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I'm importing html files that come from my engineering team. Unfortunately I have to reimport with every build to be sure I have the latest material.

It's not that big a deal I guess to have a bunch of unused files. I just wish I understood the use-case for that feature, especially since it looks ...

Is there a way to disable the creation of a TOC file for each import? I have some projects with several sources of imported files and now I have have a half-dozen TOC files that I will never use.

Even if I can't disable it, I'd be interested in hearing if other people use these generated TOCs in ...

Just to follow up for any future searcher -

With MadCap's help support we discovered that my target had a setting:
RemoveMadCapStyles="true"

This was a remnant from an HTML5 output prior to selecting PDF.

When this is set to false, the xrefs displays as expected per the definition in the CSS ...

Thanks for the reply Mike. I can workaround by using a hyperlink instead of a cross reference.

But I don't really accept that this is default PDF behavior because I have generated many PDFs using paratext only xrefs in other projects that do not behave this way.

It is odd to me that not only does ...

Just to add some information:

I tried building as a Word document and the blue text is there without the page ref, however there is no link.

I never use Word outputs though so maybe this is normal?

Thanks,
Kath

In my stylesheet I have defined my xref formats to be:
{color blue}{paratext}{/color}

When I insert the xref it appears in the editor and the preview to be correct - heading text, blue, linked, no page references.
The text editor shows the code to be:
<MadCap:xref href="Step-1-Features.htm"><span ...

Excellent news! Thanks for the info.

Kath

And to re-iterate my previous post, it is really important that you are careful about how you import and what you import.

Dave I know you mentioned above that you include both kinds of files that are indicated as "newer" because the date/time stamp is only for when they were copied from source ...

And thanks also Nita, for reassuring me that what I'm attempting is possible!

Thanks,
Kath

Another workflow is to have a copy of your global project stored in a network location accessible to all your Flare users. Then you can either automate the updating of this global project (for example, having a script get the latest version of the global project n times a day and copies the latest ...

I am interested in this workflow because when recently troubleshooting an issue with MadCap support I was astounded to hear that Flare does not work properly if projects are stored on a Network drive. :shock:

When I asked how I could manage a multi-author environment support told me to use source ...

Thanks Jason!

That looks like it might do the trick. Odd that there are more options available after you insert the text box than while inserting, but good to know they are there.

Thanks for your suggestion as well Lisa. I'm going to fiddle more with the frames on the page layout to see what ...

Thanks for the suggestion Jason.

I did try text boxes, but as far as I can tell they will sit inside the page layout frame. I would like something that I can place in the white space outside the frame.

It is also possible that what I'm picturing isn't actually achievable and so I will have to ...

This might belong in the Printed Output section, but I think it is something fixed with styles so I'll start here.

I would like to have a two-page layout where the bulk of text is in a frame 2/3 of the page and the outside 1/3 is white space. But I would like the option to put selected items into ...

Thanks Avril.

It is a bit complicated and reading over my post I'm not sure I explained it well.

I have ~25 products (cameras). I have a target file for each product. Each product has between 8 to 20 models (based on camera sensor). Each model has two variants (mono/color). I don't know the full ...

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I have one project that creates documents for about 25 similar products. Each product has between 5 and 12 distinct models.

I'm using variables to define model attributes within each product. I have a MODEL variable set with twelve generic models named A through L. I also have a MODEL ...

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I'm not sure if what I'd like to do is possible, but if not maybe I could get suggestions on the closest approximation.

I have about 15 targets (1 per product) that I use to create multiple types of documents for each product. In one case I output the same document in two formats (HTML and PDF ...

Sorry - clarification. It appears the maximum width can be much longer than 32 characters. I found one I have that is quite long (155 characters) and it shows the full line. The width defaults to the maximum definition length - even to point of completely hiding the comments column.

Just FYI ...

Thanks for the reply Doug.

After posting this my IT department informed me that we were able to upgrade, so I've been playing with v8. :D

Just for the record, the difference in the Target Editor appears to be that it will now resize horizontally and will automatically stretch the width of the ...

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I'm using Flare v7.2 now and something that drives me crazy in the Target Editor is that even though you can resize the window, the actual editing space remains fixed.

I have a lot of variables and it would be really nice if when I made the window bigger, I got more real estate for my ...

Hi,

I've sifted through a few topics around this question but I still need some help. (I'm using Flare 7.2)

If I'm understanding the other topics, and the behavior I'm seeing, correctly: the Use TOC depth setting only works on those headings that have been set with an mc-heading-level >0 ...

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I have several products whose documents are in one project. I've been using separate TOCs for each product but only a small portion of the document is product-specific. I would like to create separate generic chapter TOCs and link to those from a product master TOC.

I did a test and it seems ...

Darn, I was hoping I just didn't understand what you meant.

I'm going to experiment with different table styles to see if I can find one that works and then compare to see exactly what is different.

I'll report back if I'm successful.

Thanks,
Kath

Thanks for the input, Cwestpha, but I'm not sure I understand how to apply your suggestion.

The tables I'm working with are defined as table styles and inserted as such. Most of them use only the td tag for the text in the cells. Is there another way of defining them besides in Resources-->Table ...

Thanks for the suggestion, Lisa.

I tried changing it to 0 (it was "not set") but this didn't make a change.

I'm becoming more convinced that it has something to do with the paragraph preceding the table, rather than the table itself. If that paragraph is a caption or a heading (both defined to ...