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- Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:45 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Moving tabs always undocks them
- Replies: 1
- Views: 466
Moving tabs always undocks them
Am I just shaky, or does anyone else have a terrible time moving docked tabs right & left without having them escape and become undocked? Why can I move tabs around on my browsers with ease, but not move a tab in Flare? When it falls out of the tab, why can't I just put it back in so long as I d...
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 12:37 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Table rows disappear when making edits
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10551
- Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:40 pm
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Cells filled with P tags in imported Word table
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11854
Re: Cells filled with P tags in imported Word table
In the years since I last visited this thread, I've learned to be OK with the <p> tags by embracing @doc_guy 's solution. It never hurts to have a style for <p> tags within tables, since there's always a chance you'll need multiple paragraphs in a table. So I styled it the way I wanted and no more n...
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:22 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Feedback survey link with system variable passthrough
- Replies: 1
- Views: 762
Re: Feedback survey link with system variable passthrough
Apparently, I was using the wrong system variable. It should have been System.SourceFile. As in:
I hope this is useful to someone.
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<a href=https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/mysurvey?[%=System.SourceFile%]>Give Feedback!</a>
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 11:37 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Feedback survey link with system variable passthrough
- Replies: 1
- Views: 762
Feedback survey link with system variable passthrough
I have a user help feedback survey in SurveyMonkey. I'd like to link to the survey from every topic in user help. It would be totally awesome if I could identify the page from which the link was clicked by passing along the topic file name in the survey's URL. SurveyMonkey tells me the basics of how...
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 10:32 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: SOLVED: Flare comments out Google Analytics script
- Replies: 1
- Views: 947
Re: SOLVED: Flare comments out Google Analytics script
In my various experiments, I had placed the GA code in the master page and then commented it out. That seems to have been the source of the trouble. When I removed the commented-out text altogether, the code was rendered in the remaining pages without being commented out. I don't understand it, but ...
- Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:08 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: SOLVED: Flare comments out Google Analytics script
- Replies: 1
- Views: 947
SOLVED: Flare comments out Google Analytics script
Flare is commenting out my Google Analytics code. In the text editor it looks like this (read code replaced w/ ASDF): <!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics --> <script async="async" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=ASDF"></script> <script> window.dataL...
- Tue Jun 28, 2022 1:59 pm
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Best location for Google Analytics tag? Considering GA 4?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 768
Best location for Google Analytics tag? Considering GA 4?
Is it better to have the Google Analytics tag in the <head> or <body>? I'm asking because putting it in the Master Page is so very convenient (and much cleaner), but places the tag into the body. I've seen posts from power users who say using the Master Page is just fine. Will it still be fine with ...
- Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:58 am
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Solved for Now: Unwanted tags in Word imports
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2066
Re: Revised: Unwanted tags in Word imports
I got the answer from Support: The <p> tags in bullets is a bug: #163814. I'm dealing with that as described above: I map the List Bullet style from Word to a unique style made for this purpose. Bedbug is nice and entertaining, or use the curse word of your choice. Fun to eradicate. The image styles...
- Wed Apr 13, 2022 6:05 am
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Solved for Now: Unwanted tags in Word imports
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2066
Solved for Now: Unwanted tags in Word imports
This post started with unwanted <p> tags in lists, but there's more. I'm using Flare 2021 r3 and attempting a Word import. In past versions, we could modify the import file using a text editor and map styles to our hearts' content. Now that ability is gone, gone, gone. Why? How do we get around it? ...
- Mon Apr 11, 2022 8:48 am
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Strategy for organizing large project, successive imports
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3650
Re: Strategy for organizing large project, successive import
Glad you found it helpful! I'm not seeing this until after the weekend so it's probably too late - but there's no need at all to make the filenames unique! It's just like regular files on your computer: if the files are in different folders, then they are considered separate entities and can't over...
- Fri Apr 08, 2022 6:54 am
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Strategy for organizing large project, successive imports
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3650
Re: Strategy for organizing large project, successive import
@doloremipsum, that is brilliant advice! Let me add the following: First, I have to distinguish what comes to me separately (groups of chapters) from what I want to keep separate (main manual vs. appendices). So in addition to following doloremipsum's excellent advice (A separate project for each i...
