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- Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:27 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: How to Embed a Screencast.com Video in HTML5
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3385
Re: How to Embed a Screencast.com Video in HTML5
Hi dmcmillion, I'm using Brighttalk rather than Screencast.com, and I found that Flare wouldn't parse the scripts + HTML that I got from them to embed the video. So not the same problem, but you might benefit from the technique I used to solve mine... Luckily the Flare HTML output will run javascrip...
- Tue Nov 21, 2017 3:26 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Discussion on union/intersection of search filters
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1260
Discussion on union/intersection of search filters
Hi all, It seems that some of us have come up against the problem of wanting to combine multiple search filters at once (see https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=29645&p=129418 and https://www.madcapsoftware.com/blog/2012/10/09/filtering-search-results-in-flare-outputs/ ) in...
- Wed Sep 27, 2017 3:27 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Conditional Text
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4271
Re: Conditional Text
Perfect, thank you for the link!
- Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:21 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Conditional Text
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4271
Re: Conditional Text
Hi all,
I'd like to apply a condition to a style but I'm having trouble finding how to do this in the Madcap Documentation, as opposed to applying a style to a condition.
Can someone point me to the article?
Thanks!
I'd like to apply a condition to a style but I'm having trouble finding how to do this in the Madcap Documentation, as opposed to applying a style to a condition.
Can someone point me to the article?
Thanks!
- Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:55 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Turning the menu proxy into an accordion menu
- Replies: 91
- Views: 69215
Re: Turning the menu proxy into an accordion menu
Hi all, I've been hacking my way past this "Flare 2017 r2 breaks javascript" problem all week. My (so far working but very hacky) solution that should hopefully inspire someone to improve it is: var runtimes = 0; var interval = setInterval(function(){ runtimes += 1; // try your thing here,...
- Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:01 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Hide topics based on roles/licenses?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2532
Re: Hide topics based on roles/licenses?
We are trying to tackle the exact same problem at the moment. Showing and hiding content dynamically that is tagged for a role/license (these tags are called condition tags) is easy to achieve on one HTML page. You can even do cool things like control which elements you show/hide with an in-page men...
- Wed Aug 23, 2017 6:47 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Does jQuery work differently in Flare 2017 R2
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6205
Re: Does jQuery work differently in Flare 2017 R2
Sadly I'm also coming to the conclusion that I will have to use a CSS-based solution. For anyone else like me using JS to target Menu Proxies, it can sometimes be cumbersome to construct the right CSS selector if you are trying to target something really custom or arbitrary in a long list (this is w...
- Wed Aug 23, 2017 3:04 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Does jQuery work differently in Flare 2017 R2
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6205
Re: Does jQuery work differently in Flare 2017 R2
This has indeed changed in 2017r2 - I have some small scripts that manipulate the output of a menu proxy using $(document).ready() like you and find that jquery scripts are executing before the new MadCap JS that dynamically generates parts of the page. In this new release the menu proxies (and perh...
- Mon Aug 14, 2017 12:18 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Flare 2017 r2 - OK to upgrade?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7747
Re: Flare 2017 r2 - OK to upgrade?
I upgraded the week before last and had huge problems with build times - I use global project linking across a few small projects, and regardless of the settings on the import file (disabling automatic import) it would still search for import candidates for 5-10 minutes before each build, become unr...
- Tue Jul 04, 2017 1:43 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Demanding a save
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2709
Re: Demanding a save
Hi Leheuvade, I should have explained this better (it's not a hook actually, I use that for something else and got mixed up). I use the Windows Gitbash command line, so what I did was write a "clean" filter that is applied when files are staged, so that anything in the index (e.g. after &q...
- Tue May 30, 2017 11:37 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Demanding a save
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2709
Re: Demanding a save
Hi Leslie,
Glad to hear I'm not the only one this was driving crazy! I made a separate post explaining this and another script I'm working on to handle global project linking.
Best,
Kristy
Glad to hear I'm not the only one this was driving crazy! I made a separate post explaining this and another script I'm working on to handle global project linking.
