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You can edit the target in a text editor and remove the unwanted conditions from the ConditionTagExpression attribute value. That worked for me.

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I haven't used this directly on Flare output but there's a plugin for rehype to autolink headings - this is the git repo: rehype-autolink-headings. The heading must have an id but you can create one automatically from the heading text by also running rehype-slug.

Could you use something like rehype-slug to process the output? It's a plugin for rehype that adds ids to html headings using the heading slug as the id. I don't think you can restrict it to specific heading levels though.

I think an xref looks for the first block-level element in the body of a topic so do you maybe have the whole topic wrapped in some element? Like a rogue <p> element say?

If you don't mind writing a SQL query then for grabbing the urls you could use the Outgoing Link table in the Analyser database. The "Link" column has the link url in the correct format for a toc entry (that is, relative to the base folder for the project) and you can filter by FileID (to ...

I notice that this doesn't happen if you publish to "Clean XHTML" - don't know why though, there's nothing especially unclean about data attributes is there?

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I've used all three - disclaimer though, our localisation strategy could best be described as "chaotic evil" so I do my best to encourage people to use fewer screenshots. I use Capture with simple GUIs (like a four line LCD screen) but it gets hard to manipulate once you've added several c...

Have you tried running the html output through Pandoc? If the result is acceptable at least you could automate that with a build script. I played with Pandoc a bit and I can't say that the results were wonderful - but there are lots of Pandoc settings you can tweak. It might work ok if your markup i...

I'll add a vote for PowerGrep.

In this case I just put the style in the stylesheet which is specified as the master in my project properties so it defaults into my targets. Tbh, I rarely use the style editing features in Flare because I find it faster and more flexible to just do everything in Notepad++ or VSCode or whatever (and...

If you add a class to the TocEntry (either manually as I did, or by adding it to the skin and selecting it in the properties as people here have described) it just gets added to the classes that are applied to the menu item when you generate the output. Specifically it's added to the list item in th...

You can always add a class manually to a TocEntry by editing the toc file with a text editor. Then target the enclosed link in a stylesheet. <TocEntry Title="Logging on to SPM" Link="/Content/Topics/Interface/SPM/pcd_Logon_SPM.htm" Class="pdf" /> and then in the stylesh...

You could get rid of the headings with some kind of post-build processing. It wouldn't be too arduous if you automated it. That way the links would be generated before you removed the heading. Or you could look for another tool :) I must admit that I sometimes wonder if the pros of Flare outweigh th...

What about putting the text in a data attribute (like data-tooltip)?

Why not just use the original fltoc file - you might need to do some processing (to resolve conditions for example) but it has a fairly straightforward nested toc structure.

That's not a bug - the default xref is configured to return {paratext} which is the text of the first block level element that it finds at the link destination. If you link to a file, that will typically be the h1 element except that you have removed the h1 element. You can configure the xref style ...

Oh thanks - well that's annoying ... actually when you go to their PluginAPI guide here http://docs.madcapsoftware.com/flare201 ... IGuide.pdf it just says "Coming soon". I suppose that's good - they haven't updated that for quite a while.

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I have a few plugins I've written for Flare and I'm noticing problems with Flare 2019. Toolbar items are not loading, but plugins that use context menu options are still working fine. Anyone know what's going on here?

Maybe I'll have to convert all my plugins to run from the context menu ...


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I've used datatables in the past by loading from the master page using requirejs pretty much as described in the issues you linked to. One gotcha is that the path you specify in the requirejs configuration must be from the topic to the script, not from the master page to the script - so if your topi...

Are you saying that your image is wrapped in a div and that - after you set the class on the div - if you then right-click on the image you don't see the option to create an image map? If so, it's possible that you still have the div selected and you're seeing the context menu for the div. You could...

I don't know if this is relevant to your case, but I commonly include links to Word documents in my Word output (I then use a macro to merge the linked documents). No matter where I put the linked document Flare consistently generates an inaccurate link in the output - specifically it always has one...

Not sure if you mean you want to link to an external Word document from within the output or if you want to actually import the document prior to generating the pdf. I import additional Word documents into my Word output by putting a link to the document in a Flare topic and then running a Word macr...

On the Advanced tab of the target there's an option "Use custom file extension for topics".

It converts your file and folder names to lower case when you build the output. It doesn't seem to affect files or folders that Flare creates itself though - like 'Default.htm' - so there's still a bit of cleaning required in the output. I haven't tested to see what Flare does if the case change res...

I'm also having some problems with Bitbucket at the moment and they've reported some problems on their status page over the last few days. Maybe it's not you?