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Hello, I am having an issue where any meta description that I add to a topic does not show in the search results. The results are still showing the first 300 characters that are in the topic. This happens with any method I use to add the description to the topic. I'm just looking for some ideas beca...

In case this helps anyone: I was looking into creating a watermark for our online output only for some pages. I didn't want to create a separate stylesheet and deal with attaching it to some pages and not others (mostly because I find that difficult to track / remember down the road). I ended up cre...

Just an FYI for anyone who is curious. I did not find a fast way to do this within Flare. But I did find a script that will add the ids when the page loads, which works just fine with the other script that I am using to create and copy links to specific sections of the webpage. var $headers = $('bod...

Hello, Does anyone know of a way to automatically create ids for certain tags within Flare? I'm working on adding a script to our documentation that allows users to click a button that will create and copy a link to a specific section of the page (similar to Chrome's new dynamic linking extension bu...

Hello, I'm working on creating an online format for our pdf manuals. We have several existing images (pngs) that look great and are sized for print. When I resize (reducing the size) any of the images for the html target, the images come out blurry. I would like to find a solution that does not invo...

Hello all, Our team has an online help system for the major software product that we work on. We also have different but related products that have manuals in PDF format. We are in the process of creating online outputs for our PDF manuals. We know the "hows" of accomplishing this in Flare...

Thank you so much, Nita!
I thought that was what I had needed to do, but it wasn't showing any auto-numbered text at all. I must have created a typo somewhere in my css because when I tried again, it worked.

Hello, In my stylesheet I have divs for different types of warnings we use. It is set up to have auto-numbering for the p:first-child as shown below. div.NoteWarningGeneral p:first-child { mc-auto-number-format: '{b}WARNING{/b}: '; } This generally works as I want it to; however, when there is addit...

Thanks again! I haven't tried it yet, but I would never have thought of writing it that way.

Much thanks @doloremipsum, I ended up grouping the div tags in the way that you suggested, and it's saving a lot of space in our stylesheet. Related to this, we use auto-text to insert "warning", "important", etc. depending on the type of note it is. It is set up using p:first-ch...

Hello, I'm trying to figure out a way to clean up our stylesheet and simplify some of the div tag styles that we use for notes. A lot of the notes are for our print manuals, but they are sometimes used in our online help. The notes got a little bit out of control and have multiplied since originally...

Thank you so much for the quick reply!

I've used this and it works great in my side nav output. However, when I shrink the browser to tablet and mobile views, the button does not work. Anyone else experience this and/or have some solutions?

Hello, I recently switched to a side navigation output. I added a topic toolbar skin and added a home button to it. In the event field, I added javascript to open the home page link. When I build the project, the home button works when I'm in a topic that is not within a folder. But if I try the hom...

I've been researching the same thing. From what I understand, the style change is for the WebHelp skin, not the Tripane skin. I haven't found a way to add a new style to the tripane skin for different icons, which is slightly infuriating me because it seems like it should be an easy add. It is also ...

Hello, I've been having a similar issue where we have icons within the text, sometimes followed by a period. The line will break before the period, starting the next line with a period. Non-breaking space doesn't work because we don't want a space before the period. Anyway, I recently discovered the...

Hello, Just curious if there is a way to include an unlinked title topic of your current topic when using relationship tables. I have a list of topics that are steps, and I want to maintain the same numbering throughout. For example: Basic Steps: 1. Step 1 (linked) 2. Step 2 (current topic -- title ...

Just out of curiosity, does anybody use a reset stylesheet or add resets to their stylesheet to override browser defaults?

If so, what has worked best for you?

Hi Nita,
Thank you. That does help immensely; I didn't realize that you could create a custom medium, so this opens a whole new path (can of worms? ) for me.

Thanks!
Kelly

I know I've seen this mentioned somewhere in the forums, but I can't seem to find it. When clicking the print button from an online output, I know that it pulls from the print part of the stylesheet if you have one. We have one, and we have a page-break-before:always set for the h1 tag. This means t...

Thank you for your reply, Nita. I typically don't set a background color for print output either. It originally came up because I changed the background color for the online output and it carried over to the print medium. I understand that the styling that is the closest to the element takes precede...

I'm wondering if anyone else come across this and if there is a logical explanation. Otherwise, is this a bug? I made a change in my stylesheet to give my body element a background color. I built my PDF target, and the background-color that I defined in my css body element overrides the color that I...

Thanks for such a great resource, Dave. I have used your documentation site more than once; it's wonderful. Albert: Out of curiosity, I added a link to the skin stylesheet in the head of one of my topics and checked the "Exclude content not linked ..." option in the target. And as Dave not...

Hi @aneedell, I came across the same issue. It seems like Flare took this option out of the skin (I'm using 2017 r3 -- not sure how 2018 handles this). Through using the inspect tool in Chrome and https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=19584 , I was able to work around this. You ...

Thanks for the info, Steve. Do you use Capture for resizing or another program? I never resize images to be larger, just smaller and haven't had issues with image quality. I typically use Photoshop, mostly because that is what I am used to, but I'm wondering if I'm missing out on the medium features...