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Nope this document is for internal use in my company, so the best solution I've found so far is to host the SQL file on an internal SharePoint site and put a hyperlink to it in the document.

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I know that you can exclude a topic, index entries, and glossary terms from HTML5 search, but is it possible to exclude content within a topic from the search results?

I'm being tasked with recreating report screenshots in a table so that users can search for the fields in the report ...

UPDATE: I've figured out how to add the SQL files as an attachment in the PDF after it has been built. Does anyone know of a way I can include the attachments in the build?

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I'm creating an internal installation guide for one of my company's products and need to find a way to embed a couple of SQL scripts into the PDF that the user can click on to open in a text editor. The closest I've gotten so far is to add the SQL files to my Flare project and create ...

Watching MadCap's Flare webinars helped me a great deal. It gave me a chance to see how other people use Flare and helped me wrap my head around how I can apply Flare to what I'm doing.

Please let me know if I'm not understanding the problem correctly, but you can apply a specific table style to every table in the project. Create a new table style sheet that has the attributes you want, then click the "Apply Style" button. I haven't tried this personally, but if you select the ...

Submitting a bug or enhancement request is still a good way to add some weight to an issue. The more complaints MadCap has about an issue, the more likely they are to fix it.

1) You can publish a single topic in Flare, though the topic may span multiple pages. This is done by creating a new TOC, adding just that topic to it, then building a target with that TOC selected.

2) What is your current process like?

Hopefully this doesn't get posted along with my previous ...

1) You can publish a single topic in Flare, though the topic may span multiple pages. This is done by creating a new TOC, adding just that topic to it, then building a target with that TOC selected.

2) What is your current process like?

This is happening to me as well, but only when my laptop is plugged in. Works fine when it is unplugged. I checked to see if there are any different display settings for when the laptop is plugged in, but everything is the same except for screen brightness.

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I'm single sourcing HTML/CHM and PDF output and am using cross-references to link to topics, which creates a hyperlink in the online output and a page number in the PDF. However, most of my topics have the Heading 1 conditioned out in the PDF output because we generate topic headings in ...

Lo and behold, I do have a separate license key for Capture. Not sure why I thought it was bundled. Thanks!

I remember that when we first started using Flare (v10), it was bundled with MadCap Capture. I rarely used Capture because I like SnagIt better, but now I'm trying to use the Insert Screen Capture integration in Flare 2017r2 and it's telling me I don't have Capture installed. When did they stop ...

I am trying to figure out how to keep drop-downs from automatically opening due to the search words entered to find the article. In my output, if I enter search text and then find the article, each drop-down that contains the search text open automatically.

I want them to remain closed.


Does ...

My team has all of our company's material in one project. There is not a lot of common content other than formatting, but I think it's easier to just have everything in one place so you're not jumping back and forth.

A good rule of thumb is: if you would ever need to make the same changes in ...

Hello all,

Has anyone ever experienced an issue with Flare.exe getting mysteriously removed from their computer while they were using it? I've opened a ticket with MadCap Support but thought I would also reach out here to see if it has happened to anyone else.

I wasn't doing anything out of the ...

Another good practice from a technical standpoint is to avoid using URL-unsafe characters in the topic filename if you are using any web-based outputs. We recently had a problem with one of our HTML5 help files because one of the topic filenames contained a "&".

1. Open the Target file from the Project Organizer.
2. Click on the "Advanced" tab in the Target.
3. Scroll down to the Generated TOC section and make sure "Use TOC depth for heading levels" is checked. This option automatically adjusts the heading styles of the topics based on how they are arranged ...

Not sure if it will help, but do you have "Use TOC depth for heading levels" checked in the Advanced tab of the Target?

I've run into this problem before, and it usually has something to do with content in the other columns (not the one getting squished) not being able to fit in the cell correctly, which can happen with long unbroken words (such as filenames) or large images.

I've figured it out...I created a copy of the target for Document A to create the target for Document B and forgot to change the Output File name. When I did the Build & Publish, Document A got created first and was then overwritten by Document B because it had the same filename. Sometimes I'm ...

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I'm using a batch PDF target with 22 targets and I did a Build & Publish to a network drive. When I go to the drive to inspect the PDFs, I notice that one of my documents does not have the correct content based on its filename. The content found in the PDF named "Document A" belongs to ...

I submitted a bug...and while doing so, I discovered that the Preview does work, I just have to wait a full 60 seconds before anything shows up in the window . In some cases, it would be quicker for me to just build the target.

I'm getting a similar problem, only I'm not seeing any error messages. I just get blankness where the preview is supposed to be.

It seems to work OK when previewing using a PDF target, but whenever I try to preview using a HTML5 or CHM target, nothing shows up.

I've gotten preview to work with a ...

Hmmm, I haven't used the method described in the Help topic you've linked to.

But I have just started using the new (in Flare 2017) System.LinkedTitle for TOC entries. Works beautifully. Open the TOC entry's Properties. On the General tab, to the right of the Label field, click the little ...