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- Tue Jul 19, 2022 10:15 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Full Width Hero
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2361
Re: Full Width Hero
I don't know if it's the best possible solution, but I define the max-widths in the stylesheet at the level of the elements that are expected to be children of the <body> tag, such as paragraphs, divs, headings, and tables. This way, if I want to have a different max-width for something, such as a t...
- Mon Jul 18, 2022 6:29 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Deleting everything with a specific condition tag
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1855
Re: Deleting everything with a specific condition tag
Thanks Nita. Well, at least now I don't have to feel silly about not being able to find the super simple way. We use Subversion and branching is one possible way to do it, but (as the person who fields most of the questions about these things on the team) I think many people on the team will be more...
- Fri Jul 15, 2022 3:44 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Deleting everything with a specific condition tag
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1855
Deleting everything with a specific condition tag
Is there a really simple way to just permanently delete anything marked with a given condition tag from a Flare project? The use case is that there is a software feature that is being replaced with a new feature. To provide documentation for the beta version of the update, I'm hiding the content abo...
- Mon Jun 27, 2022 1:14 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: No support for video subtitles track?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3348
Re: No support for video subtitles track?
What we do is host the videos elsewhere and then embed them in Flare content. The video hosting site we use (Vidyard) is nicely set up for subtitling videos. It even has some pretty decent automated voice recognition that does a first pass at subtitles for you. Vidyard isn't free, but if that's an i...
- Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:54 pm
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: What is a div for and how does it differ from a span?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2340
Re: What is a div for and how does it differ from a span?
We used to use divs for notes, tips, and cautions. However one thing I discovered several years ago about divs in Flare was that in PDF outputs, the rules about where page breaks belong (mainly widows and orphans rules) went out the window inside divs. We ended up with a bunch of pages containing no...
- Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:18 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: How do you reveal existing cross-references in the XML Edito
- Replies: 2
- Views: 888
Re: How do you reveal existing cross-references in the XML E
I was going to say the same thing as doloremipsum about the structure bars. Note that these bars at the top are the Span Structure Bars, and they can be turned on and off. (https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2021r2/Content/Flare/Interface/Editors/XML-Editor/Structure-Bars/Structure-Bars.htm) Anoth...
- Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:52 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Is Flare 2022 a bit slow?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3328
Re: Is Flare 2022 a bit slow?
I'd been finding the stylesheet editor - particularly entering comments about styles - to be painfully slow, particularly with longer stylesheets, before I installed Flare 2022. I did some test builds with Flare 2022 right after I installed it and found that most projects took a little longer to bui...
- Mon Jun 27, 2022 9:18 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone using Acrolinx or similar?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 696
Anyone using Acrolinx or similar?
Another department in our organization is looking at maybe getting Acrolinx to help folks to use a consistent tone and stick to the approved terms for things, and they reached out to the tech writers to see if we had any experience with it or a similar tool. We don't. But Acrolinx claims to integrat...
- Wed Aug 11, 2021 6:25 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Import from Confluence not working for large spaces
- Replies: 1
- Views: 951
Re: Import from Confluence not working for large spaces
The first version that they released had a bug where it would only retrieve content from a limited number of spaces, but I thought that was fixed in later versions, or at least if you contact Madcap, they can give you something that will fix it.
- Tue Jul 27, 2021 2:51 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Is Google Tag Manager possible in 2021?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3697
Re: Is Google Tag Manager possible in 2021?
Here's what we are currently using: <noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-######" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe> </noscript> <script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.star...
- Tue Jul 27, 2021 2:43 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Is there a way to permanently turn off Expand/Collapse?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 846
Is there a way to permanently turn off Expand/Collapse?
As far as I can tell, it's possible to turn off expand/collapse indicators on a topic that I am editing, but as soon as I switch to another topic or close and open the topic, they're back. Is there some obscure way to turn them off permanently for all topics, by any chance? (I'm currently using Flar...
- Tue May 05, 2020 2:09 pm
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: How to give responsive layout divs uniform height?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3360
Re: How to give responsive layout divs uniform height?
