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I'm running into the same issue. FontAwesome was easy to set up and works as expected in HTML5, but nothing I do can get it to work in PDF. I tried installing the older v4.7 of FontAwesome and that didn't work with Flare 2023r2, but even if it did I need to use the latest version.

When I try to build my primary target using Flare 2021r2 or newer, I get an error message that says "Build failed: An item with the same key has already been added." This happens consistently, with every build. I am building an HTML5 output. The messages in the log file indicate that it is...

I am looking for a way to add a (scripted?) variable on a page that gets an automatic count of the number of topics with a specific concept marker. The end goal is to have a knowledge base home page with a list of categories matching the Flare concepts, and after each category name will be a number ...

I have built a knowledge base for my company using Flare (output is HTML5 Top Nav). What I have done, which received a lot of positive responses, was build a small HELP button that floats on the side of every web page in our client user portal. When you click the HELP button, an iFrame window pops o...

I have an HTML5 output and I have just recently started adding glossary terms into my project in order to have the term definitions show as a result when users do a search for the term. The goal is to quickly and efficiently give users the information they are searching for. The problem that I've ru...

I've found that I can force a link to open in a popup window by opening the text editor and manually adding the following class after the href: <a href="../p_subfolder/ref_Topic.htm" [color=#FF0000]class="MCTopicPopup MCTopicPopupHotSpot MCXref xref"[/color]>Target text</a> This ...

Don't know if you've figured this out or not, but it seems that the Flare v12 update removed popups for topics and links other than text popups. You can manually get around this by just creating a link as normal (to a topic or to media) and adding the following style into the link in the text editor...

I have put some videos in my Flare project, and I am trying to make them fit in with the pages. The two things I really want to be able to do is to have an embedded video that is initially small and thumbnail sized and then when it is clicked it expands and begins playing. The functionality for this...

For victoriasmith, it sounds to me like Cardinal Richelieu added a small image that is a preview of the video and made that a link to the video that opens it in a popup. Then they placed the hyperlinked image inside of a standard drop-down hotspot so it is hidden until the hotspot is expanded. Maybe...

So what you're saying is that the best way to do this is to apply the auto-number feature to each paragraph or create an ordered list and basically manually add a paragraph between each list item, correct? Sorry if I am misunderstanding, I am still relatively new to Flare and have only basic knowled...

I am trying to create a custom formatted ordered list where the step number is above and left aligned with the text. It should look similar to below: Step 1. This is where the text goes. Step 2. This is where the text goes. I am having a hard time figuring out how to make the numbers show above the ...

I have a project that is meant for both web and print. I created a style for images that automatically makes them a clickable thumbnail in the web output but not in the print output. For some reason though, when I look at a topic in the Print Layout and change the Print Size of an image, it also mak...

That seems to match the results that I am getting, but if that is the then I need to find some way to switch back to an implied "or" or have some sort of tag for keywords to be recognized in a search phrase that will automatically return related topics specific to that keyword. Otherwise t...

I'm trying to improve the search results for my HTML5 Top Nav project. I've just learned about keywords and how to add them into topics (though I am still unclear if I should only add one keyword per topic, mark every used instance of the keyword, or just assign a topic to a keyword) and I have also...

You can do this fairly simply using a short script. This is an example of a master page: * The link to the home topic is inside a span tag with an ID of 'home-link' (#home-link). * A jQuery script uses prependTo to move the link (#home-link) inside the breadcrumbs container (div.MCBreadcrumbsBox_0)...

I've just started using image maps and I have encountered a problem. When I set my image to have a max width that equals 90% so that the image always fits the size of the web page, the hyperlink areas in the image map DO NOT resize with the image. Has anyone else encountered this and is there a simp...

I have created a topic that provides an overview of the home section of an application. I have added a large image that is a screenshot of the application home (dashboard). My goal is to do something similar to an image map where I specify clickable areas of my image, but instead of making those are...

I also encountered this issue, so it seems it has not yet been fixed.

I have added a few selectors to the default MadCap | xref style so that when I create cross references I can choose the selector styles in instances where I need the formatting to be different than normal. However, I have just recently noticed that the Hover and Focus pseudo classes for the xref sty...

So I want to create a section of expanding text at the end of a long paragraph. I want to have text that ends in "... (read more)" and when a user clicks on that section of text the rest of the paragraph is shown. My issue is that I want the newly shown text to show up BEFORE the "rea...

Thanks for your help guys. This solved the problem perfectly. The best suggestion was actually to just use the pre-existing System variable set and select the variable called "Title" that is for the title of the topic, though it seems to take the first heading rather than the actual topic ...

I have used Flare to create an online knowledge base with a bunch of topics that fall under several categories. My goal is to be able to export all of these topic files as PDFs, and each individual topic needs to be it's own short PDF (because each topic is independant of the others, which is why I ...

I was browsing the MadCap help site teaching myself about Flare and I noticed on several pages that the topic toolbar on their page had a button for PDF Guide (see below) that opened the same topic in PDF form. How can I add this button to my own project and how do I link it to my PDF output? I have...

I am building a knowledgebase project that has many topics (web pages) with steps for fixing certain issues. I have also built a TOC and a page layout to brand and format the printed version of the topics, so that when I build my print output I have PDFs that look nice. My problem is that when I bui...

Thank you for your help. This worked as I wanted. I had actually tried this before, but I had been doing it wrong. I would add a new list item and then make it a paragraph item, which threw me off because it was still numbered. I wouldn't have thought to make the list item a paragraph item so that t...