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Hello, I'm trying to figure out a way to create online help for the latest version of a software, while still giving access to prior versions of the documentation corresponding to prior versions of the software, a bit like this: example.PNG I have no idea how to do this. Any advice is very much welc...

I use the exact same configuration for both guides (page layout, etc). It's just that the content of the guide before this topic is different and when this topic comes up, the image comes approximately in the middle of a page for guide A and at the top of a page for guide B. It's normal that it does...

Hi! I have a topic containg an image in a given size that displays well in guide A. For guide B, I use this same topic containing this same image and when building the document, the image jumps to the next page, leaving a huge blank space at the bottom of the previous page. So my question is: How do...

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Simple question. Where do I get the info to create an online help that would feature the help of various versions of a product? Let's say I want my home page to offer online help for FictionSoft V1, FictionSoft v2 and so on. I can't find this info. Can anyone help?

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Thanks so much! I've used the import property in a new local css and it makes all my projects look as expected. Great help

Thanks jasonsmith! Indeed, this workaround seems to work even though I need to adjust some things in my project such as: in my projects, I use h1 as the title for all topics and then use the very handy option "Use TOC depth for heading levels" to have a nice toc. Now, with p.h1_Purple repl...

Hi, I can't find the answer to my concern. h1 displays in the TOC with style p.TOC1. Ok. It's great and I need to keep it. Now, I've created a style h1.Purple. It needs to be displayed in the TOC with style p.TOC1Purple. The thing is I can't find where to set this association, the default link of h1...

Thanks a lot Chrisj ! Your workaround works just fine. I will also submit the bug to the support.

Cheers

Hi I recently moved to Flare 11 and my custom dropdown icons won't display. I used to set them in the dropDown style, by changing mc-closed-image and mc-open-image. Now, if I want the same behavior, I have to change the default DropDownClosed.gif and DropDownOpen.gif which are located in MadCap Flar...

Thanks kwag_myers, I've tried your workaround and it works just fine!!

Thanks Nita. I tried your solution but with no success. That would have been easy though :) During my searches, I had found that vertical alignment is not supported in HTML5. That's why I pasted the piece of code with text line height set to the same height as the image, as it's the only way I've fo...

Hi, I'm having trouble aligning some text with an image. I produce a web output with the new Top Navigation feature and when I look at the result, the output for web and tablet looks fine: web_ok.PNG But the smartphone output looks awful: mobile_nok.PNG Here's the piece of code used (it's what i've ...

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Does anyone know how to apply local formatting just for one medium? I need to adjust some very few parts of my document only for the pdf output, but I don't know how to tell Flare not to apply local formatting (i.e not in stylesheet) to my web output.

Thanks for your help

Flare 10.2.1

Hi, I've downloaded the trial version of Analyzer and have been using it for only 2 days now. It seemed like a great tool but when I want to delete all my unused content files, for some of them, when I'm about to confirm their removal, a message warns me that the file is actually linked to a topic. ...

I got help from the support. Apparently, often, with very long tables, they will automatically break onto the next page because they are too long to fit into the designated space. A workaround for this behavior would be to manually break the table into two pieces, so that at least a portion of the t...

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I've inserted a long table in a topic preceded by a H2 heading.
For some reason, a page break occurs before and after the heading, whereas all break options are set to Avoid. Has anyone encountered this kind of issue?

Thank you

Using Flare 10.2

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I'm sure there is a way to do this: I want to set different column widths within a table and have them differ according to the output. Here's a screenshot to sum up what I mean to do: Thanks for your help

using Flare 10.2

Hi, Does anyone know if there is a way to remove a cell within a table? I've created a table style that has a header row and a header coloum. I want to remove the cell that is at the top left corner. I don't think there's a way to set this in the table style so I want to apply local formatting to th...

Ok, so, Madcap support confirms that PDF doesn't handle background-position values properly. The workaround is to adjust your p.class styles using padding-top and margin-bottom values. (Don't hesitate to put negative values for padding-top if needed). It worked for me, hope it will for all those who...

Thanks for your answers, I opened a request to the support, but no answer yet. If not, I'll try your workarounds but having already spent much time with the designers, I hope I don't have to "hard-craft" the bullets or make a table, cause all my lists work this way and it would be very epi...

Hi, Here's my concern: I have two outputs (html5 and pdf). I wanted to apply specific pictos to list styles and Note style and I've been advised to create p.bullet and p.Note styles. Ok. The thing is, everything displays fine in html5 output, as shown in the first two screenshots. To have a correct ...

Thanks all for your answers. For my part, setting the dropdownhead for print medium seemed to work (I first thought dropdown styles could only be set fo web outputs). However, I had a formating parameter which wouldn't apply, but I sorted it out by setting also the dropdownhotspot style.

Hi, I have a project that needs to be generated in HTML5 and in PDF. For the HTML5 ouput, there are some sections where I use dropdown texts. For the PDF output, I want these sections to appear normally, with an H2 style applied to what corresponds to dropdown heads of the HTML5 output, but can't fi...

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When I build my pdf output, all page layouts are properly applied, except for glossary and index. Aren't these topics supposed to take the last page layout specified in the TOC?
Is there anything I'm missing?
Thanks for your help!

using Flare 10

I tried various things and just came up with the (ridicuslously) easy solution:

Edit the MadCap | xref.TOCPageNumber style

That's it

Hope it helps lost people like me