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Friday Terminology

Throughout the Friday documentation, we use several terms in a particular way. Here's a list:

Term	Meaning
FAQ	The entire collection of files and directories that Friday creates and maintains for each project you create with it.
Template Set	A group of files that controls the appearance of your FAQ on the web. Includes HTML template files for the Main, Answer and FullFAQ pages of your FAQ, plus optional other files (background images, etc.)
Root FAQ Folder	The folder where you created your FAQ.
FAQ Folder	The \FAQ folder that Friday creates automatically beneath your root FAQ folder. This is where Friday stores your questions and answers.
HTML Folder	The folder where Friday creates HTML pages from your FAQ content By default, Friday creates a folder called \HTML beneath your root FAQ folder, but you can choose a different folder in the Settings dialog.
Main FAQ Page	Each FAQ includes a Main Page that contains a list of the questions in your FAQ. Each question is a link to the page that contains the answer to the question. Click a question, get an answer. That's the essence of a FAQ.
Answer Page(s)	Each question deserves an answer. The Answer Pages are what you see when you click a question.
FullFAQ Page	You (and the people who use your FAQ) may prefer to have the entire FAQ presented on one long page. That's what Friday calls a Full FAQ Page - and it'll create one for you automatically.
Heading or Subheading	As you add more questions to your FAQ, you may find that you need to break them down into categories to make your FAQ easier to use. Headings allow you to do this.
Command or CMD	CMDs look just like Headings on the questions list, but they trigger special features in Friday. A Full FAQ CMD, for example, causes Friday to generate a Full FAQ Page.

Three different types of items can appear in Friday's Questions list:

Questions
Each Question has a corresponding answer file in the \FAQ folder of your FAQ. Each Question in the Questions list appears on the main FAQ page as a link to the answer.
Headings
Unlike Questions, Headings don't have an associated answer file. Headings, just like headings in paper documents, help you organize your FAQ. You can define as many different types of Headings, each with its own formatting, as you like.
Commands (or CMDs for short)
CMDs are a special type of Heading that may or may not cause text to be displayed on the main FAQ page, but that cause some special action to happen. For example, the text you enter when you add a MAKEFULLFAQ command does appear on the main FAQ page, and it becomes an HTML link to the Full FAQ HTML page that it also causes Friday to create.
An INSERT command's text is actually the name of the inserted file and doesn't appear anywhere else but in Friday's Questions list. The contents of the file itself are inserted into the main FAQ page instead.

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Last edited on 11/1/2004 12:45:50 AM

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