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Took a while but I finally found a solution to this.
When setting up the page layouts for my project, I copied a previous layout. Copying is great most of the time, but not in this case! Took me the best part of 2 days to work it out.
In the Page Properties for the Front Matter page type, which I'm ...

Hi,
I have a project that I output to HTML5 and PDF. Working in Flare 12.

The PDF has:
- a cover page (Title layout - no page numbers). TOC properties: Page Layout Break, Page Type = Title
- a version page (First layout - no page numbers) TOC Properties: Page Layout Break - tried setting this to ...

Thanks Nita and Matty for your replies.

This was driving me nuts because I had the TOC setup as you describe above with a chapter break on the first topic page and 1 in the Reset to: field.

However, I had inadvertently selected the Increment number option and not the Reset to option in the Chapter ...

I'm creating a new section in an existing HTML5 project that I also need to output to PDF with numbered headings.

The problem I have is that there is only one topic so far, apart from front matter topics, which has a first heading 1 of "2. Introduction". This should obviously be "1. Introduction ...

Stop looking, I found it!

I added another page after the version page, for the TOC, and the header and footer display ok on this page, but still not on the version page.

Went back and had a look at the output for the PDF that the previous tech writer had produced and realised that the header and ...

I'm using the latest version of Flare 12 to maintain an existing HTML5 project.
In the past a previous tech writer set up a section of this project to output to HTML and PDF. This particular section isn't required as PDF now, but is still output to HTML.
I'm creating a new section of help that must ...

You could make your own header and alias file from the CSV.
To see their format, create a few alias entries in a project, then look at the header and alias files in a text editor.

The header file needs to include the alias and value, in the format below.
You can prepare this in Excel from a copy ...

I'm using Flare 11 to produce a HTML5 tri-pane help system for a mature (25+ years) application.

In the past I used an IDE utility to manage context strings, but that utility doesn't exist any more. For the past 2 years I've used a CSV file to manage mappings for context strings. The CSV file has 2 ...

Thanks for the replies to both of you.
I did wonder shortly after posting this question whether I might need to import the external CSS. I'll give that a try.
Ramon, FYI, the server I specified is an internal testing server and I can browse to that location and see the contents of the CSS file ...

I have a HTML 5 TopNav project in Flare 11.
Some pages of the output are going to be displayed in a slide-out panel of the application's interface. For these pages I've created a separate master page and CSS file because the UX/UI designer doesn't want any Flare headers/footers/navigation etc in ...

Thanks Dave, that did the trick.

Yeah, I think you'll have to create your own topic for the search results, and insert the Search Results Proxy .

Then you'll also need to add a search results skin component to your project (and set its styles), then select that skin in the target.


A word of ...

I have a HTML5 top nav project that I've created a custom side menu for. It's located in the same position as the default Flare side menu.
I have a different home page with its own css file, that I don't want the side menu to appear on. That's easy using display: none.
All other topics use another ...

The (HTML5) online help for our software resides on an IIS web server, which is not publicly available. Also, we don't allow browsing directly to the online help, and only provide access via the software.
The web server is configured to not allow access unless the call to help contains a token ...

Hi Brea,
Did you find a solution to this?
I had the same problem when I first started using Flare.
Take a look at the last couple of posts in this thread for the solution: https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=18306&p=96278#p96278
Cheers,
Ken

Hi all,
We're testing and editing a ...

This is what I use - I worked out the code from MadCap's javascript, and it seems to work for me.

For a HTML5 tripane skin , create a new button and use this as the button event:
MadCap.Utilities.CrossFrame.PostMessageRequest(frames.topic,"expand-all"); setTimeout(function(){MadCap.Utilities ...

I am using Flare 11 and have 2 HTML5 projects, one tri-pane and one TopNav.

For both outputs I would like to be able to modify the built-in Print button to expand dropdown text before printing.

As a plan B, I could add custom Print buttons to both projects to do this, but I can't even see how you ...

Does anyone know if it is possible to do this for a HTML5 TopNav skin?

There is a Logo URL option on the Setup tab, but it only allows you to choose a file from the current project.

I only have one topic in my project that I want to do this for, so the hyperlink isn't pointing to the only topic ...

I get a link to foundation_custom.css on in the head the skin file, i.e. Default.htm, but it isn't automatically added to my topics (which are in a separate iframe in tripane) - which is where I presume you want to use the foundation layout styles?

What I'm trying to achieve in my HTML5 tri-pane ...

Well, I have a project that I created from Flare's Top navigation advanced template, and if I build that with a tripane skin, the home page layout is a mess.
Taking a quick look, it appears the foundation CSS is only included if you're using a top nav skin. I noticed the foundation javascript still ...

Went to Mike Hamilton's advanced workshop on the Wednesday of MadWorld 2015.
The last part of the presentation was about how the new TopNav functionality uses the Zurb Foundation grid of 12 columns to define page layout.
Still waiting on Mike to post his slides of the presentation as he said he ...

Have been using Flare 10 and Flare's native SVN integration for over a year now with no problems.

Installed Flare 11 today and all settings from my Flare 10 project were immediately available, including SVN integration.

However there are some changes that I was not aware of from reading all the ...

Thanks for the info Ramon.
Some of our customers are internal consultants who have to go out on customer sites where there is very poor, or no internet access. Consultants need to have access to documentation at all times to be able to do their job. Some of the documents that we have traditionally ...

I'm looking for some info on adding a function (button) to my HTML5 output to enable users to print a topic, or topics, to PDF.
I've seen an example of this on the http://help.zebrazapps.com/ website, but I don't know if this is producing the PDF dynamically or downloading a topic that has already ...

Thanks Dave, this has been resolved.
I'd changed the setting you mentioned when I decided I didn't want the search filter and also didn't have any filter sets defined.
Cheers,
Ken

When I started my Flare 10 project I decided that I didn't need the Search Filter dropdown list in my HTML5 Output.
Now I've changed my mind and have tried to reinstate it by changing the skin settings but it isn't appearing in the output. I've copied the Search Bar settings I'm using to the Search ...