Collaborative TOC Editor

You might ask if you can work collaboratively in the TOC Editor. The answer is yes, you can work collaboratively! And because working with a TOC for output is such a big part of authoring a project, collaborative editing is a major benefit for teams that need to share a TOC. See Collaborative Authoring.

Pros

The Flare Online TOC Editor supports collaborative editing in a user-friendly user interface.

Since the TOC Editor supports collaborative authoring it promotes a best practice to edit TOCs in Flare Online within the same source control branch. Multiple authors can open the same editor, make changes, and retain all sets of updates when done.

Collaborative editing allows teams to avoid conflicts as much as possible when working with the same TOC file. It reduces the need for time-consuming workarounds such as: (1) communicating with other authors to make sure nobody else is working in a particular TOC until you’re done making and pushing your changes in it; (2) having multiple TOCs, with only one author working in each, and then merging those multiple TOCs into one big TOC later; (3) the author who encounters a conflict would pull changes from the other person and then redo his or her own changes manually.

Cons

The Flare Online TOC Editor provides basic features to create and construct the TOC, but for more advanced TOC features you might need to use the Flare Desktop product. For example, since you cannot apply page layouts to TOC entries in Flare Online, PDF output might appear basic. See the Flare Desktop Help system.

At this time, there is no way to drag and drop topics from the Files tree Content folder to the TOC Editor, but you can drag and drop topics within the editor itself.