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Verified with Flare support that no out of box functionality exists for this. So I think my answer has to be javascript. In trying to research existing code I could tweak, I found this partial code from a similar question on Stack Overflow that creates an array of all the urls in the page (in my cas...

I think for my use case what I actually need is the eLearning Toolbar proxy, but the issue is the same. It's still using the target toc and there doesn't seem to be a way to identify a different toc to use.

Hi all. I'm trying to set up a master page that includes both a toolbar with prevtopic/nexttopic buttons (or back/forward, I've tried both) and a menu proxy that uses a separate TOC from the main target toc (I'm using sidenav html skin). The issue is that the toolbar buttons keep defaulting to the m...

I'm on the latest 2022 r2 version of Flare and still seeing this issue in our HTML5 output

Just in case anyone else stumbles on this topic, what eventually worked for me after a LOT of trial and error was to replace Flare's responsive layout with a flexbox instead - that at least kept the two divs the same height (the height of the taller div). Then I added a calculated min-height to my r...

Is there anyway to have madcap generate a dynamic link list like it does in the mini-toc but only for a specific sub-section of page children? Example TOC: Book 1: Landing Page - Book 1A: Sub-section A -- Topic 1 -- Topic 2 -- Topic 3 - Book 1B: Sub-section B -- Topic X -- Topic Y -- Topic Z If I pu...

Hi all. We have a responsive layout master page that puts the body proxy at roughly 75% and a relationship proxy at 25% so that the relationship proxy becomes a panel on the right (or the bottom on mobile). However, if I give a background color to the relationship proxy, I can see that the box heigh...

EDIT: This slightly updated script is what ended up working for me:

I got this to work on my project by searching dev boards and finding out about an .htaccess file. So I created one in my published repository that just contains: AddType application/octet-stream .txt AddType application/octet-stream .pdf You should be able to add additional lines for any kind of fil...

Hi all! I'm trying to use the following jquery script to create expanding tables in my html5 output: http://jsfiddle.net/w6tL8abc/ This is the first time I'm trying to use scripting in Flare - the html/script shown in the fiddle is exactly what I have in my project for testing purposes (minus the br...

Yes - as far as I can tell they are linked in such a way that right in Web is always bottom in Mobile, left in Web is always top in Mobile. Changing the order in one view changes the order in the other as well.

Hey Jeff. I would love to do this through the responsive layouts directly but I think I must be missing something in your explanation. If I use the Responsive Layout controls to switch to the Mobile view and reposition the cell in question to be on the top instead of the bottom, switching back to We...

Just a heads up in case anyone else has run into this - this has been logged as a bug by MadCap.

Hey! Is there a way to use CSS to reorder the columns in a responsive layout for mobile? I have a layout that's two column (9-col, 3-col) and when resized the 3-col right menu automatically shifts to the bottom. Ideally I'd like it to be on top in mobile but still on the right in larger formats. Any...

I do this by building the xml files in flare and pulling in the content via snippets, ex: <ContentKey1> <help> <MadCap:snippetBlock src="..[url]" /> </help> </ContentKey1> Then I publish out with the Clean XHTML target. In my case, the developers still have to use a script to translate to ...

Hi all. We have some custom xml tags we use for embedded text within our application which I publish from madcap using the Clean XHTML target. However, I'm also working on a way to make this content easier to review, so I'm looking at creating a print CSS format that would convert our custom tags in...

My best workaround so far has been to put the header text inside a div and give it a 98% width. It's not my favorite solution but it does seem fix the issue, so just in case anyone else is struggling with the same!

That doesn't seem to affect it either unfortunately. I think the issue truly is the conversion to a background image because by definition backgrounds don't have margins against other objects. In the Topics.css file, it's converting the images to this: .MCDropDown_Open .MCDropDownHotSpot_.MCHotSpotI...

Okay guys, I've got another one for you that I can't figure out. I have my dropdown icons swapped out and set to the right and it mostly works great, but if the text of the header is too long or becomes too long in a mobile view, it sometimes comes up against the icon or even overlaps it. It looks l...

That worked like a dream, thank you so much! It's such a small thing but it's been driving my web designer crazy to not be able to change, ha. Thanks again! ETA: Ah, minor hiccup. In mobile, the icon is positioned correctly when closed but jumps to the top of the line when expanded. Not sure what's ...

Well, assuming that's what you want to change, I think I managed to do that - kind of a fun challenge anyway :). Flare creates that "icon" in an interesting way, with a border that it hides a part of to make a triangle, which it then flips upside down when you expand the menu. My method w...

Hi all, We are finally publishing out our new help site, and I've run into an issue with caching. Initially I had the developers cache the static files (js and css mostly) for better load times, but then if updates are made to the css - or more concerningly, the toc - they're not reflected in the si...

Hi all, Does anyone have any tips for how to capture the 'effective' date of particular topics? My use case is that ideally I'd like to be able to run a report on say all topics where the effective date is over a year old in order to initiate a new review cycle. Does anyone have similar processes? W...

I'm looking to create a custom button in our topic toolbar that opens(/duplicates) the currently viewed topic in a new tab. I'm using an HTML5 Side Nav skin, so I've got a separate topic toolbar skin created as well. I added the custom button under Setup, and it shows up in the list under Styles, bu...

Is there any way to generate a plain xml output from Flare? The closest I've gotten so far is the clean xhtml format, but it's still appending head and meta tags into the content even when I remove them in the page level text editor. Is there a target-level setting I'm missing maybe? I deselected th...