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Hi all

I've been asked to add some text to the bottom of the side navigation pane of one of Flare's side nav skins.

The skin editor does not cater for this. Is there a script that I could add to the skin to enable this?

Any help much appreciated.

Best wishes

Davbo

Many thanks for your help. The layout problems I've experience are just general untidiness, with things not aligning correctly, and graphics not displaying properly (or sometimes not at all). I'll try making a new page layout and stylesheet section as suggested and see how it goes. Previously, I'd i...

Hi all I usually output to HTML5 and PDF from my projects. However, it would be useful to also have a temporary Word version of the output for review purposes and other uses. As I understand it, Word output requires a separate page layout from PDF and other tweaks. Any time I've tried, the Word docu...

Hi all

Just in case it's of interested, MadCap support have confirmed that Central does not support any server-side scripting for security reasons. However, custom JavaScript is no problem.

Cheers

David

Hi all
Can anyone tell me if PHP scripting is supported on MC Central? I have a project that uses a third-party search engine that uses PHP scripts. However, on building, the script does not run. The PHP file instead downloads locally.
Any help or ideas much appreciated.
Thanks, David

Hi Dave Just to give you some background information. I'm trying to build a documentation portal that users can access to scroll, view, search and download across a range of documents in different projects. The Tripane layout has the advantage of allowing users to view documents while still seeing t...

I could use a Side Nav skin, but I'm keen to have this project display with a Tripane layout. So basically I'd like Tripane but with side nav accordion menu ....

Hi all I have a project that uses the HTML5 Tripane template. I would like to style the navigation pane so that is displays an accordion (smartmenu) menu instead of the traditional menu. I have found a post from Dave Lee (thanks Dave) that details how to modify the Tripane skin, and have installed t...

Hi Dave

Many thanks for the help. I hadn't noticed that section of the skin editor.

BTW, is it possible to shift the position of the icon, for example to place it at top right-hand side of the menu item?

Cheers

Davbo

Hi all I'm building an HTML5 project using the Tripane skin. I'd like to modify the menu by changing the 'book open' and 'book closed' icons to arrow icons. There doesn't seem to be a way of doing this from the skin editor, so I think I have to modify the catapult skin directly in the text editor. I...

Further to my last post, adjusting the vertical-align property for the ul element seems to have done the trick

Thanks again for your help.

Hi

Many thanks for your help.
I can't see anything wrong or unusual with the css styles, but I'll persevere.
Very mysterious.

Cheers

Davbo

Hi all I've noticed that in my PDF output, bullet points (the round icons) are not centered on the accompanying text. They line up with the lower edge of the text. It doesn't happen with online output. Does anyone know how to fix this. I can't see anything in the css stylesheet. Help much appreciate...

That's right. The output is still easily accessible. Just a glitch.

Button still does not work even on highlighted completed PDF builds. (It does work on HTML5 builds.)

The build PDF is accessible by other means, but not the View Output button.

Hi all

I've just upgraded to Flare 2018, and find that after building PDF output the View Output button in the Build window no longer works. However, I can still select and double-click the build to open the PDF.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Hi all
Does anyone have any experience or tips on delivering Flare output on a native or web-based app? Any advice or tool recommendations much appreciated.
Thanks and all the best
Davao

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Hi Alex, Dave

Many thanks. Problem sorted.

Cheers

David

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Hi all

Just wondering if anyone has experience and tips on how best to convert multiple drop-down text section into togglers.

Anything that might speed things up over doing each one manually would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Davbo

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