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Hi Msquared Wow, good effort and your first foray into topic based authoring. I sense success ahead! Thanks for all that info. I think, in a way, your description enforces my point that Madcap sing loud about how flexible the output of Flare content can be but the reaility is a delicate and risk-pro...

I'm still on Flare 6.1. This problem goes way back, it crops up all over this forum, i was just looking at one from 2008. It seems appalling that Madcap have not resolved such an in-elegant piece of functionality. As far as i can establish, this effectively means that you cannot easily produce, say,...

Dave Lee Thanks for that - your procedure worked for me. Note to others, ensure you follow Dave's instructions wrt switching to the Flare XML editor to place the <pre> . </pre> tags then coming out to paste in the Code formatted text in the Flare Text editor. I place a period in between the tags so ...

Hi Is it possible to use Flare 6.1 with Sharepoint? I have scanned the forum and not found the answer. The Flare help on this says it does, but does not specify which versions the help topic applies to. I've been using Perforce happily but the company is moving to Sharepoint so I'll be expected to m...

Hi All

Well, that's interesting, nearly a week has gone by and noone knows the answer. maybe i asked the wrong question. I'll contact MadCap.

Rgds

Matt

Hi All

Does Contributor work with Flare 6.1?

Latest feedback from your SME Contributor users would also be interesting?

Thanks

Matt

Hi This morning, after a few hours work, Flare suddenly refused me access to the file i was working on, then another file then all files. The error message cited that I did not have access to a seemingly unrelated file in an '...\Output\Temporary' directory. For the record, the generically recognisa...

Jennifer Morse, a MadCap Snr Territory Mgr has got back to me to confirm that use of the full X-Edit v2 is on a one licence per person basis.

Thanks Laura, However, I still don't know whether i can distribute my licenced copy of Full X-Edit to multiple content contributors. The link to the MadCap X-Edit page does not answer this either. What do other members of this Forum do? I shall be contacting MadCap and if i get a response i'll post ...

'Morning All I'm the main tech-author / info content manager using Flare to manage a series of projects. I have SME content contributors, I have templates for the SME contributors to use, I'd like the SME contributors to use the templates using X-Edit. I have a copy of X-Edit and notice when install...

ditto

Sole author, Chicago 15th (for dust collection), MMOS 3rd (for reference), Read me First (from Sun) to make up the set and slowly gathering own rules into a pile.

How about compiling the project as a PDF then just printing out just the Contents pages of the PDF output. To get the correct TOC headings level depth in your PDF In the Flare Target Editor (for PDF), open the Advanced tab and under Generated TOC, experiment with the option 'Use TOC depth for headin...

Lisa This is just the sort of answer i was after. Not only does putting it out to the forum set fresh eyes and minds on the issue but it utilises the knowledge pool from experienced users like yourself. Your answer is much appreciated as it also helps me to straighten out the project in a deeper, wi...

Good morning all, I'm using Flare v6.1.0 on medium sized software documentation project, PDF output only. I have a question for the Forum, I imagine i'm not the first to encounter this. A scan of existing posts cannot find this issue. In summary (detail at the base, if interested) I have a situation...

I figured the MS Manual of Style had already been put together so i may as well use that and have been for years. An amusing aside; the first time i bought this guide, years ago, I walked into a bookshop in London and asked if they had the Microsoft Manual of Style. The guy behind the desk looked me...

Hi kmitchell, thanks for your response - strangely, when i came in on the Monday after teh Friday posting the msg above, the problem had gone away. remains a concern asn cannot trust when might re-occur. - amusingly, when i reset the window layouts as you seuggested above, I got the 'Object referenc...

Hi Problem: Unable to open or add Reports - any suggestions? The details are below: Flare v.6.1.0 - 24/06/2010 Source control - P4V - Perforce Last Friday (01/10/10 (a very binary, on-off, day)) I ran a report successfully on some Tags I have applied to topics. Today (08/10/10): In the Project area,...

Hi Faulhaber I also am working on importing source Word (2003 SP3) docs into Flare 6. For experimental purposes I am working on a reasonably small Word file of around 40 pages. My current focus is to create Flare Word output file from my imported Word file. Yes, i'm just trying to get the full circl...