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MadCap Flare

On-prem Topic-based Authoring and Publishing

MadCap Central

Your hub for streamlined content collaboration and management

MadCap IXIA CCMS

Enterprise-class Component Content Management System (CCMS)

MadCap Xyleme LCMS

Enterprise-class Learning Content Management System (LCMS)

User Guides & Manual Templates

Elevate your technical documentation with MadCap Flare's precision-crafted user guide and manual templates. Our templates enable technical writers and content developers to construct user manuals and instruction guides that are intuitive, accessible, and engaging. Create a seamless user experience with documentation that users can navigate effortlessly.

Engage and Guide with Tailored User Manual Templates

Utilize our user manual templates to provide clear and concise pathways through your content, ensuring that users find what they need quickly and with ease. Our templates enhance the structure of your Flare project's documentation, granting easy access to quick links and related content.

  • Comprehensive Layouts: Feature main content alongside customizable side panes that adjust to your content needs and the device's screen size, from desktop to mobile.
  • Interactive Elements: Embed videos and interactive content to enhance understanding and user engagement within your documentation.

Transform Your Flare Documentation with Dynamic User Manual Tools

MadCap Flare’s user guide manual templates are pivotal in crafting a dynamic, user-friendly documentation experience. With flexible widths and styles, our templates adapt to your branding and the specific needs of your technical documentation.

  • Customizable Templates: Adapt the templates to fit intricate documentation projects or simple help systems, with dropdown menus and navigation links that enhance the clarity and usability of your content.
  • Streamlined Content Creation: Leverage MadCap Flare for streamlined and topic-based content creation and management, ensuring your documentation remains accurate and up-to-date.
  • Project Merging Support: Our templates support project merging, allowing seamless integration of multiple projects into a single output.

Supported User Manual Templates for Flare Projects

The following user guide manual templates are supported in MadCap Flare 2018 and higher. All output previews have been published using MadCap Central.

front cover of instructor manual with technical writing examples

Monterey

This print-based project has been designed to produce instructor and student specific PDF manuals, including assessment questions. This template is supported in MadCap Flare 2021 and higher.

front cover of instructor manual with technical writing examples

Marina

This template contains two separate outputs. The instructor manual is intended to contain content that is tagged as instructor and all of the content for the student manual. The student manual only contains content that is specific to students and will exclude the content tagged for instructors. This template is supported in MadCap Flare 2018 and higher.

Legal Disclaimer: Documents may not reflect the compliance issues relevant to your state, locality or organization. All legal documents or any materials created with these documents should be reviewed by your legal counsel for compliance with federal and state laws and regulations and should be modified to suit your organization’s culture, industry and practices.

Solutions for Print & Online User Manuals

MadCap Flare’s user guides & manuals templates are engineered to improve the creation, management, and delivery of online help and technical documentation.

  • Streamlined Design: Deploy web design best practices with templates that balance free templates' simplicity with the robust functionality required for professional online help centers.
  • Integrated Content Management: Streamline your user manual creation with MadCap Central — an integrated cloud-based content management system, that makes managing your content, publishing, project management, SME review, translation, hosting, and analytics streamlined and efficient.
  • Multi-format Publishing: MadCap Flare supports publishing across various formats including responsive HTML5, SCORM/xAPI, PDF, and more, making it easy to deliver content in the most effective format for your audience, enhancing accessibility.
  • Collaboration and Review: Enhance team collaboration with MadCap Central’s review and contribution features, allowing subject matter experts and stakeholders to easily provide feedback and contribute to the content, ensuring accuracy and relevance.

Discover IXIA CCMS

Streamline the technical communication process with our enterprise-class DITA-native IXIA CCMS. It's a scalable, adaptable, and collaborative component content management system designed to enhance your documentation workflow. IXIA CCMS offers robust features for managing complex documentation projects, ensuring consistency and efficiency across your content creation and publishing processes. The results will speak for themselves.

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