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Thanks!

I'll give that a whirl.

G'day all.

I've been using Flare 2023r2 and earlier with Git repository, on Windows 10 with no non-intermittent problems. The operations in the Source Control section of the menu worked fine.

The corporate laptop was recently reimaged ( Win 10 again ), and Flare 2024 installed, and an ordinary RSA ...

Is it possible to have multiple levels of filtered search, i.e., a hierarchy of filters?

In our use of filters I thought it would be useful to keep the list as short as possible, by nesting related filter names under more general names.

Don't immediately see how to make it happen in Flare.

Is ...

I use Visual Studio for all of my merge conflict needs!
Visual Studio and the git command line do me just fine.


Yup. The people who led the way from Flare over to markdown were using VSC and recommended it. I use it now.
I use Git Bash alongside flare, to create any new branches or to get ...

I just point to a snippet in the Snippets folder for the project, and right-click, and select View Links.

Over on the right-hand side of the Flare window a pane displays the incoming and outgoing links for the selected file.

Before he left, our template guy modified a side-nav template (don't know which one) with corporate colors and page elements, and all worked mostly fine.

Now, another group - working in markdown with Pelican - has made an entry page for everybody's docs that includes a top-nav, drop-down menu of ...

THIS thread, right here, is one of the many reasons that a certain company (wink-nudge...) has begun switching from Flare to markdown+Pelican+<some-tools>.

I... er... I mean, some writer... is stuck with Flare because it would take six months of dedicated re-architecting and rewriting of my... er ...

We generate both an HTML version of our docset and the same content as multiple PDFs. These are delivered together , with the PDF version of a guide being an option for printing or offline viewing of that content.
So, for example, our home page, for a complete docset for a product, includes a table ...

We're keeping older versions on our systems for when Flare 17rX decides to slow down. Older versions just trot right along, unperturbed... but now with more visual annoyances.

Hi Kat,
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I often have process models I am sharing in a guide and I will end up in a real pickle if I didn't have a convention. Here is a recent example that makes sense to me:
FOLDER: 1002_ManageRecruitment
1012_MgeRec_Overview
1012_MgeRec_Diag
1012_MgeRec_Desc
FOLDER: PublishVacancy
1005 ...

I think I've verified that enabling the substring search capability in Flare causes the creation of the search database to take MUCH longer, causing the project BUILD process to take many times longer than the same project with substring search disabled.


Assuming we want to keep the benefits of ...

Thanks.

I think it's time for a separate, specific question/post.

Well, for ongoing work, I can actually recommend working via VMs, IFF your VMs are on the same server, or perhaps sharing a rack on the same subnet.
Among other advantages, it makes it possible to work from home or from distant offices without needing to carry a copy of your Flare project source ...

Do you have sub-string search enabled for HTML output?

As I mentioned, that bumped my build times from 18-20 minutes up to nearly 3 hours for the same material.

I did some optimizing of content, so that the search index wasn't trying to index so many super-long strings (dozens or hundreds of ...

All,
Batch builds run overnight on a dedicated server-VM with its own Flare license - this serves six writers at this office, and more to come.

Some of us also need to build and publish individual projects during the day, to verify fixes, prepare for meetings, etc., so we run the build from our ...

This question is for anybody using the newer/newest versions of Flare.

When building from Flare 11 or 12, we still get this problem (scroll to see top of page 80):

misplaced_note_graphic_after_page-break.PNG

After the page-break, the Note icon is repeated in the second half of the p.note ...

All,

Search for small substrings in larger strings is enabled, and customers and in-house reviewers love it.
But now, compiling the "search entry cache" is very slow.

Building and publishing takes hours, when it formerly took 20 minutes for a given project.

Substring search needs to stay, so ...

Our source is the source (both Content and Project files) for two or three versions of a given product's docs.
In the Projects, they are separated by named folders for each version.

As I'm checking a batch target (.flbat) I see that it has entries (checked or not checked, for "Build" or "Publish ...

I have Notes, Cautions, and Warnings that all use the same formatting, which is a horizontal rule/line/border above, indented colored text (with the word "Note:" or "Caution:" or "Warning:") bolded, inserted as the first characters... AND a little Notepad icon (or triangle with exclamation point, or ...

Hey! What a cute dog house!

Hi.

Did you ever figure this out or work around it?

Or are you still stuck, months later?

OK, wow...

I wish I'd checked THIS topic first when I wandered into the Pulse forum, instead of last.

So, a year later the verdict seems to be.... hmm .... almost exactly like the situation with RoboHelp in the early 2000s, that prompted us to abandon it and move to Flare. Disinterested and ...

It would seem to me that, if there's an innocuous explanation, for the behavior you detected, then MadCap staff would have responded with that explanation sometime in the past couple of years.

Not a hopeful sign.

I was trying to discover what might be the use of Pulse, without investing (time and trouble) in a trial that would expire before I could demo to anyone in authority.

So far, the utility eludes me.

We are a data security company, dealing with corporate and government customers all over the world ...

Habits are great and efficient, to get a lot done without having to waste brainpower on the minutiae (intracranial macros/scripts, so to speak) ... until they bite you.

I've been habitually just clicking the little down-arrow-head on that table icon, for my usual purposes, just sorta lost the ...