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Thanks. Love to hear that a name change is planned.

I'm sold on Flare and I love it, but there is always room for improvement with everything - right? I have always found the terms used for the Source Code Editor and WYSIWIG Editor odd, ambiguous and confusing to new users. Flare used "Text Editor" to describe the XML source code editor and...

Feature request made.

Thank you.

From what I have read <a name=> is no longer going to be supported in HTML5. This makes me wonder if Flare is going to update to the new <a id=> for bookmarking, cross-referencing and CSH calls. Or at least provide us with an option to select <a id=> for linking. I'm starting to see conflicts now wh...

Hi Dave... Thanks for responding! We are actually loading up a single Topic Page with multiple snippets to present our manuals online. This allows our customers to click a single icon and print the entire dynamic manual. It seems to work very well. :lol: Not a single issue. What I would like to do i...

This message is really aimed at Dave Lee, since we are using his skin-less design, but anybody else out there who knows a solution to this is welcome to chime in. We would like our browser printouts to match, as closely as possible, our PDF builds. To do this, we need to find a way to insert our PDF...

This continues to be an issue in Flare 12 WebHelp. We are using a responsive css "max-width: 80%" and Flare is duplicating our images, renaming them with a dimension and renaming the img html to match the new names. If this is a feature, it's overkill and needs to have an OFF button. :( &q...

I'd like to perform a quick survey to see how long Flare uploads generally take an average user when publishing to an outside host like Amazon Web Services. Currently, I can upload an entire Global Project with 10 linked projects (730KB) to our local web server in about 5 minutes. When uploading thi...

Just a quick update... I believe we have solved our issues publishing into existing skins. The solution is we must use the original project, which seems like a pretty basic Flare rule, but my head was spinning trying solve multiple Flare issues. I solved many over the last week. Our site is starting...

Thanks again David. You are very gracious to help us out with this! :oops: Do you have multiple projects, and/or multiple targets? We do have multiple projects (100s) and multiple targets (20). To clarify this, we have 20 widgets and we are hoping to have 20 flare websites - one for each widget. We ...

Hi David. Thank you very much for responding. we are actually using Craig Wright's custom skin as described here: http://straygoat-technicalauthor.co.uk/accordion-menu-in-madcap-flare-part-one/ I'm assuming this is a top-nav skin and you are saying we cannot merge projects with this skin??? If this ...

I seem to be having issues publishing my content into an existing skin and I'm not sure my target settings (and possibly others) are correct. Right now we have one Flare user who is publishing to a server with a custom skin. I need to be able to publish my content into this skin without disrupting h...

Thanks Paul, nice Venn diagram! Here's my 2 cents: I believe it will be beneficial for the forum and Flare documentation to start separating out single-sourcing from multi-channel publishing - only because it helps bring focus to user issues. In my opinion, single-sourcing includes the elements Flar...

Just to reduce confusion... shouldn't this subject be discussed under a new topic titled "multi-channel publishing"?

This doesn't appear to be a single-sourcing subject. Correct?

Thank you for your response Sabine. I've heard before that a "...a topic is a somewhat complete entity...", but is this what you really want for single-sourcing? Unless you are single-sourcing complete manuals or large portions of a manual (i.e, complete entity), it seems like it would be ...

I would like to hear everyone's opinion about single-sourcing with snippets. My company is considering saving all reusable stepped procedures (avg. 1-10) in individual snippets rather than topic files. From what I have seen, snippets appear to be the way to go for "true" content single-sou...