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Can anyone comment on successfully using -- which I suppose means managing -- the use of conditional text tags in a four-person, 10-document group of technical writers?

At issue is trying to share chapter / document files for three or more similar products. We're finding that it's easier to create separate container books / document files for each product then import-by-reference only the shared text inset content needed for that document. Attempts to achieve the same results using conditional text rapidly broke down on the third-document varation as the group struggled to design and apply the proper combination of tags that produced the desired output: The overhead of managing and successfully using the tags rapidly outweighed any notional benefits or using conditional text.

None of us on the team are stupid or lazy (I swear), yet we seem unable to come up with an effective real-world strategy for multi-writer multi-document application of conditional text. This bothers us because we keep seeing other writer's reference to their use of conditional text.

Any ideas?