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I've decided to wait, and I'm thankful that messages posted here warned me; we have a new release going out soon, so I can't afford to waste any time working around Flare bugs.

Meanwhile, every time I open Flare, it prompts me to upgrade. Is there a way to disable the nag?

I have a large number of topics that include embedded GIST scripts. (If you don't know: GISTs are code snippets stored as GitHub repos, which you can link into pages). They are linked into my topics with the JS scripts that GIT generates when you save a GIST; for example: <div class="gistWrappe...

I just figured this out. The problem I ran into is that the target I'm building has the 'Do Not Use "Content" folder in output' flag enabled. The Toolbar javascript references "Content/Resources/Stylesheets/skin.css", which exists in the project itself, but doesn't exist in the o...

I read Dave Lee's posts about creating a skin.css and linking it to enable skin modifications. It all makes sense, but I can't get it to work, and could use some help. Here's what I did (I'm working on a tripane project): 1. Opened my stylesheet (Content/Resources/Stylesheets/SpliceTriPaneStyles.css...

I was just pondering this myself. It looks like you can go into the skin editor, drill down to Search Results | Search Highlight, and then change everything in there. Change Search Highlight background to transparent, and change the font to match the styling in your body. You may have to (i did) rep...

Thanks, AJ. I now understand how to do this.

Definitely not the answer I was looking for

Unfortunately, that's not going to work here, for reasons I won't go into. I assume that global project linking must have a way to deal with this. Someone?

thanks anyway,
gary

Hi, I have a large project that includes 6 "books", all related to our primary product. We're now developing a 2nd product, the documentation for which will include 3 of those books, and a subset of the topics from the other books; some of those 'shared' topics will be moved into a differe...

It's too much to expect users to type in upper case and I have too much else to do, so I'm just going to pass on this. The obvious correct solution is for Flare to figure out how to allow modifications to the stop-words list for HTML outputs.

Thanks again for suggestions.

- gary

If I search for "WITH" it does work, but my SQL "WITH" statement topic shows up below about 20 other topics. That was the original issue - a customer support person complained about the low ranking of WITH in the searches. I've advised searching for "with clause" which ...

If only that worked for my situation ... I see its value for synonyms, but in my case, the word "WITH" already appears throughout the document. Flare ignores it because it is a stop-word in their search algorithm, whether hidden or not. Unfortunately, for HTML-5 outputs, there's apparently...

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It sounds like you're doing fine with Flare/Git, and perhaps Flare 2017 has resolved the issues that many of us were having with Git integration in previous versions. However, if you run into more issues, you can consider using an external Git interface. I'm using SourceTree, which is free, easy to ...

Sigh. Turns out that it doesn't work for HTML5 output. I went through the excellent instructions for changing my 'stop words', built my project, and tested. I went back to the instructions to see what I did wrong, and there, at the very bottom of the instructions page, was a note saying that you can...

Thank you! I didn't know about the stop words.

I've got a large HTML-5 project (doc.splicemachine.com) that includes an SQL Reference Manual. SQL includes a "WITH" clause. When users search for "WITH", they get no results. When they search for "WITH CLAUSE", it shows up, but way down the list. I have WITH and WITH c...

Yes to everything, except one (your #3): I unbund the projects from source control in Flare, and Flare this does not know things are in sync. I depend on Sourcetree for that. If you're bound to A GIT repo in Flare, I don't think things can work as we wish.

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I switched to using Sourcetree w all my Flare projects, and everything is now easy and straightforward.

MadCap is supposedly working on improvements,
but I prefer knowing my source control is flawless.

I tried getting help from MadCap support, but they weren't able to reproduce the problem and thus couldn't solve it. At this point, I have decided to disallow caching of the search results page. This page gets generated when you build a target, so I have to modify it post-build. I do this by running...

It was so unwieldy to deal with in Flare that I gave up on using it.

I simply right-clicked the table tag in the "Show Blocks" area of the xml editor and selected my table style name. Works fine when you generate output, but is impossible to work with in the xml editor.

Hi, We're seeing problems with search not working some of the time. Specifically, customers using Chrome or MacOS search for a term and get back a results page that shows no results; if they then do a refresh and search again, they get the expected results. I'm assuming this must be a cache issue, a...

My current thinking is that I can so something like this with jquery, but I don't know how to do it: When the search bar form field gets the focus, call a function that: 1) refreshes the window (window.location.reload()) ? 2) focus on the search bar again (without triggering the reload) Can anyone c...

I believe there's some javascript (jquery) that could be added, though I'm not sure where. I don't know if it's the search results page that needs to be refreshed (in which case jquery/javascript) could be added to that page that would force a refresh, or if the problem lies elsewhere.

I'm fairly certain this is a cache issue, and in my case, I'm certain that it's specific to Chrome on the Mac. I don't think cookies enter the picture, but I'm not an expert.

I'm using Top-Nav and Flare 12. Various employees and customers of our software are reporting that when they search for something they know is in the docs (i.e. in the Flare search input field), they get a search results page showing nothing found. Doing a browser page refresh (F5) always fixes the ...