This document discusses how to use the over 100 built-in reports and advanced reports in MadCap Flare's Analyzer tool to manage projects. It provides an overview of the different types of reports available for project management, content analysis, links, styles, indexes, variables, and more. It also demonstrates how to create custom reports and apply file tags in Flare.

1. The Employee You Don't Have to Pay or Feed: Using Reports and Analyzer
Scott DeLoach – scott@clickstart.net ClickStart – www.clickstart.net
In this session, we will discuss how to use Flare's 100+ built-in reports and Analyzer's advanced reports. We'll
share our list of favorite reports, and explain how you can use them to manage your projects.
Flare vs Analyzer
“Seeing vs doing”
Built-in Analyzer reports (View > Project Analysis)
Enabling Analyzer scanning (File > Options > Analyzer tab)
Analyzer reports
Project Management
Statistics
Unused Items
Accessibility Suggestions
Used Language Tags
Topics Not Linked by Map ID
Markup Suggestions
Writing Suggestions
File Tags
Used File Tag Tags
Undefined File Tags
Links
Broken Links
Broken Bookmarks
External Links
Absolute Links
Concept Links
Used Concepts
Styles
New Style Suggestions
Replace Local Style Suggestions
Duplicate Styles
Undefined Styles
Index, TOC, and Glossary
Topics Not in Index
Index Keyword Links
Index Keyword Suggestions
Used Index Keywords
Topics Not in Selected TOC
Duplicate TOC Items
Undefined Glossary Term Links
Variables and Snippets
Used Variables
Undefined Variables
Variable Suggestions
Snippet Suggestions
Frequent Segments
Similar Segments
Condition Tags
Used Condition Tags
Undefined Condition Tags
Problem Solving
Database Errors
File Issues
Non-XML Topics
Reviews
Files with Annotations
Files with Changes
Creating a report
 Select File > New.
 For File Type, select Report.
 Select a Template.
 Type a Name.
 Click OK.
 Select the table(s) to include.
 Click Generate.

2. New reports in Flare 9
 Topics With Snippet Conditions
 Unused Bookmarks
 Used Bookmarks
Formatting, sharing, and printing reports
Formatting options
Emailing and printing
Reformatting in Excel - forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?p=78895
Creating a file tag
 Select File > New.
 For File Type, select File Tag Set.
 Select a Template.
 Type a Name.
 Click OK.
 Add tags.
Applying a file tag
 Select a topic or topics.
 Press F4.
 Select File Tags.
 Select the tag you want to assign.
 Click OK.
Common file tags
 Author
 Reviewer
 Status
 Critical path
 Version
Using the File List
Rearranging columns
Adding/removing columns
Exporting to Excel
“Hidden” reports
Build log
TOC export
Style definitions

3. About the presenter
Scott DeLoach is the Founder of ClickStart, where he provides training and
consulting for MadCap Flare, Adobe Captivate, embedded user assistance (UA),
CSS, HTML5, and Word. He has been developing browser-based UA since 1997, and
he has received four STC “Best in Show” awards for his work.
Scott is a certified Flare instructor, and he manages the MAD for Flare certification
program. Scott is the author of MadCap software’s training guides, MadCap Flare
Developer's Guide, CSS to the Point, HTML5 to the Point, and Word 2013 to the Point.
You can reach Scott at www.clickstart.net or by email at scott@clickstart.net.