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About Analyzer
Analyzer is a tool that lets you analyze your project to find and fix issues, as well as create reports that display the information captured. There are two versions of Analyzer—internal and external. To take full advantage of the power of Analyzer, you must purchase the full external version, which provides access to all of the features. The internal Analyzer is a lighter version that is built in to the Flare interface, allowing you to use some Analyzer features.
Internal Analyzer
You can use the internal Analyzer by selecting View>Project Analysis in your project. This opens the Project Analysis window pane. This window pane allows you to analyze your project for the following:
- Broken Links You can view a list of files with broken links. You can see the file that the link is trying to find, the link text, the link tag, and other information. You can also open the file where the broken link is located. See Viewing and Fixing Broken Links.
- Database errors You can view miscellaneous errors that may occur regarding the Analyzer database. These happen when your project contains data not compatible with the Analyzer database. If a file is listed in this pane, it will not be included in any analysis or suggestions. If your project contains database errors, please contact MadCap Software's technical support team for help. See Viewing Database Errors.
- Incoming links You can view links pointing to the selected file from other files. See Viewing Incoming Links.
- Project annotations You can view a list of all files where annotations (internal comments) have been inserted. You can also double-click a row to open the topic in question. See Viewing a List of Annotations in a Project.
- Topics Not in TOC You can view a list of all topics that have been created in the project, but they have not yet been linked to any items in a TOC. You can also double-click a row to open the topic in question. See Viewing Topics Not in a TOC.
- Topics Not Indexed You can view a list of all topics where you have not yet inserted index keywords. Therefore, no references to those topics will be found in the generated index. You can also double-click a row to open the topic in question. See Viewing Topics Not Indexed.
You can also create reports to capture much more information about your project. See About Reports.
External Analyzer
The external Analyzer is an application purchased separately from
Flare. If you have the external Analyzer installed, you can open it from the
Tools>Launch menu in
Flare. This version is more robust than the internal
Analyzer and allows you to use many additional features, such as these
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- Absolute links
- Broken links
- Concept links
- Current issues
- Duplicate CSH IDs
- Duplicate items in TOC
- Duplicate styles
- External links
- Frequent phrases
- Frequent segments
- Incoming links
- Index keyword links
- Index keyword suggestions
- New style suggestions
- Non-XML topics
- Outgoing links
- Project annotations
- Replace local style suggestions
- Reports
- Similar segments
- Snippet suggestions
- Statistics and charts
- Topics for selected
- Topics linked by CSH ID
- Topics not in TOC
- Topics not indexed
- Topics not linked
- Topics not linked by map ID
- Topics with images
- Undefined condition tags
- Undefined glossary term links
- Undefined styles
- Undefined variables
- Unused condition tags
- Unused content files
- Unused CSH IDs
- Unused image
- Unused styles
- Unused variables
- Used concepts
- Used condition tags
- Used images
- Used index keywords
- Used language tags
- Used style sheets
- Used variables
- Variable suggestions
- Writing suggestions
For for details about these features, see the madcapsoftware.com website, or download a free trial of the external Analyzer and refer to its online Help.
SQL Server
In order to take advantage of Analyzer, you must install Microsoft SQL Server Compact. See Installing SQL Server.
Note: IntelliSense uses the same technology as Analyzer to display matching words and fragments as you type text. This helps you to add content more quickly. See About IntelliSense.
Note: When Analyzer scans a project for possible issues and problems, you might notice that your computer's system performance slows down. One reason for this could be the collection of phrases that Analyzer performs during a scan. You can improve this system performance by disabling phrase collection or lowering the number of words that are included in a phrase. However, disabling phrase collection will not allow you to capture frequent phrases or index keyword suggestions. It also means you will not be able to use IntelliSense. See Improving Analyzer Scan Performance.
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