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I see a bug I reported got fixed, but I didn't receive their notification email as promised.

I'm very curious to know what scenarios demand these links being expanded by default. The purpose of these links is to make the topics more compact, and the body of the link content should be optional/obvious to some and only those interested should bother to expand them. Won't expanding them by def...

I don't think you can do this. But maybe first, you should re-think what you really want to achieve. It's not normal to show every internal note in the final output. So maybe what you really want to achieve, is to conditionally show/hide those notes instead of showing them with different styles. For...

Did you fix the problem? I also encountered this problem and is curious whether you found a fix for this.

Hi Elizabeth,

Have you found a workaround for this? I also have this problem.

Awesome. I finally got Prettify working. Funny that I added another variation during my test and moved the second script to the end, but it was after the body tag

I end up using Prism for the same purpose, so ignore my previous post unless you want to provide the answer that you already know. Prism is easier to configure IMO. Now, one more question :P : anybody has implemented a Copy Code/Select All control, so that the user can click to copy the code to the ...

I use prettyprint, but the steps in that blog post don't match the instructions in the prettyprint documentation . Perhaps the blog is out of date - you now use a different js file, and you don't need the transparent image or the link to the CSS file. All you need to do is include the code below in...

Thanks Nita. Since our Flare project is bound to source control (we use TFS), in the same repository as the APP, I think we can have the APP create/maintain the header file in the Advanced folder of the Flare Project folder. The APP has access to all the directories in TFS. This is the automatic sol...

am I adding it to my main stylesheet or the stylesheet in the skin code? Add it in the main stylesheet. There's no separate stylesheet for the skin. The skin code only specifies a selector used to control the styling of the menu item in the side menu, and you should include that selector in your ma...

Hi, If my project contains a glossary file, the glossary will be available on every new (HTML5?) target (Glossary tab) that I create. This is extremely annoying as this adds unnecessary burdens to several areas: now it's longer to build a very simple target because the build process always parses th...

So when the app makes a CSH call, it generates the identifier from the form's unique name/path; e.g. MyApp_FeatureArea_FormName It's then my job to add all those identifiers to my Flare alias file, and map them to appropriate topics. ... the developer could make this job easier by writing an app th...

@jjw, what is your added .pdf style a subclass of? Can you supply more detail about that? I get the principle behind this, just not sure where to do each of these things. @arkana, what version of Flare are you using? And what target type and skin type? I'm using the latest (Flare 2019) and there is...

@Matt F, I'm using side-nav and it's working. Maybe you can post the relevant skin XML code here..

Thanks Joe (and brigitte) for the great tip. I used your technique to achieve what I need and it's working perfectly. Two minor things: 1) in your code, the opening and ending tag doesn't match (styles vs. style). 2) I think you can just add one selector instead of three and you can apply the same s...

For me, I changed the Startup topic to another one and problem solved. Very scary indeed, and very difficult to troubleshoot!

Hi,

Did you find answers to these questions? I have very similar questions and would like to know what you have found later or what approach you used in the end. Thanks!

Correct about copying a template HTML file (which I provide and keep up-to-date in terms of format) to a specified folder. Not about the alias. I've done that ahead, setting aside 100 ID values. Those match a set of designated file names in the target folder. You'll have to have those files when yo...

What I do is pretty basic. Won't get me invited to speak at MadWorld anytime soon. :roll: My solution allows a user to create topics that they can open with an F1 press from within our program. That works because our program is used for application development and it's easy to add a line of code to...

Ellis Pratt (frequent MadWorld speaker) mused on that topic in his blog, a while back: https://www.cherryleaf.com/blog/2016/01/how-to-create-online-help-topics-that-are-editable-by-clients/ I've recently started to use a variation on option #3, empty placeholders. It's been used in one project so f...

We are in the doc site planning stage and would like to know how to layout different content in the top menu (we are using HTML5 top nav template) and the home page, and how to set up the TOCs accordingly. We want to cover all content types (online help, user guide, release notes, etc.) on the home ...

If anyone has a solution for the problem, could you share how you did it because we have the same requirement.