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When I brought this to the attention of MadCap, they acknowledged that it is a bug (which is not fixed in Flare 2022 r3).

Hello, ChoccieMuffin. Thank you for your reply and for your wishes for a happy 2023! I think you are right: I need to handle the search operation outside of Flare. I usually use AstroGrep for various search operations, but it doesn't appear to fit my needs for this specific task. I'm not familiar wi...

Hello. I was hoping that I could create a macro to perform a series of text searches in my projects, but it appears that Flare does not permit that. Regarding macros, the Flare online help says this: "The controls that are disabled are hyperlinks, related topics, concept links, keyword links, e...

I opened a feature request today to suggest that MadCap make this a configurable element, as WriterAndrew suggested. It would be a great enhancement if we could easily re-direct the content to a variable that we define (or even a system variable) to replace the "Powered by ..." statement w...

I have the same problem with micro content in tripane skins: it presents the search results in an oversized font size and alters the presentation of the navigation pane. The only way to restore the appearance nav pane is to click the logo to return to our 'welcome' pane. Not good. Everything works a...

I'm having lots of problems trying to get a fixed topic menu to work. My master page places the menu proxy in a div, floating right. It works fine until I configure it to be fixed. Then, as soon as I start to scroll, the menu jumps to the far right and I can only see the menu's left edge. To see it ...

You are correct, Psider! I changed MadCap|indexProxy from 'all-print' to 'all' and it does use the index proxy to generate an index. Thanks for your help!

Hello. Just as a follow-up, a Flare support rep confirmed that the 'outline' is an effect that Chrome has added, as an accessibility feature. We'll live with it (and claim that it is a usability enhancement)...

Thanks for the tip -- I will give that try. Hopefully, that will be the trigger that Flare needs to generate the index. Thanks!

Hello, Paul. I tried your suggestion but my side-navigation targets did not generate output from the index proxy (that is, I create an index topic, inserted the index proxy, added it to my TOC). The topic is in my output but includes only the heading (h1) that I added. The targets for side/top navig...

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this post. Without your recommendations I never would have figured this out. I want to also add that I needed to configure div.GlossaryPageDefinition ... it applies to the generated HTML5 glossary topic output. The Flare online help for glossaries is woefully ou...

Hello, Moshe. Indeed, it does look slick! But I have a question for you. Given that the contents of the page are generated, how do you apply your custom styles to the content?

Are you referring to the browser's Accessibility settings? My Chrome "show a quick highlight on the focused object" setting is off. Anyway, in my output, no other hyperlinks behave this way: only the links coming from the Topic Menu items. I may need to ping MadCap support on this one.

Thank you replying. I checked our css files and we are not setting the focus. Is it possible that the menu skin sets the focus automatically? That would seem odd, but odder things have happened. I'll try some additional searches in the forums ... maybe I've not hit on the correct words to use in my ...

I am attempting to add menu proxies to certain topics in my project and, while the menu proxies work okay, but I am puzzled by one behavior in the generated output (side-navigation): when I select an item from the topic menu, the cursor moves to that item (the items are all h6 headings) in the topic...

I am seeing the same thing (Flare 2020 r2). The Undefined Styles list appears to list all of my styles, and even shows a separate entry for every instance in which they are used. I am wondering if it is because I have a 'master' css that includes multiple @import statements; the 'master' css does no...

There have been no additions to this discussion in quite some time, but I ran into the table-indent problem today and cannot quite work through it. I added this to my css: table.Indent2em { padding-left: 2em; border-color: #EDEFFA; } And this works when I publish to PDF. However, publishing to HTML5...

I am hoping that someone can help me with a problem I’ve encountered. P4V will not let me submit props files to the Perforce repository, even though my p4ignore file does not list .props files (the p4ignore file for this specific project). I need the props files because I am using global project lin...

Just a quick update. I used Audrey's approach today and it worked perfectly: no clean up needed. Perhaps MadCap has really fixed this perennial source of irritation in the product updates over the past few years.

Casey, I think you are correct: Flare does not support the requirement as stated by Carol. I've been looking into this also, and I can see no reasonable way to do it. We have the same requirement, and will also put in a feature request.

There is another possible cause. We have encountered this a few times and the problem was that the writer had submitted his or her Users folder to Perforce, but had not checked it out. Therefore, Flare could not access files such as PinnedStyles.xml . Checking out those Users files resolved the prob...

I have encountered this problem: 1. My .flprjfl file includes an Exclude Files list that contains General.flvar. 2. When I execute the import, the "Accept Imported Documents" screen lists that file AND also checks it (selects it) for importing. I would expect that the file would not even b...

When you save a project as a template, you select the folders and/or files to include in the template. But if you modify the source project and then save it again as a template, you need to once again select the folders and files. Does anyone know of a way to save the settings so that they are avail...

Thanks for the input, Dave, that completes the explanation. I'll follow the suggestion to add a link to skin.css in some topic and resolve the problem that way. And, I'll take this occasion to concur with kel322 about your website -- it's a great resource, and I appreciate your support of the entire...

Hello, @kel322. Thanks for your response: the solution works as you described! The odd part is the need to disable the "Exclude content not linked..." option. When it remains enabled, the published output excludes the skin.css file even though it is referenced by the embedded Javascript; a...