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Structure your site for product versioning

Applies to:
All MindTouch Versions
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Organize your site structure to accommodate product versions.

There are multiple ways to approach your Expert structure for versions.

  • Version-centric: Are your product versions vastly different from one another? Is most of your documentation unique to your versions? Do you only have a minor amount of shared content across product versions?
    • Benefits: Allows users to quickly drill down to find their specific product version. If there is little or no shared content between versions, your maintenance of duplicate content is minimal.
    • Limitations: More overhead for documentation management for large shared content. Potential for duplicate articles. More content to drill into means a potential reduction in ticket deflection. A search bar on the product page will provide search results for all versions.
  • Version-agnostic: Do you only have one version or product? Or do versions of your product contains only small feature differences?
    • Benefits: Less customer effort for self-service as there is less content to drill into.
    • Limitations: May be harder to work with for those products that have major changes between versions.
  • Hybrid: Do you have a smaller set of most popular content that does not vary across versions or can be modified to accommodate multiple versions? Are a few product versions similar enough that you can blend the content together?
    • Benefits: Cleanly separates content versions alongside general product guide.
    • Limitations: Users may not be aware of the different version documentation.

Structure examples

Version-centric structure

With version-centric structure, you nest second-level categories for your versions directly below your product category.

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Version-agnostic structure

With version-agnostic structure, focus on the general main features of a product and then separate out articles that pertain to a specific version if needed.

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How to implement site structure for versions

Consider version content as part of an overall Information Architecture that is best for your user experience.

Expert features to leverage

Custom Classifications - Create a Custom Classification for your product versions and assign the appropriate classification on articles. Leverage the Customer Classification for Custom Classification Guide Tabs

Tags - For content that applies to multiple versions, especially when not using version-centric structure, apply a tag for each relevant version. 

Permissions and Privacy - Use a combination of User Types and Page Privacy to control who can see what content.

 

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