Welcome on board
Are you new to Fluid Topics? Welcome on board!
To introduce the solution and its capabilities, let's begin with this:
We will present the 4 pillars of Fluid Topics:
- Find & View
- Combine & Publish
- Craft & Share
- Measure & Analyze
Find and View
The Turnkey portal, the search engine and the Reader Page are the solution's central user-facing components.
Depending on whether or not you are logged in, and according to your role, you will be able to:
- use the powerful semantic search engine to find what you are looking for
- use facets to filter your search results
- navigate results and documents
- administrate most aspects of your tenant
This page offers a quick presentation of the Turnkey Portal.
The Fluid Topics User Guide provides essential information about the following:
Combine and Publish
You will have a look at the invisible side of Fluid Topics: the Knowledge Hub, Publishing and Metadata.
You need to be logged in and assigned the appropriate user roles in order to:
- Publish structured or unstructured content
- Add, align, modify, enrich and clean metadata
- Create automatic links between documents
- Create and manage security and access rights
- Integrate Fluid Topics in your own applications, CRM, support tools and so on
- Fluid Topics Content Publishing
- Enrich and Clean Beginner
- Enrich and Clean Advanced
- Dynamic Suggestions (versions up to 3.5), Dynamic Suggestions (v3.6), Related Links (v3.7)
- Fluid Topics Security Management
- How to use Fluid Topics API
This page offers a quick presentation of the Knowledge Hub.
Explore key documentation:
Here are the technical notes dedicated to content upload:
Dive deeper with a large selection of technical notes dedicated to content processing.
Craft and Share
You will discover the best way to engage your customers and allow them to make your content their own.
You need to be logged in to access most features, since they are "user account dependant." Some examples include:
- Bookmark content
- Save a search
- Create and manage Personal Books
- Create and manage a set of documents with Collections
- Share content with URL Deep Links
- Fluid Topics Bookmarks
- Fluid Topics Scope and Search options (versions up to and including 3.6)
- Saved Searches (versions starting with 3.7)
- Fluid Topics Personal Books
- Fluid Topics Collections
- Deep link to official content
- Deep link to Author-It Publication
- Deep link to Author-It Topic
- Deep link to Dita Book
- Deep link to Dita Topic
- Deep link to FTML Book
- Deep link to FTML Topic
- Deep link to Unstructured Documents
This page offers more information about how your end users can reap the most benefit from your content.
The Fluid Topics User Guide provides essential information about the following:
Share the URL of a document:
There are several ways to share topics, books and unstructured documents.
Here are a few how-to guides, listed by content type:
You may need a link which remains stable over time. In this case, Deep Links are created for you:
Measure and Analyze
With Fluid Topics, you can know precisely how your end users are interacting with your documentation.
Analytics are available for users with the "Analytics user" or "Admin" roles.
With Analytics, you have access to:
- A dashboard to monitor Fluid Topics activity
- A Hit Parade showing top searched words
- Insight into which documents users are consulting
- Much more to come
This page offers more information about Analytics.
The Analytics Technical Note can help you here
The Analytics menu can be accessed by clicking on the icon between "Administration" and "My Account" at the top right of the Turnkey Portal's home page.
Some useful links
This is only the beginning of Fluid Topics. If you want to dig deeper, here are some useful links:
- List of supported browsers
- Latest release notes
- Fluid Topics Help Desk
- Fluid Topics Help Desk Quick Start Guide
- Training Courses You need to be logged in to access this topic
- Very useful tips from the Customer Success Team
- Fluid Topics glossary of terms
Lastly, some documents focused on specific topics:
- Empower metadata with Fluid Topics
- Manage editorial types in Fluid Topics
- Manage images in Fluid Topics
- Promote content in Fluid Topics
- Use Fluid Topics web API
- Understand linguistics in Fluid Topics
- Understand relevance in Fluid Topics
- Manage security and content access rights