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KayJay

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...

KayJay

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...

KayJay

Perfect, thank you for the link!

KayJay

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!

KayJay

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,...

KayJay

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...

KayJay

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...

KayJay

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...

KayJay

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...

KayJay

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...

KayJay

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

KayJay

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 ...

KayJay

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...

KayJay

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...

KayJay

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)....

KayJay

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.

KayJay

It's the same in the actual PDF output as in the preview.

KayJay

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 ...

KayJay

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 ...

KayJay

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...

KayJay

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...

KayJay

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...

KayJay

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...

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Re: How to Embed a Screencast.com Video in HTML5

Discussion on union/intersection of search filters

Re: Conditional Text

Re: Conditional Text

Re: Turning the menu proxy into an accordion menu

Re: Hide topics based on roles/licenses?

Re: Does jQuery work differently in Flare 2017 R2

Re: Does jQuery work differently in Flare 2017 R2

Re: Flare 2017 r2 - OK to upgrade?

Re: Demanding a save

Re: Demanding a save

Git tips: Removing MadCap attributes/imported files

Re: Demanding a save

Re: Combine multiple Flare topics into a single topic

HTML conditional text filters with Search Filter Sets

Re: CSS fails when output type changed from HTML to PDF

Re: CSS fails when output type changed from HTML to PDF

Re: Indenting list styles

CSS fails when output type changed from HTML to PDF

Re: Inline Images Increase Line Spacing

Re: how do i create an OL style w/ LI # above the LI text

Re: window size persistence feature and SVN (or other)

Inline SVG (Flare-processed text) in PDF target