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Hi, I'd like to define a variable using a variable. Is this possible?

For example:
Variable ProductNameMac=Our Awesome Software for Mac
Variable ProductNameWin=Our Awesome Software for Windows
Variable ReleaseVersion=12.7

and I'd like to define a variable that uses the release version as part of ...

One other thing I'd like to get to scale that I don't seem to be able to figure out is the search box. The output is HTML5. Thanks again.

Hi, I'm trying to make my help scalable by using vmin for font sizes, etc. This is not a units option from within the Stylesheet Editor or the Skin Editor, but I can make the changes by editing the style sheet and skin in a text editor. So far, so good.

Except that I can't get the images to scale ...

As I was having this issue and none of the other fixes worked for me, I thought I'd share what finally resolved my problem. For me, it was simple. I had set the Stylesheet Medium to print, when I changed it to default, I no longer received the error and was able to build and publish. In hope this ...

Thanks for the help, Nita. I guess I was expecting iHt to work the way that Word templates work, but I can see what you're talking about when I look at what was generated.

ChoccieMuffin, I asked for help, but we didn't get a support contract, apparently. I can use Nita's method to make it work the ...

We just updated to Madcap v10 from Madcap v7. One of the reasons we updated was to be able to produce online help output in HTML5. I downloaded some of the templates and skins from your web site, but I can’t find a document that describes how I can bring my existing content into a new Online and ...

RE: your comment "the TOC book -- within which the displayed topic appears -- is closed so that the user doesn't know where the displayed topic is within the organization of the Help system."

I would like the TOC book to be open when the Help system first starts, as it doesn't seem intuitive to me ...

Thanks, I'll give that a try. Thanks for your help and suggestions.

I'm asking my manager for an upgrade to v10. In the meantime, there is a WebHelp example on the customer samples page that is very close to how I want my output to look. http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/flare/customersamples.aspx

From this page, scroll down to "Additional WebHelp Samples" and ...

So, I have Madcap Flare v7 (sigh, I know, I'm a contractor and I work with what they give me). Do the templates from http://www.madcapsoftware.com/downloads/templates/ work at all on the older versions. I get a critical error and the software closes when I've tried an HTML 5 template. Will any of ...

Hi, I am relatively new to Madcap Flare and though I've gotten better at using stylesheets and skins, I'm still a beginner.

When I go to the MadCap Flare Customer Examples page (http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/flare/customersamples.aspx) I see that a lot of the WebHelp examples are exactly ...

Thanks for your reply. If I set up my TOC as you suggest for the miniTOCProxy to do what I want, how do I get the TOC in the WebHelp left pane (called the "Frame" in the Skin Editor) to open in an expanded view to show more than just the book?

What I'm looking for is for it to show the book and ...

Hi, I know I'm trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, but another question nonetheless. I can create a style for print and for non-print mediums for the p.TOC1, etc. items, so wouldn't this be the place to specify the specific style difference? Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience ...

Thanks for your reply. As far as I can tell, the miniTocProxy won't work for my purposes (only shows topics that are part of a chapter, I want to show the chapters with the individual sections within the chapters displaying as well). I want to show a listing of all <H1> and <H2> topics in the ...

I have been editing the Styles.css document by hand in the internal text editor and in the stylesheet editor. Trying to indent the 2nd level heading of a TOCProxy. No matter what changes I make in p.TOC2, I do not see any resulting change in the TOCProxy generated in WebHelp. I'm thinking that the ...

Hi, thanks again. I had two destinations, both at the <root>, because, if I specified the destination as you suggested, the generated, published directories are <root>/admin/admin/adminTopics.htm and <root>/user/user/userTopics.htm.

In the Content Explorer, the /admin and /user directories are off ...

Hi, I'm publishing to WebHelp and linking to individual topics from various icons in my software. When I click an icon, the help topic displays in a separate browser window, and I've checked "Show navigation list at top of topic" in the skin, so there is "Open topic in navigation" at the top of the ...

Hi, thanks for responding. In Flare, I am trying to single source data for both users and IT managers. So, from the Content Explorer, I have directory /user and directory /admin. When I build and publish, I get <root>/user/userTopics.htm and <root>/admin/adminTopics.htm.

The problem lies in that ...

That's pretty much my question. I want to specify the location of the Data directory for WebHelp output. Looking at the generated Default.mcwebhelp, I see this:

Toc="Data/Toc.xml" Index="Data/Index.xml" Concepts="Data/Concepts.xml" BrowseSequence="Data/BrowseSequences.xml" Glossary="Glossary.htm ...

Hi, in trying to troubleshoot my issue, I noticed that in the Default.mcwebhelp file, there are links to the files that would create the correct navigation system for me. For the UserDefault.mcwebhelp file, these are:

Toc="Data/Toc.xml" Index="Data/Index.xml" Concepts="Data/Concepts.xml ...

Hi, thanks for the response. I don't think I was clear about what I'm trying to accomplish, so I'll try to explain better.

Currently, my destination directory for both the user and admin directories is Z:/en_US. The Output directory is the same. This seems to have the topic files where I want them ...

I have an output directory structure that needs to be like this:
en_US/user and en_US/admin.

When I build and publish my projects, whichever project I build last overwrites the files in the en_US/ directory. What this means for my output is that EITHER the user or admin projects have proper ...

One more thing, if neither of the other two questions are a "yes", will you tell me how to change the wording from "Open Topic with Navigation" to something else, like maybe "Open Topic with Navigation to see the entire article"?

My setup is that I am creating help topics from scratch in Flare 7.2.1. I am trying to output into WebHelp. The help will be brought up when a user clicks on a help icon in out product GUI. What this does is bring up the single help topic without scrollbars, so the content in the bottom part of the ...

I originally attempted to publish to a Sharepoint server, but my team decided to set up a new web server that I should publish to instead.

I enter the directory to which I want to publish into the Destination I've set up for this purpose. When I try to publish to the IIS server, I get this message ...