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- Mon May 20, 2024 5:58 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Blog on Streamlining Search in MadCap Flare with a Dynamic Dropdown
- Replies: 7
- Views: 495
Re: Blog on Streamlining Search in MadCap Flare with a Dynamic Dropdown
Please share the fix here if possible, just in case others stumble across this thread with the same problem
- Mon May 20, 2024 3:08 am
- Forum: Single-Sourcing
- Topic: Topic Within a Topic
- Replies: 1
- Views: 216
Re: Topic Within a Topic
Have you considered trying to use an <iframe> or something more modern like <object>?
- Fri May 17, 2024 2:53 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: PNG Images blurry in Flare HTML Output
- Replies: 2
- Views: 305
Re: PNG Images blurry in Flare HTML Output
Have you tried checking this in the Advanced tab of the Target?
- Fri May 17, 2024 2:31 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Blog on Streamlining Search in MadCap Flare with a Dynamic Dropdown
- Replies: 7
- Views: 495
Re: Blog on Streamlining Search in MadCap Flare with a Dynamic Dropdown
Hi,
Mattias is the owner of ImprovementSoft and makes several MadCap plugins, you should be able to contact him at mattias@improvementsoft.com
Mattias is the owner of ImprovementSoft and makes several MadCap plugins, you should be able to contact him at mattias@improvementsoft.com
- Fri May 17, 2024 2:28 am
- Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
- Topic: Images as variable in page layout?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 463
Re: Images as variable in page layout?
Ah apologies, I thought perhaps that you were a bit further ahead in editing PageLayouts. Add a Decoration Frame to your PageLayout, and click it, press F2 and click No. You'll then see a window open up to edit the Frame contents with a paragraph block in by default. Type something unique in this pa...
- Thu May 16, 2024 3:26 am
- Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
- Topic: Images as variable in page layout?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 463
Re: Images as variable in page layout?
You can do this with variables, just note that you won't see any images rendered at all in the PageLayout until you build the output. Just use something like this: <img src="../path/to/barcodes/[%=Barcodes.BarcodeType%]"> Then create a VariableSet called Barcodes with a variable BarcodeTyp...
- Thu May 16, 2024 2:04 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Future Flare features
- Replies: 2
- Views: 385
Re: Future Flare features
Oh boy, I could talk about this for a while, but here's a few ideas off the top of my head.... XML editor needs to have better support for more modern web standards such as flex and grid, so you can more accurately see how your content will look in the final output. I'd like a native option to mimic...
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:03 am
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Import Word Document Property?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3184
Re: Import Word Document Property?
I can only comment to say the lack of comments probably gives you your answer :( I've had to recently use the Word importer many times for existing help files I need to convert into Flare and it's disappointing how limited it is - particularly around the fact that I'm restricted to hardcoded styles ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 2:56 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: How to view my TOC in a standard tab
- Replies: 2
- Views: 324
Re: How to view my TOC in a standard tab
If you drag the TOC over your "main" Flare window, you should see some layout buttons appear.
Drag the TOC onto the folder icon and it'll dock as a tab in that window.
Drag the TOC onto the folder icon and it'll dock as a tab in that window.
- Tue May 07, 2024 7:07 am
- Forum: Tips and Tricks
- Topic: User Name as a Variable
- Replies: 2
- Views: 397
Re: User Name as a Variable
Do you use source control? If so you could create a User condition tag set and add it to your .gitignore so each author can maintain their own version of the set, which could then be used in meta tags.
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:51 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: "The negotiation of key exchange method has failed"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6920
Re: "The negotiation of key exchange method has failed"
Crikey. Add this to the list of incredibly frustrating areas where Flare is several years behind the industry standards. I really do worry that the SaSS offerings are getting so much better and Flare seems to be frozen in time...
- Wed May 01, 2024 4:14 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Variable not showing in segment
- Replies: 2
- Views: 284
Re: Variable not showing in segment
I always understood the [%=%] format variables to be an alternative way of using variables as properties inside existing XML tags i.e.
It would make sense that Lingo would ignore if if this is the case.
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<p style="color: [%=Formatting.Color%]">Paragraph</p>
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:49 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Use Different Page Layout for Different conditions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 462
Re: Use Different Page Layout for Different conditions
Hi
Yes this is entirely possible. You can apply conditions to images in page layouts and they will be hidden or displayed depending on the target conditions. Have you encountered an issue trying to do this?
