TechCommSuite suggested workflow for New Documentation

Hi there,
We plan to buy TechComSuite2 to help with our new product documentation. Previously I have used Robohelp to create .chm files and the like, however now we want to produce several outputs:
Quick start guide
Detailed user manual
Configruation (internal use) documentation
and video help/training materials
TC2 has FM, Robohelp and adobe air etc.
What would teh suggested workflow be to produce and maintain documentation?
Am I right that it should be authored in FM with proper 'tags' set up so that sections are included/excluded from certain outputs.
RobotHelp manages the database of images/screengrabs and videos etc, and then batch processest he generation of output formats?
or, should it be written in robohelp and outputted from there?
im not sure really where best to start, and the videos and tutorials I have seen seem to be a little bit too focused on how to do things rather than how the workflow should be structured.
Any suggestions or advise?
cheers
peter brown

thank you. that is helpful.
The images that are in FM - does FM maintain a 'database' of images, so that if an image is used in multiple places in the document and needs to be updated - am I right to say that it is updated in one place only and the change ripples through?
Also, supposing our Quick start guide is a subset of the larger usermanual - are these "tags" (not sure if thats the right terminology) configured in FM so that RH then extracts the correct tags into the corretc output document?
thanks again for help and advice,
very useful to a noob.

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