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There are certain parts of the documentation that authors want to be composed of text coming from the different topics. An example is the What's New section. Or an archive of the former What's New sections
The traditional approach to this requirement is to create a separate topic and write all the new features manually into the topic. This approach will fail where the documentation is not yet stable, and the texts and organization are subjected to several changes.
A better approach is to use the FeatureComposite feature of the software application. With this approach, text relating to a particular topic and destined to special section, are entered in a feature composite object under the said topic. These feature composite can accommodate an heirachical structure of texts made up of composites and tables.
While they are placed under the topic, they do not necessarily appear in the said topic. Instead, the texts appear with one or more composites specified in the FeatureSection attribute of the particular featurecomposite. To specify the composites and destination, please enter the Stable ID's separated by semi-colons or commas.
The feature texts appear after the regular texts of the composite destination.
It may be necessary to include the back-link of the particular topic where the feature notes come from. This is easy. Just select Yes to the Use TopicLabel attribute. By default, the attribute value is No.
Feature notes may have their own set of styles in the composite palettes and overrides. These styles apply only to the nuggets of the featurecomposite. The composites and tables under the featurecomposite objects have their own styles, unless undefined or inherited.
There is a special kind of featurecomposite objects. That which appears under the document palettes. Please refer to Working With Notes.
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