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Stupid question, never mind.

Amygil, if you do that, is there any way to style that introductory text in CSS? Thanks.

Maybe we are not looking in the same place. I excluded the files that I do not want to be in the build, and then I look at the table of warnings that gets generated when the build finishes (press 'Open Build Log' and select the 'Warnings' tab). If you double-click on a row, it opens the offending ...

Well, here's the issue (I think). I have been excluding topics by placing conditions on the TOC. But this means that topics that are LINKED to topics in the TOC are also included in the build. But those LINKED topics are among those I have excluded in the TOC. This means that when someone searches ...

Brilliant!!!! I will try that this afternoon. Thanks so much! -- Dave

This seems like a really basic thing, but I'm baffled...

How do I find broken links in a particular target? Here's the situation: I have a master TOC with topics A,B,C,D,E. I apply conditions so that Target #1 consists of topics A,B,C. Target #2 consists of topics C,D,E. I want to make sure that ...

Sorry, I don't know if this addresses anyone's issues, but I will mention it. I find that keeping the TOC open in the GUI kills the responsiveness of Flare in a number of areas, such as applying styles, inserting images, opening and closing topics, etc. Perhaps this is unique to my project, which is ...

Thanks very much. I think that will help. Unfortunate that it is on a topic-by-topic basis, but thanks anyway for the pointer. -- Dave

Awesome, I will try that! Thanks!

Thanks, but that doesn't tell me how to do what I want. I tried adding 'back' and 'forward' buttons using the Proxy, but they simply do not appear in the HTML5 output.

Hi. I notice that the toolbar in HTML5 has just a 'Navigate Previous' and 'Navigate Next' button, but no 'Forward' and 'Back' buttons. Why is this? How do I get those buttons to appear? Thanks.

Thanks, but 'ugh'. I think I'll submit a feature request.

Hi. I'm coming from FrameMaker where the TOC item is always identical to the corresponding heading text. It seems that in Flare, if I am changing a heading, I need to independently change the corresponding TOC item. That seems weird and error-prone. Is there a way to force the TOC text to always ...

thanks! great to hear! - Dave

Basically, I have a set of doc packages which all share some common "chapters". So I created a single giant TOC that contains everything, and I'm toggling the chapters for each target using conditions. So imagine that Target 1 has chapters ABCDEF and Target 2 has chapters CDEFGHI. What I did is I ...

OK, will stick with my current approach of conditions for now. Thanks!

Ah, interesting. OK, will check all this out when I get to my work computer. But the issue of multiple TOCs raises another question in my mind. I have to build several "books" or "doc sets" for our several different product versions. Each product version shares some material with other product ...

Thanks very much! I will try that out! -- Dave

Thanks. But there is no "page forward" button or anything like that? I am coming to Flare from FrameMaker, and I think I would find it hard to work without a TOC. Just a flat listing of 1000 topics seems really hard to navigate. Maybe I just need to learn the Flare work style better.

Here's a basic question! If I am editing a topic and I want to advance to the next topic in the TOC, how do I do that? Thanks!

Hi. I'm new to this and kind of baffled by the FrameMaker import process. I got stuck rather immediately. Some questions:
1) How do I handle my numbered lists? I have lists with multiple levels and "continuation" paragraphs, all with different Paragraph formats of course. What's the right approach ...