What's New in MadCap Central, December 2024

Build Projects Directly in Central

Take another step toward content independence by creating projects directly within Central.

• Cloud-Based Project Creation: Start and manage projects in Central.
• Built-in tools: Author, design, and build outputs all within Central.   

Streamline Content Reuse with Proxies

Automatically apply consistent elements, like navigation and headers, across multiple topics and outputs.

• Flexible Content Structuring: Insert proxies into templates, topics, and snippets for adaptable outputs.
• Customizable Properties: Easily add proxies and adjust their settings for tailored results.

Maintain Consistent Branding Across Outputs

Central’s enhanced Branding Editor allows you to manage branding properties with real-time CSS previews and expanded interface options, ensuring consistency across all outputs.  

• Live CSS Preview: Changes are displayed dynamically in real-time, ensuring accuracy before finalizing your styles.
• Effortless Branding Transfer: Transfer branding elements while previewing existing templates.
• Preserve Custom CSS: Retain your custom rules within branding files for consistent branding across projects.
• WYSIWYG and Code View: Manage properties for new and existing branding stylesheets with an intuitive interface and flexible controls. 

Easily Create & Deliver Clean XHTML and PowerPoint^® Presentations

Central’s enhanced target editor allows you to create both Clean XHTML and PowerPoint outputs, allowing you to generate and manage even more formats directly in the cloud.

• Centralized Target Creation: Add and manage Clean XHTML and PowerPoint outputs within Central’s cloud-based editors, without switching tools. 
• Presentation-Ready Slides: Quickly generate PowerPoint files from your existing content for immediate use. 
• Clean XHTML Output: Create lightweight, standards-compliant HTML files. 

Improve Workflow Efficiency with Integrated Image Property Controls

The enhanced Edit Image Dialog provides advanced controls for adjusting image properties like alt text, width, and height, directly within Central. 

• Accessibility and Compliance: Modify alt text, width, and height to ensure content meets accessibility standards. 
• Real-Time Adjustments: Make quick, on-the-fly edits to image properties, keeping content production fast and accurate.

Take full control of translations directly from Central

Simplify the process of managing multilingual content by handling every step—creating translation packages, reviewing, approving and publishing directly within Central.

Simplify Content Publishing with Central's Cloud-Based Target Editor

Streamline the process of adding and editing HTML5 and PDF target files directly in Central.

• Add and Edit Targets: Create new HTML5 and PDF target files and edit common settings directly in Central.
• Copy Existing Settings: Leverage settings from existing targets to simplify the setup process.
• Ensure Consistency: Configure settings to align outputs with brand guidelines effortlessly.
• Boost Efficiency: Manage different output types efficiently from the cloud, reducing the need to switch between tools.

Develop Content Efficiently with Branching Support in Checklists

Select a branch when creating new topic checklists. Improve project management for by isolating drafts from released projects.

• Enhance Focus: Manage tasks for different features or versions separately, reducing confusion and improving workflow.
• Track Progress: Easily monitor tasks specific to each project branch, ensuring nothing is overlooked.
• Organize Development Content: Keep draft content separate from published content, making updates and management straightforward.

Improved Analytics

Analytics now offers better performance, faster load times, and even more advanced filter options for tailored data insights.

• Get Immediate Insights: Start with the most relevant data at a glance. Display immediate insights into your recent performance without overwhelming all-time data.
• Improve Workflow Performance: Experience faster load times and smoother performance. Spend less time waiting and more time analyzing your data.
• Tailor Data Analysis: Gain more control over your data with enhanced filter options. Focus on the metrics that matter most to you.

Centralize Styling in Central’s Cloud-based Branding Editor

Customize your project with new branding stylesheets, including colors, fonts, and hero images, ensuring a consistent look and feel. 

• Set common branding elements (logos, hero images, colors, and fonts) for quick brand integration 
• Achieve brand consistency effortlessly with dynamic customization options 
• Align output effortlessly to match organizational branding guidelines 
• Elevate brand identity through intuitive and centralized controls 
• Import settings from existing stylesheets 

Improved capabilities AI Assist with OpenAI GPT-4o

Leverage text, voice and vision capabilities with the latest update from OpenAI.

The latest upgrade to AI Assist in Central, powered by GPT-4o, offers faster, smarter interactions across text, voice, and vision. Translate content, learn about complex subjects, and get personalized recommendations effortlessly.

Plus, get ready for natural, real-time voice conversations and live video interactions.