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Thanks for the responses! It'll take me some time to do those descriptions, but it's better than having the nav stuff in the search abstract!

Is there a way to exclude an individual HTML element from the search abstract paragraph that appears in the search results page? For example, all our API topics have a floating navigation div at the top that allows the user to jump to an anchor point (request, response, etc.). However, since this is...

When you say "an API manager," do you mean an API doc generation tool such as Swagger or Apiary (I'll refrain from supplying a complete list, there are so many tools out there)?

We found that some of the div styles override the Foundation settings, and had better luck just using the Foundation settings and removing the other div classes. Got everything working like we wanted, though! It looks so sexy.

I've been able to track these styles down by opening the StylesForHomePage stylesheet in the code editor - most of them are "sections" but if you know what you're doing it's not too difficult to tweak some of the simpler properties. Hope this helps someone else down the road!

I'm trying to customize the <divs> that appear in the Home page template, but the only ones that are in the StylesForHomePage.css stylesheet are: button-group row slidingshow topichero But the home page itself shows the following div styles: title-text small-12 small-centered columns centered-text m...

If I remove the default stylesheet designation from both the project and the target (I only have one target that uses the topic I want to set a different stylesheet on), my stylesheet selector in the Topic Properties dialog is still disabled. Am I missing something here? It's odd because when I look...

Ooh... great suggestion. I'll hit up the scripter and see if this works. I didn't even think about adding a script to the skin, even though I've used that feature before. We'll see how it goes!

Thanks, y'all.

Ah, you're output is HTML5 then? I have a project where there are links to specific topics, which open without the skin. The problem is that the user does not have access to the TOC. So, I'm using Dave Lee's Automatically open topics with navigation skin to immediately reload the page with the skin...

We're interested in doing clean URLs as well, because we are passing credentials from our customer help ticketing application to our WebHelp so that's it only viewable to authenticated users.

Has anyone been able to pull this off? Thanks!

That's not quite what I'm looking for. When a user accesses the help system and selects a topic from the navigation, the URL looks something like this: http://documentation.csid.us/index.html#SMS/SMSSOAAPIIntro.htm%3FTocPath%3DSMS%2520SOA%2520API%7C_____2 But the static content of the actual file is...

Does anyone know if it’s possible to have Flare output the HTML content without using JavaScript/AJAX for the navigation? i.e. output the documentation so that each HTML page is “static” and has the navigation already in the output? The way it currently works, when you click a link, the conten...

That makes total sense! Great suggestion, Dave. This has been immensely helpful.

I got it to work, sort of/mostly. For some reason, when it compiles, it's not placing the skin.css with the override properties in the Content/Resources/Stylesheets directory in the Output folder. I could move it manually every time I compile with far less headache than modifying the styles.css in t...

Is there a way to easily reposition the header logo and search bar within the header area? Would this need to be done by adding a stylesheet to the skin?

Thanks for sharing this, Lydia! I'm anxious to check this out. While I'm sad I can't do all this in Flare, I'll count my lucky stars that I am surrounded by front end developers.

I really wanted to check out the OverDrive webinar but they're all at 10 CST and I have meetings at that time EVERY day. Any chance they're recording this one?

Well, poo. Here I was hoping I would find the answer the asking party was looking for, but it appears it is not possible. At least I have _an_ answer, meaning it's not possible.

I could use a PowerShell tool like Pandoc to convert the markdown to HTML, but I not-so-secretly hoped I could avoid the middleman. I'll add it as a feature request!

Well, shoot. Guess not

Does anyone know if Flare has any plans to add support for importing markdown (.md) files as topics? I ask because most API doc automation tools (Swagger, Apiary, Blueprint, etc.) spit out one large markdown file. I see it as my life's mission to make these two worlds work together, since most of th...

I use Word for reviews as well; I just send them with the caveat that the focus is on the content, not the layout.

I say you create as many targets as you need. Flare won't implode if you create umpteen targets, just know that the more you have, the more you'll need to manage. One thing you might consider is creating one TOC and multiple targets that leverage the same TOC. At the target level, you can include/ex...

If that's the case, then the way you outlined this should work. Conditional statements, multiple targets. For the role-based access control, would you just have 3 different sets of output?

What kinds of output are you producing?