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You could try creating styles for your code block and instead of using OL use MadCap Flare's auto numbering feature. This allows you to fully control your numbering and the layout of your code blocks which you can have aligned to the left margin or indented. It is more work at first but once you hav...

The fonts folder (and everything in Content folder) should be included in the HTML5 output. My guess is that the fonts aren't being included because the target is using this setting: Advanced > Exclude content not linked directly or indirectly from the target . I've tried that setting in the past a...

You may find this page useful.

https://trac.cyberduck.io/wiki/help/en/howto/s3

and here to read all about CyberDuck

https://cyberduck.io/?l=en

I currently drop my output into CyberDuck which is configured to connect to my S3 bucket automatically.

Developers set it up for me so I don't know the detail. We use S3 a lot so my bit is tiny compared with other content.

Flare has not got S3 integration yet. I believe it is on their list.

If you wish to receive an invitation to the Flare and Write the Docs Slack Groups send me your email by direct message and I will generate an invite.

I use Flare for Customer Facing documentation and we use markdown for developer docs. our docs as code solution is to store the markdown in a git repository with Jekyll to build and publish the static website. I have not had to set up the Jekyll, this is the job of our developers. To edit the Markdo...

With the complexity of your projects I think any solution is going to require some customisation. However for one of our products I simply build the project for each customer and upload to our help hosting area. It is then up to the developers to add the correct urls for each customer to the help li...

I am experiencing similar problems. Not only is the commit process slow I often have to wait for my computer to catch up with me. Be it moving the mouse pointer or typing.

Have you tried cloning the repo on your hard drive and setting that folder as your publish destination? Once you have published your content, you need to add, commit and push to the remote repository. You can use a utility such as Tortoise Git to to perform the Add, Commit and Push thus syncing your...

I have one project where I only publish twice a year or thereabouts. In addition to this, the repo contains other product content that changes between my publication dates. Because other people make changes to the publish gitlab repo, I was encountering difficulties. To get around the issues, whenev...

We have GitLab and I have not had any horror stories to report. However I have learned to use git outside of Flare because sometimes I want to do something such as merging branches, which cannot be done within the GIT integration. Using Tortoise Git as the interface.

Whether SharePoint integration works or not is dependent on the version of SharePoint you are using. We have SharePoint 365 and GIT I use GIT for our main product help but it would be useful to have the SharePoint Integration for non mainstream work. My understanding is that SharePoint 2007, 2010, a...

I tackle this by setting up my variables and using them in Snippets. Create the Variable Then create a snippet file by right clicking on the Snippet folder and selecting Add New Snippet. I give the snippet file a name and, once set up, I can add the variables and style them to include whatever styli...

ADDING IMAGES TO A POST You need to save the screen shot as a file and then click the upload attachment tab, which you will find below the section where you type the content of your post. upload attachment.jpg Now you need to go and select your file to do this click choose file. Upload Attachment Ch...

I build five separate targets and use conditions in the topics to say which text appears in which version. A topic page will contain text with no conditions, text marked with a condition for Fictionsoft1, text marked with a condition for Fictionsoft2 and so on. I currently work with five versions. I...

I have not had any problems with page layouts and find them much easier that trying to achieve the same thing in Word. The advice above is good and if you stick to the rules you should not have any problems. Only difference is I have a page layout set where my empty page contains the text "this...

roboHAL

you were correct it was the responsive output breakpoint. I removed the check mark and it is working as I expect. However my java script to set the width of the contents table to 35% of the screen is now not working. However I can live with that if everything else is working.

Dee

Thank you roboHAL. I will check out the break point option in the skin and will ask MadCap support about using the preview in the Build panel.

Many thanks.


Dee

After hours of tweaking my skin for all mediums I was disappointed to find a problem when viewing the output. Flare View Output Issue 1.png The view has not picked up the tablet and mobile mediums I created. :( Flare View Output Issue 2 Tablet.png Flare View Output Issue 3 Smartphone.png Does anyone...

What about the default set in Windows for opening PDF's?

Did you resolve this problem? I am having a similar problem. The navigation menu is not in the correct position and the logo is on the right with part of it chopped off.

Interesting, having closed Flare down for the weekend the display is now showing my text in the correct colour. So it looks like closing Flare and starting it again has cured the problem.

I will add this to my trouble shooting list.

Hi roboHAL

I am clicking the element already (otherwise I end up changing the wrong element!). I had not thought of "Cleansing" . I will give that a try this morning. Thank you for your suggestion. I will post back later and let you know how I got on with it.

Dee

OK, you have asked a lot of questions here. I will tell you what I did to create page layouts and can assure you that they work. First rule I applied was to only have one of each page type I require in the page layout set. I do not have any proxies in my page layouts. I create a topic page with the ...

I am currently going through an exercise to update the HTML5 output to match some changes in our brand guidelines. I have been fiddling about with the settings and now have a situation where the sample display to the right of the Skin Settings panel is not matching what I have set in the settings pa...