Variables

A variable is a small piece of plain text or auto-generated content that can be edited in one place but used in many places throughout your project. Variables are especially useful for text that might change frequently, such as version numbers and dates.

How Variables Might Look in the Source File

How Variables Might Look in the Output

Note Inserting variables is available only for authors, and only in the Content Editor accessed from the project's Files page (see Step 2: Authoring and Files). It is not available in the editor that is used for topic reviews.

Note There are many more uses for variables in a project besides just inserting them into topics and snippets. For more information, see the Flare online Help.