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I set up some pre- and post-Build Events for a number of my targets, to trigger associated Powershell scripts. It all worked fine on my side, but for another colleague sharing the project, the events never triggered. Exhaustive research determined that it was because her projects were stored in a fo...

I've got a Word target set up to occasionally convert web output to a static document (yes yes, I know, but the clients need it). It mostly works, with one issue: Any snippet blocks that exist in the source topic get built inside a table in the Word output. This means that any headings contained in ...

I'm trying to exclude the Head of a dropdown from a PDF output using css classes, but nothing seems to work. So far I've applied "display: none;" to pretty much every combination of Head and Hotspot that I can think of, but the text still shows up when I generate a pdf. The only thing that...

Thanks for this - it's given me a new avenue to pursue! I added a new medium and set a few items (h3, p, table) etc as display: none, and that's taken an 80+ page document down to 6, so there's definitely a way forward from here. Applying the same style to the body didn't do anything, but I doubt th...

I've been posed an interesting challenge by our legal team. My Flare project includes a separate topic file for each product, with the name as an <h1> and all the descriptions and details underneath. We generate a large PDF of all the information on a monthly as a PDF. Legal have now asked for a doc...

That's a really interesting approach! My specific use case might end up running out of drive letters in the long run, but it's definitely a practical workaround. How much of that could potentially by set up by a pre-build event? I wonder if you could run the batch to assign the drive at build time r...

We publish lots (I mean hundreds) of PDFs to various Sharepoint repositories, all synced with OneDrive. We haven't worked out to publish directly to Sharepoint, so the Flare user's local OneDrive folder is set as the Destination path, like so: C:\Users\Username\Company\SharePoint repository\sub-fold...

Unfortunately, these tables are already in their own dropdowns, and some of the rows are visible with toggles: popups are the only option for these particular cells.

I'm just confused as to why the popup behaviour works in the Preview but not in a real browser.

I'm documenting some databases, which requires extensive cross-referencing of various values and parameters. To get around this, I've got some topics with tables, and a table cell can contain both a popup and a link. I thought I was being clever by applying the anchor to the text in the popuphead, l...

One of my topics holds a large table, where every row matches one of six togglers to hide/show relevant content. I've also got other topics that link to this topic as reference material. I've got MadCap:targetName attributes set for every row in the table, but to make any crossreference or hyperlink...

Just jumping in in 2020 to say the problem still exists when publishing a PDF to Sharepoint Online. Any tips?

The token for my GitHub repositories recently changed. Now every time I open a Flare project, I get a 403 error that Password authentification is not available. The problem isn't Git, because in GitHub Desktop I just signed out and back in, and everything works. The problem isn't the Flare registry ...

For anyone else searching for this and finding tumbleweeds... Assuming you're in a Windows environment, you can: Download and install Git Bash. Navigate to your Flare project's root folder. Right-click, and select Git Bash here In the new window, type git fetch --all Open (or switch to) your Flare p...

My company successfully moved from TFS to Git six months ago, which we use to maintain six different Flare projects. Now we're looking into using more Git features, so that multiple writers can maintain their own branches, and then merge these to the master branch at specific times. The Branch and M...

I've got an odd problem with some of my topics. They all include a link in the head to an internal stylesheet in the /Resources/ folder, and a matching link in the table style class to the mc-table-style. However, if I edit anything in the table via the XML Editor, I immediately lose all table forma...

Hi all, A few of my HTML5 pages have hyperlinks to files (plain text, but with a custom file type). If the user clicks these links in their browser, I need to force these links to download rather than opening directly in the browser. HTML5 supports the "download" attribute, as in the follo...

*crickets chirping*

No-one?

I've got a fairly large table in one of my HTML5 docs, which I need sorting. I've used the Advanced Sorting Options to sort based on two columns (one a name, one a number), and I'm getting a curious result: ColSorting.png As you can see, Flare is sorting all rows by Col 2 (as it should), but it's pu...

There aren't any pictures in those decoration frames. The only image is a background applied to the entire layout, so it's completely independent of the frames. Still, I added a Header frame with the same extreme left edge. On build Flare adds the same margin width to the Header as it does to the de...

I'm building a Back page for all of our PDF output. The Page layout has a background image and two decoration frames with a snippet each, while the body frame is completely empty. Likewise, the back page topic is completely blank, and simply has the Page Layout applied to it via the TOC properties. ...

Cheers Choccie. Separate <hx> tags with conditions was the workaround I already implemented to bypass this. It's ugly but it works. For those struggling to get the CRLF working in Find or Find and replace, search by Regular Expressions and include the text ([\s]*) , so <body>([\s]*)<h3>. That will f...

@ChoccieMuffin, can you confirm that? I haven't been able to modify any of the text shown in a PDF TOC except by changing in-topic headings.

Aha! Found something: Flare_mergeTOC.png If you link one TOC inside another, you can exclude the lower TOC node and just display the contents instead. If you then have a mini-TOC on the parent page with this TOC file nested underneath, you can create skip the intermediary TOC chapter. To do this, yo...

Most of my docs are served as HTML5, but occasionally I need to publish a handful of pages in PDF as release notes. The PDF TOC just contains a list of software configurations that have changes, and each topic has a seemingly cryptic heading (h3) related to the software. Each topic page also has a <...

Once you set an Exclude rule in the Target then anything under that is excluded too. So setting the Archive ToC entry as Print Only means that the MiniTOC displays blank - it can't see the children two levels below it. I'd already played with that, but it's good to know others are thinking along the...