Thanks! Flex boxes were just the thing. Everything is behaving now. A note for people who might be wrestling with a similar problem in the future: I found that specifying the flex display option prevented my divs from changing layout when the mobile break-point was hit, so I ended up with all three ...
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:54 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: How to give responsive layout divs uniform height?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3360
How to give responsive layout divs uniform height?
I'm tinkering with responsive divs on a landing page. What I want to do is have a row of divs that are all the same height, even though they contain different amount of text. I'm envisioning the parent div having whatever height it needs to have to contain the child div with the most text at whateve...
- Tue Oct 22, 2019 7:12 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Global setting that converts SVGs to PNG in output?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1336
Re: Global setting that converts SVGs to PNG in output?
... and this is magically fixed by upgrading from 2019 to 2019r2.
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 1:45 pm
- Forum: Single-Sourcing
- Topic: Multi-PDF output same TOC
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6111
Re: Multi-PDF output same TOC
Does the on-boat one have to be a PDF? Or could it be a type of output that gets its layout from a master page, which can be applied via the topic properties?
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 1:28 pm
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Importing from Confluence?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5169
Re: Importing from Confluence?
My experience with re-importing anything so far is that it simply overwrites my changes. Making detailed changes to topics that will need to be re-imported later is probably not a great use of anyone's time.
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 1:17 pm
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Strong, bold, or span.bold? and then some
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6199
Re: Strong, bold, or span.bold? and then some
If you disabled the <em> style, it won't be available in the editor. Any chance that could have happened, yonatanlehman ?
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 1:08 pm
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: How to Set Transparency Percentage for Image
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3213
Re: How to Set Transparency Percentage for Image
I solved this one by editing the image file itself (a .png) to make it partly transparent.
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 11:51 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Global setting that converts SVGs to PNG in output?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1336
Global setting that converts SVGs to PNG in output?
Is there some kind of global setting that would cause SVG graphics in a project to get convered to PNGs when targets are built? When I build my projects, the SVGs stay SVGs (as they should) in the HTML5 tripane output. However, on the system that runs automated nightly builds using the same source f...
- Tue May 14, 2019 4:13 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Can't type or edit phrases for micro-content
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3735
Re: Can't type or edit phrases for micro-content
<validation>I get that happening too. As you say, it's annoying.</validation>Chicago_HPT wrote:
On a side note, I'm surprised that's still an issue. It's been around for a while now and it's hugely annoying. </rant>
- Tue May 14, 2019 3:59 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: micro content very disappointing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8769
Re: micro content very disappointing
I'll just chime in and say I had a similar issue with "past" and "paste" and it is now officially bug #145814. I've turned off micro-content until this is fixed, since our subject matter includes a lot of terms that begin with the same letters but aren't even close to equivalent....
- Tue May 14, 2019 3:32 pm
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Applying Flare table stylesheets to tables imported fr Word
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5033
Re: Applying Flare table stylesheets to tables imported fr W
Open the table style you want to use, as though you were going to make changes to the style. Right at the top of the table style tab, there's a little inconspicuous button that says "Apply Style..." Click it. The box that pops up is fairly self-explanatory, I think, in terms of what it does.
- Tue May 14, 2019 3:10 pm
- Forum: Single-Sourcing
- Topic: Problem with title-linked TOC entries + conditions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10150
Re: Problem with title-linked TOC entries + conditions
When I encountered this problem, I decided to include the topic in the web help, even though it's pointless for any purpose besides navigation, and exclude it from the search results.
- Tue May 14, 2019 3:01 pm
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Can We link a Page to External Website
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2396
Re: Can We link a Page to External Website
Another solution to this might be to bring an external site into a Flare topic using an iframe.
- Tue May 14, 2019 2:51 pm
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Non TOC topics appear in Search
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17295
Re: Non TOC topics appear in Search
There's also an option to just exclude a particular topic from the search, but not exclude it from the output, so any links to it won't be broken. In the Properties of the topic, on the Topic Properties tab, there's a check box labeled "Include topic when full-text search database is generated....