Best,
Kristy
- Tue May 30, 2017 11:35 pm
- Forum: Source Control
- Topic: Git tips: Removing MadCap attributes/imported files
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3399
Git tips: Removing MadCap attributes/imported files
I wanted to share a few tricks relating about how I use git with my Flare projects (I don't use the integration with git as I prefer to manage it independently). This usually works OK, though I've developed a few scripts to manage Flare weirdness. Disclaimer: I use the gitbash shell on Windows 7 to ...
- Mon May 29, 2017 3:53 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Demanding a save
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2709
Re: Demanding a save
I think it's because flare saves information about the size of the window in the XML, so toggling between XML and text changes/overwrites the window size information. e.g. <html xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd" MadCap:lastBlockDepth="15" MadCap:last...
- Mon Feb 13, 2017 2:05 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Combine multiple Flare topics into a single topic
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6264
Re: Combine multiple Flare topics into a single topic
You could write a post-build event that replaces a placeholder (eg. an xref to the topic) with the topic content. My xrefs have the format "{path}", and I run a post-build XSLT transformation that takes the document at this path and places it into a dropdown menu, replacing the xref elemen...
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 10:10 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: HTML conditional text filters with Search Filter Sets
- Replies: 0
- Views: 989
HTML conditional text filters with Search Filter Sets
Hi All, just wanted to share something I've been toying around with in my HTML output. Inspired by Thomas Tregner's great post about how to use version filters, I've been trying these out in my project (filtering by user role instead of version number, but I'll refer to version here for simplicity)....
- Wed Jan 04, 2017 1:43 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: CSS fails when output type changed from HTML to PDF
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5151
Re: CSS fails when output type changed from HTML to PDF
OK, I guess I just shouldn't expect too much from the PDF processor. I will log a feature request though, in case it does result in better documentation about which attributes are not available.
- Wed Jan 04, 2017 1:33 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: CSS fails when output type changed from HTML to PDF
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5151
Re: CSS fails when output type changed from HTML to PDF
It's the same in the actual PDF output as in the preview.
- Tue Jan 03, 2017 9:35 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Indenting list styles
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1028
Re: Indenting list styles
Not sure if this answers your question but it might be helpful.... If you are preparing your stylesheet in a text editor, you can create special styles to just target li's that are children of other li's (eg. do specific styling for sub-lists). You can use CSS combinators like ">" (direct ...
- Tue Jan 03, 2017 9:25 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: CSS fails when output type changed from HTML to PDF
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5151
CSS fails when output type changed from HTML to PDF
Hi all, I'm interested whether anyone can give me some insight as to why certain aspects of CSS fail to render when when the target's output type changes to PDF (using 2016 r2). I have a scenario where I am using some pretty fancy CSS on the ::before pseudo-element to create a note style that looks ...
- Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:38 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Inline Images Increase Line Spacing
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3083
Re: Inline Images Increase Line Spacing
My solution is not working seamlessly yet, but might help with a few ideas. I've been using em instead of pt to define the image height, so that their height is defined relative to the line height. Also, you might want to play around with the vertical-align property. Here's what my current CSS looks...
- Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:26 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: how do i create an OL style w/ LI # above the LI text
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2401
Re: how do i create an OL style w/ LI # above the LI text
You can also do this easily with CSS using the normal ordered list approach - I like this approach for its versatility as it is easy to switch back to traditional formatting if needed. All you need to do is add the CSS with the example below. The CSS and small HTML example below restarts the numberi...
- Mon Dec 12, 2016 9:29 pm
- Forum: Source Control
- Topic: window size persistence feature and SVN (or other)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10393
Re: window size persistence feature and SVN (or other)
I've been looking at the window size features lately too, and am trying to implement clean and smudge filters with git so that these values are removed when checking files in or out. To do this, define a filter in your local .git/config file for the repo (you need to copy it there manually) by addin...
- Wed Nov 30, 2016 1:24 am
- Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
- Topic: Inline SVG (Flare-processed text) in PDF target
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2275
Inline SVG (Flare-processed text) in PDF target
Hi All :flare:, I'm using flowcharts (SVG files) in my documentation, and would like to be able to include cross-references (perhaps also variables and conditional text) in these graphics. I am using Flare 12 R2 and have Ghostscript and the correct Java version installed so that linked SVGs with sta...