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I'm building a new project with potentially hundreds of little topics nested in a complex folder structure. I can drag one folder containing 50 topics to a sub-node in the master TOC under a parent topic, but then the folder itself shows up in the TOC and the generated Table of Contents as well ...

Devil's advocate....

The senior guy's approach has the very strong advantage in that it is easy to maintain, and easy to see 'where you're at' at any point in time. For example, a change in one part of the UI requires only a change on a single topic, but your approach will likely require changes in ...

Can you add some mock-up images of what you want to do?

Off the top of my head, you could make the specific folder (e.g. Photos ) shared between the projects. That is, all the projects us the same Photos folder.

Or make the child projects import the photos from the parent. That is, the photos in the child projects are linked to the photos in the parent ...

Jbleasdale wrote:Hope that gives you a solution to start with?

Some excellent food for thought in there. Thanks a lot, will have a play around!

Any way to add a visual separator to the menu bar at the top of the screen in top navigation?

e.g. the pipes | below...

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The only hack I've been able to do is to add dummy topics to the TOC titled |, but this only appears if it's linked to another ...

What a shame you didn't attend MadWorld, there was an excellent presentation on just that thing.

I'm sure there's a webinar about it, I'll take a quick look and see if I can find it. (Webinars can be found here: https://www.madcapsoftware.com/resources/recorded-webinars.aspx#flare)

EDIT: Found it ...

Hi all,

I'm struggling to add autonumbering to printed output, even with the Flare help.

The required numbering is as follows:

h1 - 1..2..3.....
h2 - a..b..c.....
h3 - i..ii..iii.....
h4 - 1)...2)...3)...

For example:

1 Stuff
a Things
b Things
c Things

2 Stuff
a Things
b Things
i Bobs
ii Bobs ...

AlexFox wrote:I'm glad you got this sorted, it's a frequent complaint. These forums would benefit from an FAQ.

It would indeed.

Any idea what the intended use of this Desktop Scale and Layout % is? Who would possibly want spaces inserted into words in some generated output?

I have one HTML5 skin. This skin is shared with different flare project of our products. This skin is imported by these multiple flare project.
Now, I would like to set each product logo as logo in header. I cannot set the image of logo in each product project of flare. Therefore, this skin is ...

...Worse, once I created an images folder, I was not able to multi-select the image files and drag them into that folder. I had to do it one-by-one. And of course, I had to confirm that I wanted to update the links to the image file for each one. This process took a few seconds each time, and all ...

Glad you got it fixed, I've been bitten by that XML head stylesheet reference before too. Congrats on meeting the deadline

It really sounds like the master stylesheet isn't being picked up during the build, for whatever reason.

Are there any local stylesheets (i.e. the Allow local stylesheets option is enabled) that might be interfering with build?

Also, might sound stupid, but try renaming your master stylesheet and ...

Assuming you're publishing to HTML of some sort, have you tried in different browsers, and building and viewing on different machines?

Sounds like there might be some stylesheet overriding going on...? Try clearing your browser cache of stylesheets to do with this project. Try publishing to PDF ...

You should think carefully first about what constitutes needing a new Project (each new doc? each new doc within some defined subset, such as for Product A, or for Requirements Specs, or...?). Also, what kind of outputs? Does everything need to be output to the same place, such as a web output? Will ...

ajturnersurrey wrote:I use a pargraph style with autonumbers to do this. Interested to hear if there are any other ways to do it.

Interesting.

Can you clarify how you implement this, please?

The absolute key to getting going in Flare my experience:

- Show the building blocks that are topics.
- Show the usage/relationship/difference between TOCs, Targets, Skins, master pages and page layouts.

Have several versions of each available and let them play around with these four things, give ...

Jbleasdale wrote:Even though the mark as new is not supported in Top Nav, you could just make your own style to apply to the menu item.

See my post here.

Good post, thanks Jb!

Dave Lee wrote:Try...

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a.mc-prev,
a.mc-next
{
  top: 32px !important;
}

That did the trick, thanks!

Bump, any resolution to this?

Dave Lee wrote:Set its position from the top; e.g.

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a.mc-prev,
a.mc-next
{
  top: 32px;
}

Thanks Dave, I put that in the main stylesheet, but to no effect...

Phew... finally stumbled upon the culprit when I was trying to fix something else. There was no stylesheet linked to the OtherTopics masterpage. As soon as I linked the appropriate stylesheet , this issue got fixed :D

Thank you.

I'm having the same issue with the border shadow appearing in this ...

I was able to change the back/next icons by modifying the stylesheet as suggested. Thank you.
How would I change the vertical position of the back/next arrows (I would like them at the top instead of centered). Thanks. Isabelle

Bump this, I also need to change the vertical position of the arrows ...

devjoe wrote:Assuming you are using a PDF target for your release notes, you could set the option which sets heading levels using the TOC. Then you have a TOC for each x.y version and the x.* TOC includes each of the other ones one level indented.

That's done the trick, TIL.

Thanks!

I have two target outputs for release notes:
Release notes for specific release x.y Release notes containing all releases x.*

Release notes for a specific release x.y use header levels as expected - h1 for chapter title level, and so on down:
h1 - Introduction to Release notes
h1 - New features ...