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I typically use Notepad++'s Find in Files feature to find and replace variable text. Set the search mode to regular expression. If you are unfamiliar with regular expressions, perhaps you can ask a developer to help you out. Here is a great resource for learning and testing regular expressions: http...

Whoops, it looks like I should have posted this to the Getting Started and Installation issues forum.

Anyway, this issue may be a result of a .NET Framework update. Rolling back .NET Framework from 4.7 to 4.6.2 allowed me to uninstall 2012 and install/use 2017 r2.

Nita,

Thanks. I have contacted Tech Support. However, I was hoping to speed up the process by checking with the Flare community.

After some recent Windows 7 x64 updates, I'm running into the following issues: * Flare 2017 immediately shuts down upon loading it. * Flare 2017 cannot be uninstalled; I was able to uninstall all previous versions. * Flare 2017 r2 cannot be installed. Has anybody else encountered any of these issue...

jmwells21, I contacted MadCap about this issue and they filed bug #45472 on my behalf. If you would like to increase the chances of this bug getting fixed, I would suggest that you contact them directly. In the meantime, I've worked around this issue by doing window cleanup before closing projects. ...

Hi, Prior to Flare 12, manually linking a glossary term would automatically find the correct glossary and link the term. I recently inquired about this change in functionality and I received the following response: There was a new feature added in Flare that allows you to either associate a previous...

One additional tidbit:
It looks like Flare 2017 automatically removes the TOC from the right-hand pane when closing it.

Hi, I just upgraded from Flare 11.1.2 to Flare 2017 and it looks like it is no longer respecting window layout. Specifically, it now opens TOCs in the main pane instead of the right-hand pane. Does anybody know how to resolve this? More Information: Opening the same project in Flare 11.1.2 restores ...

Dave: Thanks for explaining why you chose a different layout.

Psider: Thanks for reminding me of z-index. I was overthinking the issue.

Dave: Why did you decide against placing the search bar alongside the menu?

It looks like the following div is overlapping the search bar. <div class="relative clearfix"> Setting a fixed width (e.g., 850px) on this div allows the mouse to apply focus to the search bar. div.clearfix { width: 850px; } Has anybody experimented with this type of setup?

I'm trying to create a custom TopNav layout using Flare 13/2017 where the search bar displays directly to the right of the menu. I'm trying to achieve this look through the following steps: 1. I'm using Dave Lee's function to move the search div above the navigation menu in the code. (I've tried usi...

Hi, I would like to add to roboHAL's response. Manually inspecting two different versions of the same topic may be a little bit cumbersome and time-consuming. A tool that can make this task slightly less so is a code comparison tool (e.g., Code Compare). However, if you are working outside of Flare,...

Hi,

I am also very interested in hearing about your developer documentation implementation.

Nita's solution works great. If you are like me, you might prefer to use keyboard shortcuts to speed things up a bit. In which case, you can press CTRL+SHIFT+H and then type "DIV" or "DIV. StyleName " to quickly apply that style. If you are trying to add it to a list, then you wi...

HTML5 Help:
In my experience, glossary terms with HTML tags will only display correctly when viewed from the Glossary tab. Glossary terms within a topic and on the search results page will display HTML tags as raw text (e.g., This is a <tag>definition</tag>.).

Pamb10,

FYI, the background-position property is only meant to be used with background images. As far as usage goes, background images are usually used for decorations as opposed to content. If you need to include an image when printing, then you probably want to use an inline image.

Pamb10, I use the background-position property to manually adjust the horizontal and vertical positions of background images. Generic Example: background-position: 13px 7px; Drop-Down Text Example: MadCap|dropDownHotspot { background-position: 5px 5px; } For more information, please refer to the xpo...

Try using the decimal codes listed on that page.

In case somebody else runs into this issue, I backed up and then applied the find/replace action on the following file: C:\Program Files (x86)\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare V11\Flare.app\Resources\WebHelp2\Desktop\Skins\Default\Stylesheets\Styles.css This seems to have fixed the issue when launching ...

Hi Kristen, I was very skeptical that MattyQ's solution was going to work, since his issue was either due to a case mismatch or the Madcap namespace issue. However, a blanket find and replace for div:hover --> [class*=div]:hover seems to have fixed the issue. I'm now going to try to be a little bit ...

Hi Kristen, Thanks for the suggestion. However, I don't see a namespace referenced by the styles used by the TOC (as provided by Chrome's Developer Tools). I'm not a namespace expert, so please enlighten me if I'm missing something. .tree-node.tree-node-collapsed > div { background: url('Images/book...

Hi, In the TOC of my HTML5 Help output, I've noticed that Chrome 47.0.2526.73 m displays the page icon for book entries. The correct icon (i.e., closed book) is displayed on mouse hover. After which, it will continue to display the correct icon (i.e., open/closed book), regardless of whether it is e...

@Jess77: djohnson's solution of adding the @namespace to the top of each CSS file seems to work for my local copy and the version hosted on our servers. Although I haven't been able to update the web version of our HTML5 help, I was able to test the fix by manually adding that line to the correspond...

A quick test indicates that this issue was introduced with version 47. Everything was working fine prior to the update from 46 to 47.

@jackdeland: Thanks for the update.