- Wed Apr 06, 2022 1:06 pm
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Strategy for organizing large project, successive imports
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3650
Strategy for organizing large project, successive imports
I imported a large Word document, then learned that there was maybe three times as much material in "appendices," which actually all traveled together as one giant PDF. So I need to import the new material and decide how to keep it. Here are my questions: If some new section titles are ide...
- Thu Feb 03, 2022 7:46 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: MadCap:autnum attribute selector
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2033
Re: MadCap:autnum attribute selector
So did you try it? Inquiring minds want to know!
- Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:07 pm
- Forum: Single-Sourcing
- Topic: Empty (H1-only) topic in left nav: Web vs. PDF
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11531
Re: Empty (H1-only) topic in left nav: Web vs. PDF
Yes, thank you! I mis-processed your advice the first time and thought it would suck in files that weren't in the TOC at all.
This worked!
This worked!
- Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:06 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Image size changes when using backspace...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7881
Re: Image size changes when using backspace...
Just in case...did you render the output to make sure it's not an artifact of the preview editor?
- Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:01 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Flare makes awkward changes in styles.css
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3128
Re: Flare makes awkward changes in styles.css
Awesome insight, thank you!!
- Wed Dec 22, 2021 8:39 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Flare makes awkward changes in styles.css
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3128
Re: Flare makes awkward changes in styles.css
Thank you both. Unfortunately, I do keep track of which medium I'm altering. In fact, the bloat in my stylesheet includes (brace yourself) an ENTIRE duplicate @media print! If there are contradictory definitions, Flare takes the last of them. But some of the elements are split. For example if I adde...
- Tue Dec 21, 2021 1:52 pm
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: "Ghost" TOC Topics
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3957
Re: "Ghost" TOC Topics
Great job!! One of the necessary steps before importing is to find random text stylized as headers. Next time...in Word, you can ctrl-F to open the sidebar and choose "Headers," then eyeball the entire hierarchy for headers that are blank or look like part of the text. Things that are beni...
- Tue Dec 21, 2021 11:31 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: "Ghost" TOC Topics
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3957
Re: "Ghost" TOC Topics
Have you examined the actual TOC in Project Organizer?
- Tue Dec 21, 2021 10:33 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: "Ghost" TOC Topics
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3957
Re: "Ghost" TOC Topics
I'm not sure which are the "ghost" entries, or whether those entries are actual topics in your project, or if perhaps they are headings within a topic. If they are actual topics, is it possible you're being affected by the setting in your PDF target > Advanced tab > "Inject headings f...
- Tue Dec 21, 2021 9:18 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Flare makes awkward changes in styles.css
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3128
Flare makes awkward changes in styles.css
When I make a change to the stylesheet in Flare, it doesn't "change" the attribute in styles.css. Instead, it "appends" the stylesheet with a new entry. I just realized this, but it explains a lot! For example, I started out with this style: p.DefList { font-weight: 700; margin-b...
- Tue Dec 21, 2021 8:43 am
- Forum: Single-Sourcing
- Topic: Empty (H1-only) topic in left nav: Web vs. PDF
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11531
Re: Empty (H1-only) topic in left nav: Web vs. PDF
Thanks! I have some files that I don't want in the TOC, so I can't use that.
- Wed Dec 15, 2021 4:20 pm
- Forum: Single-Sourcing
- Topic: Empty (H1-only) topic in left nav: Web vs. PDF
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11531
Empty (H1-only) topic in left nav: Web vs. PDF
I imported a Word doc into a project with a Side Navigation skin, creating new topics for every H1, H2, and H3. Sometimes an H1 is immediately followed by an H2 (I'm OK with that). But importing into the Side Nav skin it's not ok: you either get an empty page containing just the header, or you get H...
- Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:32 am
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: fixing list import issues with search and replace
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4017
Re: fixing list import issues with search and replace
My experience is that Flare has trouble with line breaks in Regex. I have to do that work outside of Flare. Notepad++ is extremely helpful with bulk Regex changes!