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Thank you very much for your reply.

Thank you for your reply. Could you give me a bit more information about how you use Amazon S3 bucket? Do you use another tool to organize files, upload, etc in there? TIA!

Adriana

Hi everyone, I am looking for suggestions for content hosting. Here is my scenario: -a single help project for EN -a single help project for FR Each project has multiple conditions coding the content, for various audiences. Some content can just be on the web, some must be private (either behind a l...

Hi everyone, I am working on Flare, multiple projects. We are starting to get move involved in content re-use, so I am experimenting with the idea of having a parent (master) project, and then other projects that link to specific topic files, in the parent project, that we re-use. Our parent project...

Hi everyone,

I'm using Flare with GIT; and I am being told that I have a conflict when I try to push/pull files. However, I have no idea what that conflict is (which file) - where can I see my conflicts, to resolve them?

TIA,
Adriana

Thanks @Nita - you are right, it was an empty folder issue.

Do you have any experience with deleting folders? And why GIT may or may not actually delete them?

Thanks
Adriana

Ok - as an update. GIT can't commit empty folders, so we added a single topic to each folder, and now they have committed. But I have also deleted some sample folders that came with the project we started, and my colleague is still seeing the folders I deleted...

TIA
Adriana

I have checked out my Flare project, added a bunch of folders, committed, and pushed. We are using GIT. However, when my colleague pulls the project, they do not see my new folders. I am not sure what I am doing wrong? If anyone has an tips or suggestions, I'd be grateful.

TIA
Adriana

Hi everyone, We are working on a Flare project, bound to GIT. I have created a topic template file and added it and pushed/committed to GIT. But my colleagues cannot see the template file in their Flare projects/instances, even though they have pulled, updated, etc. Thoughts? Suggestions? TIA -Adriana

For anyone else who may have gotten stuck... For some reason we couldn't get around the certificate authentication. So my Sys Admin downloaded a Flare trial, created a sample project, and loaded it to the repository himself. I was then able to import his project into Flare, which bypassed the certif...

A bit more detail; I think I am getting stuck at the certificate stage. For some reason, I seem unable to authenticate my public and private keys; because I am unable to find a way to get my username and password for GIT into Flare, anywhere. I tried this - https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopi...

This did not work for me - when I went through all the steps, and then opened Flare and the project I had created, and tried to push, I was not asked for my credentials; instead I was stopped at the Certificate Specification page, and I was still unable to authenticate. Did anyone else run into this...

Hi everyone,

Starting a brand new Flare project, and I want to bind it to GIT. My Sys admin has provided a key, and set up our repo, but I'm sure where to put my GIT password inside Flare - so I seem unable, so far, to access the repo and push files? I am hoping someone can help me!

TIA,
Adriana

Hi everyone, Brand new to the Flare-verse, just getting started but wanting to make sure we start where we need to be, so that we don't have to backtrack. We will be doing the following: - one master EN project, HTML5 output - one FR project, HTML5 output EN and FR projects linked; tri-pane HTML5 ou...

Thanks for responding. This sounds like a bit of a nightmare process. Does anyone have suggestions for a better process?

TIA,
Adriana

Hello, I am brand new to both Flare and Lingo and I am trying to figure out how I would use these two tools, to manage our help content. We want to create and output both EN and FR help output (HTML). Our process is as follows: 1. Author in English, in Flare. Build target to English HTML output. 2. ...

Hi everyone, I am brand new to Flare and new to the forums - TIA for help! My project and desired outcome is as follows: We author in English (3 authors), translate into French, and then need to output to EN and FR HTML5 outputs (that can be hosted on an S3 bucket somewhere, or something). We also n...

Great, thank you Dave. Do you have any advice on learning more how to do the direct to 'destination' website/hosting? Or the folder option you spoke of?

Hello, I am looking at using a single-source authoring tool in order to control and author using topics and conditional text. However, I want to know if can publish Flare to a website without the assistance of a development team; for example, could my team get setup so that we publish when we want, ...

I am just creating it and building it to my desktop. So the whole project, including the .chm file, is being saved to my desktop.

Hi everyone, I'm creating a great little Flare project, and the primary output is HTML Help (I need a .chm file). It builds no problem, no errors or warnings, but when I say 'view output' the page is blank. It says: This page can’t be displayed Make sure the web address //ieframe.dll/dnserrordiago...

Hi everyone, I'm trying to publish a brand new project (very simple - 1 topic). When I publish as an HtmlWebhelp (I need a .chm file) I get warnings: HHC3000: Invalid syntax: A <PARAM> tag appears outside of an <OBJECT> tag. All I have is a single topic with about 3 sentences of text (I'm just testi...

WOW! Now I feel really dumb(of my own accord) - for some reason, I could not understand that webhelp and HTML help were different types of output... I've created a new project from an empty shell, and selected HTML help and there it is! I am very sorry for my ignorance - thanks again for answering :...

I did read the link you sent, thank you. And my apologies, I'm not trying to be difficult but I'm not understanding. Is there an actual file generated with an extension of .chm? When I generate webhelp output I see a Content, Data, and Skin folder. I also see .htm files and a javascript file. But no...

Hi Nita, thanks for the link and for getting back to me so fast! Sorry - so this probably sounds really dumb. So I understand that the official name is Microsoft HTML Help; but is there an actual file type that Flare outputs with a .chm extension? Or when I generate or save a help file as online hel...