UI navigation info for customizable UI

["Chris Orr" <got2940 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Hello techwr-lers.

My documentation team has a thorny problem with our product's new UI. With 
the new UI, users can choose how they want to view the product, and items 
appear in different folders and menu structures, according to the chosen 
view. Additionally, users can create new views.

We do not know how to direct users to find the items mentioned in 
procedures. We have tentatively decided to provide no UI navigation info in 
the procedures but instead provide a comprehensive UI navigation section in 
our Basics chapter. But we are concerned that users may find the procedures 
they need, but not go on to use them because they can't find the items 
mentioned in the procedures.

Whatever solution we decide on, it must work for us in a highly dynamic 
development environment, where we maintain hundreds of documents and 
localize them into many different languages.

Do you have other options for providing UI navigation info that we should 
consider?

Thanks,
Chris Orr

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