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A file called stemmer-english.amd.min.js recently started appearing in my Resources/Scripts folder for my Flare project output. This file has never been here before. I have no idea where it came from or what it does, the Flare user guide doesn't turn up anything. Is this a legitimate Flare file or d...

We currently have a trial license of MadCap Central that we're using mostly for analytics. Does MadCap document the API for Central anywhere? I searched but was unable to find any API documentation. I can easily use Postman Interceptor to capture the requests the user interface is making, and then s...

Is there any way within Flare that I can reference the filename? For example, if I have a file called Introduction.htm, I'm hoping there's a system Flare variable that I can use to grab and insert "Introduction.htm" in different places.

Is there any easy way to do this within Flare?

Also, looking into the analytics that Central provides, it's even less than Google Analytics, and he's already not satisfied with Google Analytics.

The target doc site doesn't have to be hosted in Central, but the content must be authored in a Flare project within Central unfortunately. All of our writers use the standalone MadCap Flare application, and we don't want to switch to Central (changing our entire infrastructure) just to get the Anal...

Hey guys, My boss recently asked me to start researching analytics tools for technical documentation because he doesn't think Google Analytics provides enough value. Do any of you use any third-party analytics tools? Which ones are the current best in class? Something that focuses specifically on te...

When users use the copy button to copy a code snippet, and then paste it into their editor, the code contains hidden <0xa0> characters which is the hex code for NBSP; HTML codes. If a user simply highlights the code and pastes into their editor there are no hidden characters. The Flare copy button i...

When I build PDF output, the pages are labeled using the H1 from the page. However, I would like the pages in the PDFs to be labeled the same as the label in the TOC instead of the H1. How do I change this behavior? I've looked at every setting on my PDF target and can't figure it out.

That's very helpful, we can definitely query the registry to perform this check. Thanks for the response!

We had a Flare user publish to our website using an unlicensed version of Flare and thus the text was scrambled. We now want to create an automated check to prevent this in the future. Is there a way to verify if Flare is licensed via the command line? I know you can do it by going to Help -> About ...

We have several users that use Flare in our organization. Some of the users are experiencing an issue with the pre and post-build event commands. The issue only occurs when targets are built from the command line with madbuild.exe, not from the GUI. We have a post-build event command that echoes som...

Does anyone have any ideas? We're still experiencing the issue.

We have a post-build event command set up for a target that just echos variables to a file. This is the command: echo "$(TargetName)|$(ProjectDirectory)|$(OutputDirectory)" > %appdata%\mcoutput.fldat On my machine, I can build targets via the GUI in Flare and also via the command line, and...

For anyone reading this, it's a bug in Flare 2021. Support sent me a replacement .dll file and now the issue is resolved.

I have broken links in my PDF output, but the issue for me is with hyperlinks, the cross-references work fine. It seems that Flare is hard-coding the hyperlinks in the build process instead of using relative links. For example: https://i.imgur.com/tncEdI4.png This seems to be an issue with Flare 202...

Most of the links within my generated PDFs are broken. I narrowed down the issue to links that were inserted as hyperlinks and that link to another file in the project. Cross-reference links work fine in the PDF output, it's only the hyperlinks that are broken. It seems that Flare is generating the ...

I have a child project imports snippets from a global project. Normally, the snippets that are imported have a link icon next to the name indicating that the snippets aren't local. Additionally, when you attempt to edit one of these files you will get a dialog explaining that the document is a linke...

When you build content that contains variables, the output has the variable wrapped in a span tag. <span class="ProductName">Widget</span> Is there any way to prevent Flare from wrapping variables in span tags? I just want Flare to insert my variable without wrapping it in span tags since ...