6 Document Filters

Filters provide a mechanism for Technical Document Authors to associate Characteristics (metadata) with Document Elements and use these characteristics to automatically filter the content. This is useful when technical documents can serve multiple, but related, purposes. For example, a technical document that describes several similar models of the same part. Content that is specific to any model (or models) can have filters associated with it. When an end user wishes to see only the content that is either associated with all models or is particular to a specific model, they can identify the appropriate filters and the Technical Document Editor will display the correct content accordingly.

Referring to the figure above, the list of features associated with Model ‘X123-01’ is A, B, and D. The list of features associated with Model ‘X123-02’ is A, C, and D. The list of available Filter Names and associated Filter Values is set in the Method tp_GetOptionFamilies.