In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a developer gets an error caused by a cyclic dependency in their configuration! A developer just updated something in a random file, after which […]
Why is my configuration cyclic!? Read More »
A question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner got into a fight with XPath when trying to target a specific element! A support issue came in with the following description: Hello, I am trying to select
My selector does not match?! Read More »
When organizations create business content, they need the input and participation of many stakeholders across the organization. That’s particularly true when it comes to creating technical documentation, content that contains detailed product information, or that requires deep subject matter expertise. And while having the right people involved in the process is crucial, the reality is
In this weekly series Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner is confused because the callback for their MutationHook is called a lot! This one came in from the support board. Summarized, a
Fonto Why & How: My hooks are too spammy?! Read More »
In this weekly series Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a developer was confused why their operation became disabled after they added a step to it! A developer is creating the following: whenever a
Fonto Why & How: My operation is disabled?! Read More »
In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaves like that in the first place. This week, a support question came in asking us how to react to changes in the XML. The question came in through our support board, and
How can I react to changes in the XML? Read More »
It’s finally here! After tirelessly working on our new documentation portal, we’re very excited to announce that its website has launched. The new website contains all the articles from before, except it’s much faster, more structured, easier to search and quicker to navigate. Click here to visit. We’ve also showered our Outline with love this
Release 7.13: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Read More »
Anyone involved in creating and managing documents understands how quickly things can turn chaotic when multiple contributors and stakeholders are involved. Unfortunately, many businesses still operate the same way they did a decade ago: emailing Word files and PDFs across teams to collect input and approvals. These archaic ways of working no longer cut it, according
6 must-haves for a better solution to structured content authoring Read More »
This release we’ve been tackling some big projects that are going to greatly benefit both our internal workflow as well as our clients’. For starters, we’ve been working on our very own diff engine, which will replace the current engine in Fonto Document History. This new and improved diff engine makes comparing revisions a lot
Release 7.12: Drinking our own champagne Read More »
You could just use copy and paste, but wouldn’t it be a whole lot easier to drag content from one place to another? That’s exactly what we thought, so we made it happen. On top of that, we’re introducing many new awesome features, such as a notification center, a button for applying change proposals, and
Release 7.11: (Drag &) Drop it like it’s hot Read More »
