Creating Multi-version Manual

You can easily create a multi-version manual for different versions of your software. The main specific of a multi-version manual is that you don't update the previous version of your manual but you create a new one. Here is how it works in ClickHelp:

• Imagine you have a project called My Software Documentation, and you need to create different versions of this document.
  
  
• Click Publish, select Create a new publication to create a new version, and specify the version number, e.g., in the Publication name field.
• So, you need to create a new publication for each version.  

Here is an example of how it may look:

This approach is convenient since your users can open the necessary version from the version selector that is typically displayed at the top.

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Currently, the most recently published version is displayed at the bottom of the version selector.

You can read more about different approaches to managing multi-version documentation in the following topic from our Knowledge Base: Managing multi-version documentation.

In order to save time, you can reuse your content, add different output tags, and much more. Here are the topics that will be helpful:

• Reusing Topic in Multiple ToC Nodes
  

• The Partial Update Publishing Mode
  

• Content Snippets
  

• Conditional Content
  

• Output Tags

• Link to Your Documentation Portal
  

If you need to archive an old documentation version, make it private, or export and delete it from your ClickHelp Portal:

• Publish Manual
  
• Printed Output
  

If documentation versions are in different languages, you can adjust languages for your publications. To learn more, refer to this topic: Adjusting Language for Project. 

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