Applying and Removing Conditions

After you create condition tags in a project, you can apply them to your content. You can also remove a condition from content.

Permission Required?

Editing content and project files is an activity available to users with the Author status. By default, users with Author status have the following permissions set:

  • If this is deselected, then viewing files in a read-only mode is allowed. On the left side of the page, the Files vertical three-dot menu is not available.

  • If this is deselected, the XHTML in the Code view is read-only.

    Editing code is regarded as a capability for an advanced user. If not done properly, the code can become malformed quickly. Administrators can prevent users from editing the code by deselecting the Edit Code permission.

For more information about permissions, see Setting User Permissions or Setting Team Permissions.

How to Apply a Condition to Content

  1. Open a project, and select the Files tab at the top.

  2. On the left, navigate to a topic or snippet file. The file contents display on the right.

  3. In the upper-right of the Content Editor, click Edit.

  4. In the Content Editor, highlight or select the content to which you want to apply a condition. You can also click tags in the info bar to select certain blocks of content (see Clickable Tags).

  5. From the Content Editor's local toolbar, click Apply Conditions button.

  6. On the left, select the appropriate condition set.

  7. On the right, select the condition you want to apply.

  8. (Optional) If you are applying a condition to a link, you have access to a couple of other Exclude Action options—Remove and Unbind. The Unbind option can be useful under certain circumstances if you are setting a condition on a link. See Using Conditions to Unbind Links.

  9. Click Apply.

If the animation below is cut off, you can see the complete animation by clicking the link under it to open the full topic.

Animated gif illustrating how to apply conditions.

How to Remove a Condition From Content

  1. Open a project, and select the Files tab at the top.

  2. On the left, navigate to a topic or snippet file. The file contents display on the right.

  3. In the upper-right of the Content Editor, click Edit.

  4. In the Content Editor, highlight or select the content to which a condition has been applied. You can also click tags in the info bar to select certain blocks of content (see Clickable Tags).

  5. From the Content Editor's local toolbar, click Apply Conditions button.

  6. On the left, select the appropriate condition set.

  7. On the right, select the condition you want to unbind from that content, removing the check mark.

  8. Click Apply.

What’s Noteworthy?

Note You can tell whether certain content has one or more condition tags applied to it by clicking Show Conditions button in the toolbar. See Showing or Hiding Applied Conditions.

Note Applying conditions is available only for authors, and only in the Content Editor accessed from the project's Files page (see Authoring and Files). It is not available in the editor that is used for topic reviews.

Note For more information about conditions, see the Flare online Help.