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We have three targets: A: User and Admin topics B: Admin only topics C: User only topics B and C are used in a new version of the software where the Admin help is controlled by user roles. Older versions still use A. Currently, if I make a change in TOC A (User and Admin), I add the change to the TO...

When you in the Online Help and click the Print button, the PDF that is generated displays the URL at the bottom of the page. Is there a way to hide it or display something else?

I identified the problem. The stylesheet is for web and print. In the @media print section, h1 is set as page-break-before: always; I add @media pdf, h1 page-break-before: avoid; and it didn't work. Any ideas how to get it to work? But then again, I don't want it to work that way for PDF Targets I w...

In our online help we have a standard Print button in the toolbar. When it is clicked it should produce a PDF of the current topic, but in this project it produces a blank page and then the topic. What is really strange is that in a clone of the project (or at least it should be) it prints without t...

After troubleshooting I found the problem was in my stylesheet. I had moved the print styles to a separate stylesheet but I didn't remove @media print and the brackets { } around the code. After deleting @media print and the brackets TWNote no longer displays in print output. Yea! I'll take your adv...

Thanks, that works. Now I have an additional related problem, I have a condition and a paragraph style called TWNote. Online it Excludes from the build, no problem, but in the PDF or Word it still displays. Fortunately I caught it before it went out. Anyway to stop it? It's so quick to apply the par...

In my stylesheet I have a paragraph style that uses a text prefix of "Review:" in the color red: p.Review { font-style: italic; mc-conditions: 'Default.Review'; background: #E9CBD0; mc-auto-number-format:'{color red}Review: {/color}'; } Problem is with the Word output, it displays as follo...

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We have several MadCap projects and we are looking into purchasing Lingo. As I've worked with MadCap over the years I have compiled a list of tips, do's and don't and work arounds. Anyone have any tips for when you first start working with Lingo? Any issues that you run into?

Thanks!

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Thanks, that's what I thought. Now I hope they can figure out how to do it

I've also seen it where it slides out from the right side about 4 inches.

I've seen this at another company and I can't figure out how to duplicate it. When you clicked the help icon in their software, the online help is displayed in a simple clean window without showing the user bookmark bar, open tabs, and back/forward arrows.

Any idea how this is implemented?

Thanks, Bob, that solution worked for me.

Word > File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Trusted Locations > Add new location

We have just started using GIT and Bitbucket for source control, so I am a newbie with all of this, and I am looking for advice as to how I should structure the Flare projects. Currently we have a GIT Project called, "Documentation" containing 10 Flare Repositories. My question is, where s...

I am looking for some feedback regarding indexing. The last few large companies I have worked for did not include an index in their online help, the current company does. Do most companies no longer include an index in their online help and documentation? Is there a use case?

Thanks. We are using MC 2020 and html5 on all of our current projects, except we have a client/server project in an old language, Delphi and won't render the TOC in html5. I'm not sure what's going on since I'm not a developer. Any suggestions?

I was wondering if you can put links at the top (left-aligned) for Contents | Index | Search and I want to remove the accordion links at the bottom of the TOC in WebHelp.

I finally resolved my problem. I had to declare every variable with 00002E before the name. MadCap|variable.Company\00002ECompanyName, MadCap|variable.Company\00002ECompanyShort, MadCap|variable.Company\00002EFax, MadCap|variable.Company\00002EPhoneNumber, MadCap|variable.Company\00002EStreetAddress...

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I've loaded up my html5 output to SharePoint and when I click on Default.htm the page, the online help doesn't render in the browser. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Hi, When I run the styles report it lists the error 00002E (below) for all of my variables. Very annoying when I'm trying to cleanup a project. Error : Undefined Style (selector): MadCap|variable.Company\00002ECompanyName I tried the code below per an old thread, but that didn't fix it either. Any o...

I asked support about a Used Styles report and they said that it is under consideration. But, I finally came up with a work around :) . I removed the stylesheets from the project and ran the Styles report. All used styles display in the "Undefined Styles" header. For the next step I copied...

I see a report for Unused Styles, but of course I really want a report with "Used Styles" so I can quickly go across multiple projects and get a consensus of the used styles. Is there a way to do this? The stylesheet has about 60 styles with about 20 being used in most cases. Thank your fo...

Thank you for the replies. Strange why you have to manually set it, why isn't it automatic if that's the version of Word you are using, or at least you should be able to set it at the project level. Oh well. Imagine most people have web output.

I'm running MC V12 and Office 2013 (.docx), but the Word output is .doc, how do I get it to output to 2013 .docx?

In case anyone else has this question....So I went to Support and it looks like it can be done. I thought mini might work but it doesn't, even though the dialog asks you for the TOC depth. It still reads the mc-toc-depth and if it has a number it displays.

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Typically, my TOC goes to Heading 4, but for this target we only want H1. Anyway to do this?

I tried: <MadCap:tocProxy style="mc-toc-depth: 1;" /> and it still prints to H4.

Thanks!