artemissoftware.confluence.multiexcerpt.MultiExcerptMacro
>
> So here's my question in a form that might make sense:
>
> Am I right that at the moment, the best FM-to-Confluence flow would be:
> 1) use MIF2Go to export Confluence 4 XHTML from FM
> 2) import the output into Confluence one page at a time
> 3) manually muck with each page to convert the conditional text to
> Confluence excerpts?
>
> If there's an easier flow for converting conditional-text-rich FM files into
> Confluence, I'd really appreciate someone describing it.

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