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Try manually creating a snippet link to a topic *.htm file. <MadCap:snippetBlock src="Topic.htm" /> It appears to build without errors and work properly (e.g. relative links and snippet conditions work), but you'd need to test it properly yourself. Forgive me but I am a bit confused, you ...

Just wanted to try to revive this in case anyone has discovered anything about how to do this?

Is there anyone else out there who has insight into this topic? It seems silly in this day and age to not have the ability to create online documentation that scrolls across many topics, especially as far as developers go.

Hi Bonita, I have the same issue. My company created a developer portal site in Sitecore and I produce PDFs using Flare on the same information--which means we have a silly binary process instead of single sourcing. Initially I got here and wanted to change all this, but it seems it would be very di...

I am just thinking that nowadays web pages tend to scroll longer, especially those geared toward developer documentation, because people like developers are adept at using the search function built into their browsers. Topic-based authoring is what Flare is all about, but topics are short chunks of ...

So let me see if I understand correctly... if you want one long scrolling web page in Flare with multiple topics on that page, the only way is to turn to those topics into snippets and insert them into one topic?

I am planning to construct a documentation web site based on the same content contained in topics that I use to put out PDF documents. However, one of the requirements of the web site is that often these multiple topics, which would be individual sections or sub-sections in a PDF, are displayed on t...

Thanks Paul, your reply is very succinct, I appreciate it!

Anyone have any advice on whether things like repetive heading labels of tables, and repetitive pieces of content in the tables (example: "not applicable" or "n/a") are better made into variable or snippets? I know variables are for short pieces of content, but I am wondering if ...

AlexFox wrote:That's just a custom class called "URL" for variables. Presumably it's just used to style plain text variables as a clickable URL would be.

Understood.

Well, in a PDF output these links work--so I guess they must be there. The variable is not a hyperlink. The link works in a PDF because that's a feature of Adobe Reader - it detects URLs in plain text, and converts them to hyperlinks. In Adobe Reader, select Edit > Preferences , select General , th...

I think MadCap has the MadCap:variable.URL style and when I make a URL into a variable, when I insert that variable it automatically uses that style. Or do I have this wrong? Couldn't say. I've been using Flare since version 1 so maybe what you write about was some new feature somewhere along the w...

So would you use variables, for example, for URLs? I regularly put URLs and email links in individual snippets. If I were to make them variables, they wouldn't have any "links" behind them. I think MadCap has the MadCap:variable.URL style and when I make a URL into a variable, when I inse...

So would you use variables, for example, for URLs? I regularly put URLs and email links in individual snippets. If I were to make them variables, they wouldn't have any "links" behind them. That's strange, because somehow I have URLs as variables and they do have links... I don't know how...

So would you use variables, for example, for URLs?

I know there have been a handful of discussions about snippets vs variables here in the forum in the past, but I am still trying to discover a good basis for deciding one or the other. Does anyone out there have a decision process for choosing to snippetize or variable-ify some piece of content or a...

Does anyone have experience with inserting snippets inside tables? My problem is as follows: We have multi-column tables with column styles set that make the columns varying sizes, in %, of the entire table. So for example, column 1 would be set to 25%, column 2 to 40%, column 3 to 35%. One column o...

Thanks for that, Nita--I am just wondering if finding the correct import file to re-import isn't going to become cumbersome as I add more and more stuff to the Master... how do you manage that?

Thanks, that solved it!

Hi all, I am confused about the Global Project Linking aspect of re-importing. I have a "Master" project as well as child project. I know that GPL does an auto-reimport when you generate output in the child project--but what is the use of that for things like variable sets when, say, you a...

I am trying to use global project linking to an import condition tag set from a Master project. For some reason, Flare's Import Wizard does not list Condition tag sets as one of the options in the drop-down menu. Is there something I am missing here?

My company is using Sitecore CMS for a developer help site. We want to single-source content from Flare, pushing it to Sitecore, instead of having everything duplicated manually. Our developers aren't sure how to go about this, as apparently you can't just link html files to identifiers in Flare to ...

I might add that at current, I am the sole owner of these projects, so my concern is not interference from others, only breaking the styles, variables and conditions that exist in topics currently, not to mention any other problems I am not foreseeing here--I haven't even begun to consider how cross...

Has anyone ever faced a scenario where running Flare causes authentication pop-ups to come up in *other* applications while on proxy server, and even results in the locking up of Windows account when the computer is locked or restarted? Any ideas about what causes this?

Re. Conditions and variables, aren't one or both of them subject to getting broken inside the topics when you, say, change the name of the condition or variables, or the locations of those files (the global project linking will involve moving the stylesheet up to the global project as well as some v...