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I've finished my tests and while it's basically working since I re-imported our project from Central it has not been without issues. For example, before the upgrade Flare used to prompt me to load the latest files when I opened our project. Unfortunately, that has stopped. I now have to manually ...

Hi, Johanna. Old indeed. I do not recall our exact problem 9 years ago - but Msquared's solution still sounds sensible to me today. Try to follow her suggestions.

If, for some reason, you cannot use BeyondCompare, you can rename both the originally sent out review package and what you recieved back ...

I've just upgraded to Flare 2020r2, but I cannot connect to TFS which Flare 2020 did and Flare 2019r2 on my machine still does without any problem. I can also access TFS via Visual Studio, so the connection is generally there. In Flare 2020r2, I just see the red Diconnected icon in the bottom right ...

We're getting a lot of milegae out of Analyzer, keeping our Flare projects clean, many of which have several thousand topics.

We're looking for a way to remove certain items from Analyzer's eyes. For example, we have a bunch of template files which show up in many Analyzer reports (and correctly so ...

Hi, all,

I want to select many topics at once from a TOC to manipulate or at least open them all together. Specifically, I want to change custom file tags for all topics in chapters 8 and 9 in one TOC.

I find I can change file tags for several topics at once in Flare's File List - but I don't see ...

Thanks, Nita. Huh, yeah, that would actually work, wouldn't it...!

It's probably not feasible in our scenario where we need a "once-in-a-lifetime" reset button - and maintaining 100s of variables for that one occasion is most likely not worth it...

But we'll keep it in mind, because in tech ...

How can I sync the entries in a TOC with topic headings?

When I first build a TOC, the entries are the same as the headings. But what if I change a bunch of topic headings later and forget to align the TOC entries? Is there a button or option that will reset all TOC entries to whatever is currently ...

Brilliant, ChoccieMuffin! We'll investigate. We're grateful for every lead at this point, and it sounds quite plausible.

Many thanks! Cheers, Kai.

Thanks, ChoccieMuffin, good advice about the Trados forums - there's probably more users over there who are bound to have seen this problem.

I've asked my translator, and variables (which we also use) also break up sentences, so we wouldn't be any better off.

Thanks again. Cheers, Kai.

Hi, our translator uses Trados + the File Type Definition (FTD) for MadCap Flare to translate our Flare topics. She finds that even with the FTD installed, Trados omits .flsnp snippet files. Trados also chops up sentences which contain Flare conditions into chunks before and after the conditions ...

MadCapSoftware has tweeted that they are "currently looking at other AR providers as an alternative". See https://twitter.com/MadCapSoftware/stat ... 2676171777

According to the Flare 11 help at http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare11/Content/Augmented_Reality/About_Augmented_Reality_Projects.htm, augmented reality in Flare 11 requires Metaio Creator. The Metaio product is no longer available as of May 23, 2015, and the company will stop all services ...

This has been fixed. There is now a new icon ON TOP of the Text Editor that lets you switch to the XML Editor when you access a topic via the search result list.

In our team of 10 writers, we also see the occasional hang or black screen. Based on our anecdotal, non-scientific evidence, hard-drive speed seems to be equally relevant. Note that for Flare 10, the Sys Reqs at http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/#Flare/Installation_-_Activation_-_Registration/IAR1018F ...

Is there a way to delete a word from Flare's own dictionary?

There are a couple of words we don't want any writer to use, ever, regardless of how correctly they may be spelled! At least, we want is a red squiggly line underneath the words to remind writers that they shouldn't use it.

Any ideas ...

There is a report for this now in V10.
Create a new Report in the Project\Reports folder - Choose an empty report.
Scroll to Project and choose Statistics.
Generate and you have everything you need for the translators.

Thanks, Rob - hadn't seen the new report, but it goes a long way towards ...

A couple of unexpected insights about Flare 10:

Apply character styles to text inside a table
Previously, you couldn’t apply character styles to the complete text inside a table cell, but you had to add a space at the end and then style the rest of the text. This is allegedly fixed, but in my ...

Thanks, Dave - that's what we've done so far, grudgingly, I may add...

The word count in the XML Editor (bottom left corner) is a very welcome enhancement in Flare 10. But how useful is it currently, if it's just a dead number on the screen?

We need it to do a little more for us. When we communicate with translators and others who use our topics, we don't want to ...

A couple of unexpected insights about Flare 10:

Apply character styles to text inside a table
Previously, you couldn’t apply character styles to the complete text inside a table cell, but you had to add a space at the end and then style the rest of the text. This is allegedly fixed, but in my ...

@qtxasjo: We've often had "our" reported bugs fixed under different numbers. It seems when several users report the same bug, MadCap doesn't always list all the numbers in the Release Notes list. So you might have to go through the entire list...

@qtxasjo:
The Flare 10 What's New Guide is at http://docs.madcapsoftware.com/FlareV10 ... wGuide.pdf
The list of customer-reported issues that were addressed in Flare 10 is at http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/#Flare/Gen ... _Notes.htm

Hope this helps, Kai.

You're welcome, Cardinal! No worries - it IS kind of a hidden option...

Glad I could help! Cheers, Kai.

Have you tried the option that syncs the TOC with the open topic? Should be easy to try out and maybe that's just it...?

See http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare ... Topics.htm

Cheers, Kai.

Hi,

Occasionally on Flare 9.1.1, I need to import a bunch of additional topics from an extra Word file into an existing project. The Word file I import has the same template and styles as earlier imports which initialized the project. The topics I want to import should use the project's existing ...