MadCap Analyzer™ - Report, Analyze, Suggest and Fix

MadCap Analyzer will improve your project efficiency and consistency, as well as add speed to your authoring.

Unlike any other application currently available, MadCap Analyzer not only allows you to design and generate reports for information such as broken and missing links, but it also provides suggestions for your Flare and Blaze projects. And then, with a few mouse clicks, you can fix the problems in Madcap Analyzer, saving you potentially hundreds of hours of manual work.

Analyzer will help you get your project under control by remembering what you've done and predict what you're going to do, scan your projects, and make suggestions for items such as variables, snippets, styles, and more.

Features at a Glance:

Suggestions
Your project is scanned for suggestions to help your project be more efficient:

• Variable suggestions
• Snippet suggestions
• Suggestions for using existing styles
• Suggestions for creating new styles
• Replace local style suggestions
• Similar segments
• Frequent phrases
• Batch conversion of HTML files into XHTML

Reports
The reports include:

• Statistics, such as:
  • Date project last modified
  • Number of total topics
  • Number of total words
  • Number of total images
  • Number of total snippets
• Absolute links
• Broken bookmarks
• Broken links
• Concept links
• External links
• Index keyword links
• New style suggestions
• Non-XML topics
• Topics linked by map ID
• Topics used multiple times in TOC or outline
• Topics not in index
• Topics not in TOC or outline
• Topics not linked
• Topics with images
• Undefined condition tags
• Undefined variables
• Unused CSH IDs
• Used and unused condition tags
• Used and unused images
• Used and unused variables
• Used concepts
• Used index keywords
• Used style sheets
• And more…

These reports can be graphed, analyzed and distributed to help you make sure your project is complete and works the way you, and your users, expect it to work.

Click To Enlarge	Frequent Phrases and Snippet Suggestions MadCap Analyzer identifies all the places in your project where you use the same phrase or segment. For example, if you frequently use the words "On the File menu", this phrase and all the places and topics where you use this phrase are identified. You decide this would be a good candidate for a snippet and, right within MadCap Analyzer, create a snippet for your project with two simple mouse clicks. With any other tool, you have to search out all the places where you want to replace that text with the new snippet. Not with MadCap Analyzer. In MadCap Analyzer, you go to the Snippet Suggestions area and, with 3 mouse clicks, all instances in your project of that text are replaced with the new snippet. You're done!
Click To Enlarge	New Style Suggestions and Replace Local Style Suggestions MadCap Analyzer identifies all the places in your project where a style could be used but isn't. For example, you imported multiple html files into your project and they are using new formatting that you want to add to a style sheet in your project. MadCap Analyzer shows you the topics and style settings. You select the tag you want to convert to a new style, and, in two mouse clicks, you create a new style with those settings. With any other tool, you would have to go find all the places with similar formatting to the new style and manually apply the style. Not with MadCap Analyzer. In MadCap Analyzer, you go to the Replace Local Style suggestions and, with two mouse clicks, all text with matching formatting are updated. You're done!
Click To Enlarge	Used Index Keywords MadCap Analyzer examines and shows your index keywords for an entire project in one place. For example, you have multiple authors working on a project, each indexing as they work. MadCap Analyzer examines the index keywords, showing you what keywords are used and where. Select the index keywords you want to edit. With two mouse clicks, you change the index keywords and apply those changes to their topics.
Click To Enlarge	Used Concept Keywords MadCap Analyzer examines and shows your concept keywords in your project. For example, marketing just changed the name of a main feature, forcing you to rename the concept keywords in your project associated with that feature. MadCap Analyzer examines the concept keywords, showing you what keywords are used and where. Select the concept keywords you want to edit. With two mouse clicks, you change the concept keywords and apply those changes to their topics.
Click To Enlarge	Non-XML Topics MadCap Analyzer examines and shows any topics that are not yet converted to XML in your project. For example, you received several html topics from your developers and added them to your project all at once. MadCap Analyzer shows you which topics are not yet converted and where they are. Select the topic you want to convert. With three mouse clicks, you preview the original against the converted file and then convert that topic to XML. You can also select several or all files to convert, if that's what you want to do.

Think of the time you can save. And when you're under deadlines, every second counts. These are just a few of the many powerful analysis tools in MadCap Analyzer.