A description of a given topic. A topic may describing or explaining a concept, a task to accomplish or a reference. There are a couple of topic types that set the expectations for the reader. Instances of the topic doctype usually have independent lifetimes from any referencing documents.
This section has formally been called 'Abstract', but has changed for 'Summary' to be used by different doctypes.
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Prerequisites
Expected knowledge of the user or a list of documents suggested to be read before this one.
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The title is not very inviting for readers. You may change the title to something like "Before you start" or "Check this out first", whatever best matches the tone your audience expects. To select this topic with transclusions you may still define an identifier of tag 'Prerequisites' in case you have to show topics for different audiences in an overview, using the Display Table Macro.
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Subordinate Topics
A larger topic may be broken down into individual subtopics.
Other than Section documents, subtopics may have an independent lifespan and may recognized as relevant standing on their own. If the subtopics do not satisfy this requirement, you may choose to break the topics into sections instead of subtopics.
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Related Doctypes
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Tours
Tours are used to aggregate other document instances, especially topics. They are of a means to take an alternative walk through the documentation.
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Section
Sections do not stand for their own. That is, if the parent document is removed, section documents are also removed (or their information is moved to other documents where the fit better according to recent understanding).
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Module
Modules help to create modular content for single sourcing. These modules are transcluded by topics (and instances of other document types).
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Generic
A generic document is like a topic, but has no default storage space. It is usually a related to another document. Use this doctype if you do not want the document instance show up in an index.
Typically you should either select Topic62062623or Section instead of a generic document.
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Topic Type
Besides the generic organization types Subject, Category, and Tag this type-specific category allows to create additional views on the set of topics.