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Target Control looks interesting and I'd have probably gone there had I not already come up with my own solution. I programmatically generate targets for individual manuals bespoke to a particular boat model. I have a host of conditions for each potential item on board a vessel. I use a Python scrip...

It's a bit of both. The way the document is displayed is a PDF thing. You're looking for Two Page View and to select the Show Cover Page in Two Page View. The good news is, you can select this initial display option in the PDF Options of your target. In the Initial View section choose Page Layout as...

I'd be using nested lists to represent that structure. They'd handle the indent perfectly without any autonum styles. You can style them with classes later if required but if all you want are bullets, numbers and alpha, why not do this: <ol> <li>Step 1</li> <li>Step 2</li> <li>Step 3</li> <li>Step 4...

Is the style in an appropriate PDF or default medium, and not in an online medium? Can you see the numbering in the XML editor? Even if the numbers themselves aren't correct, are the correct number of levels shown? Are levels 1 and 2 displayed correctly in output? Can you show us the CSS code for yo...

Nothing within Flare. If you've only a small number of targets, or regularly build the same variations, then doing as Choccie says is a great idea. You can go more complicated if you need to by scripting outside of Flare. But this could be a sledgehammer to crack a nut. For example, I create bespoke...

Ah I'm not sure I've understood the issue. If the overall div contents exceed the length of a content frame then all Flare can do is try it's best to fit it, and then break the content despite any avoid-break-inside statements in the CSS. You could force a page break by having page-break-before: alw...

I'd enclose the complete note inside a DIV classed as "note" or something similar. Then in the DIV.note style set "page-break-inside: avoid;" (also column and frame breaks avoid if that is an issue in your docs). That way the entire note will be carried to the next page if there ...

I can't see a way to do this from within Flare without including other things. I thought at first you could use Acrobat's "Create from Web Page" feature. You could point it at a generated List of Figures in your HTML output and ask it to get 2 levels (That is, it would get the List of Figu...

You could have duplicate folder structures under TOC and Target areas in the Project folder though. If you keep the naming the same as your Content folder items will be easier to find.

I don't think this is possible, at least not in an automated way. There isn't a "Last" page type that you can insert into a page layout. The closest is one of the "Empty" or "Empty Left/Right" layouts, but this would be useless to you if you've content on the last page ...

A common thing to do if you have a bit of repeated code in your documents is to create a snippet as a template for it. I use this method for processes and some tables as I want them to always look the same. Create a table with your particular style, columns, headings, rows. Select the table and crea...

I think it's because the toggler definition is an inline element. If I do the above and make my icons 50px square, I see the larger icon, but I only see a slice of it to fit in the line-height of the toggler. If I change it to a block element and specify a height like below, I can see the larger 50p...

So the difference is in the TOC? The PDFs per level use a smaller TOC than the overall HTML output one? My guess is that the smaller TOC has Auto-numbers defined for the topic containing H1.Reference along with Chapter breaks in the Printed Output tab. Compare the properties for reference topics in ...

It would be handy to have some sort of feature to make it easy to group topics, but I suspect it would be almost impossible to implement. Even with some sort of global setting to "group topics at H3 level" or similar, you'd still end up with some topics that are too small (and probably som...

I've been watching this topic hoping someone would pipe up and have an automatic solution for you (and me!). I'm sorry to say I think you are going to be disappointed. I don't know of an automatic or easy way to do what you want. It's certainly a frustration when you go from outputting to PDF to out...

I suspect the silence is because of it's not an easy fix and it depends greatly on your docset and what you hope to achieve, and how far along in your Flare journey you are... Flare does quite a complicated job converting HTML files to PDF and there could be many reasons for additional pages to appe...

This is working as expected. The link is on the text part within the DIV, so only the text will take you to your destination. Your DIV looks rather like a button but can't act like one because the link isn't on the DIV. Quite a lot of websites work the same way, which annoys me until I realise I hav...

Just some thoughts: The frames definitely have the same dimensions? I always like to check external to Flare in a text editor. Definitely no paddings on the body frame in the layout? Are there any paddings defined for the body css style in your master stylesheet? What happens if you explicitly inclu...

I think PSider is right. I'll have to look at Snippet Conditions more myself as I've not used them. https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=10427 Seems you can create an overall table with conditionalised rows as a snippet, then apply snippet conditions on the table snippet when you insert...

Ahh I should have read on further in that link... sorry... In which case, the only thing I can think of is to split the table into complete table sections. So instead of a single table, have several tables. Then the common ones could be snippets and the ones pertaining to particular products can be ...

I've not done it myself but Flare has all sorts of wonderful things you can do if you're prepared to break away from the interface. I think this post: viewtopic.php?t=25936 explains how to do this.

Rob

I'm not sure I'm understanding your goals correctly... If you want to output a manual just for Product A, a manualjust for Product B and a third manual for Product C: Create three conditions, one for each product Create three targets, one for each product Set conditions in each target to include the...

The description "Only 27 of 27 styles shown" is definitely a bug - needs to be reported to Flare (https://www.madcapsoftware.com/feedback/bugs/). I've got 25 styles and it states "Only 25 of 25 shown" even though, like you, it only shows 20 of the styles. So the first number shou...

I'd start by looking at the source for the start of the Outlook topic and the end of the previous iFly topic to see if there are any extra heading tags in there that are getting pulled into the TOC during the build. Or have you any defined named destinations in the documents?

Rob

I'm a PDF kinda guy so not likely to help. My thoughts are that you probably won't be able to browse a network folder on the phone and view the help from there. It would open an individual file and not render it as HTML because it isn't opening the file in a browser. You'd need to push the content o...