Yes this is entirely possible. You can apply conditions to images in page layouts and they will be hidden or displayed depending on the target conditions. Have you encountered an issue trying to do this?
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:47 am
- Forum: Tips and Tricks
- Topic: HTML popover
- Replies: 1
- Views: 384
HTML popover
popover is a new Global Attribute in the HTML spec and it's AWESOME . You can show/hide practically any element or group of elements with a native button and setting popover=auto will exactly emulate a Flare image popup that can be dismissed by selecting the bounds outside the element. This has a m...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:08 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: error when resolving links in output files for Clean XHTML
- Replies: 1
- Views: 509
Re: error when resolving links in output files for Clean XHTML
Is the "Open Build Log" button in the Builds window not available?
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:28 am
- Forum: Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Pinned Items - Styles, Variables, Etc.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7851
Re: Pinned Items - Styles, Variables, Etc.
Flare generates a .gitignore for these files when binding to source control such as ADO, and it doesn't show them in the Flare client by design as they are metadata. They simply tell Flare the pinned and recently used content in Variables, Images, Snippets etc. (for the respective Insert... dialogue...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:01 am
- Forum: Single-Sourcing
- Topic: Parameter driven Target-based Conditions - Another Way?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 718
Re: Parameter driven Target-based Conditions - Another Way?
I've never personally used it but I'll probably procure a licence later this year as our various Flare projects are getting bigger and bigger, but there is a paid solution on the market called Target Control - https://www.tbro.dk/ It's linked to officially by Flare from this page , so it's an advoca...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:37 am
- Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
- Topic: Controlling background image size
- Replies: 3
- Views: 395
Re: Controlling background image size
No guarantee but I have noticed that sometimes PDF output prefers CSS shorthand instead of explicit declarations so you could try that:
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p.NotesIcon
{
background: url(C:\(redacted)\Content\Resources\Images\Notes_Icon.png) no-repeat 9px 5px/20px white;
}
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:33 am
- Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
- Topic: Indestructible folder
- Replies: 6
- Views: 917
Re: Indestructible folder
Microsoft PowerToys has a File Locksmith/What's using this file utility that is very useful for seeing why a file is locked.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Setting of Position: Absolute is cutting off text
- Replies: 1
- Views: 368
Re: Setting of Position: Absolute is cutting off text
Yes this is a frustrating issue with Flare and dropdowns. I recommend you use flex for your layouts in a column with the footer being aligned with the flex-end. Flex is amazing and solves all sorts of layout problems such as this. Excellent help for flex is here - https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:56 am
- Forum: Getting Started and Installation Issues
- Topic: Setting up the process: Better to import from or export to other projects?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 563
Re: Setting up the process: Better to import from or export to other projects?
I would personally that you get into some sort of Source Control urgently, as it can save you from a lot of issues. Do you use ADO etc. at your company? How come you'll be able to use GitHub "eventually", why the delay?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:26 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Cursor button shortcut for next or previous button
- Replies: 5
- Views: 436
Re: Cursor button shortcut for next or previous button
I tested putting it in <script> tags in the head of my template page that has the buttons and it works fine for me on every page, perhaps try that?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:15 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Cursor button shortcut for next or previous button
- Replies: 5
- Views: 436
Re: Cursor button shortcut for next or previous button
You can put some jQuery into the skin that should achieve this, I've tested it locally in devtools but not in an actual build however.. $(document).keydown(function(e) { if (e.which == 39) { $(".next-topic-button").click(); } else if (e.which == 37) { $(".previous-topic-button")....
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 3:37 am
- Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
- Topic: Can a page layout call a different variable set depending on the doc using it?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 405
Re: Can a page layout call a different variable set depending on the doc using it?
No problem! Yep Flare can be quite confusing/intimidating when you get started, but keep persevering!
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:12 am
- Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
- Topic: Can a page layout call a different variable set depending on the doc using it?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 405
Re: Can a page layout call a different variable set depending on the doc using it?
It seems you might be doing things a little bit backwards. You don't need to have a variable set for each document type, you just use the target to set what the variables should be for that output. This way you can use one page layout, one variable set but have multiple targets in which you set the ...