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My wife has been transferred so we are headed to Dallas. What's the tech writing market like down there for guys like me with Flare, FM, training, and graphics skills?

Thanks in advance!

D'oh! So simple. Thanks Rob!

I'd like to modify the top nav area of my Top Nav project (the area where the logo, search bar, and TOC are). Specifically I need to replace the search bar with a different 3rd-party search bar. I've figured out how to do it on the home page. I just can't seem to figure out what file to look in or i...

Can you call/use/enable a different search engine instead of the default Flare search engine for TopNav (but still use the pretty-looking GUI)?

Zoom looks promising and I've got the basics to work. The next thing I have to figure out is how to connect the topnav search bar to the Zoom search engine. Haven't researched this yet but any hints would be appreciated.

Thanks Leon, that looks promising! I'm going to test it out this afternoon. <fingers crossed>

Looks like it is possible, but only if you are NOT using the Top Nav skin. :( Here's the answer I got from tech support: The native Flare search engine does not have the capability to search non-XHTML files embedded in your project. In order to search the content of a PDF, you can enable Server Base...

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Our top nav help has standalone single-source topics and topics with links to PDFs. We have added the PDFs to the project in the Content Explorer and link directly to them there. We want to be able to search these PDFs in our compiled help. Questions: * How can we get Flare's search engine to includ...