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The Technical Writer will work with QA analysts, software developers and project managers to create and maintain online documentation for ...

Thank you very much. I took your advice. It turned out that I had duplicates of many images without realizing it. I don't even know how this happened. So the 'unused' images were the images that were not being called from the topics, but they had duplicates elsewhere that were being called. I'm not ...

Thank you for your suggestion. I did take a look at the links and did not see anything special about them. For example, I tried looking at the dates they were created, as I had moved my project at one point. So far I have not come up with the connecting thread that ties these images together, but I ...

I found this post while searching the forums. I'm having the exact same problem. About 200 images that are being reported as unused are actually used. I would like to move some of these images into a different folder. They show up fine in the Flare UI and compiles, but because Flare is not ...

Good morning,

I have a related question for hoss. I'm also trying (for the first time) to publish WebHelp html5 to a SharePoint (2007) destination and am noticing the slowness. Can you please tell me what is meant by "the new options unchecked"? I'm not sure what you mean. BTW I'm using SharePoint ...

That's great news! I am using Flare v8. I'll work with the person who set up SharePoint to add the help compile to the SharePoint content sources and go from there. This is an internal-use compile so no one should mind if output switches from WebHelp to HTML5.

Thanks very much!

Good morning,

I found this post while searching the forums. I'm looking to do the same thing using SharePoint 2007. If you came across a good solution would you be willing to please post it so that I can try it out in SharePoint 2007?

Thank you,

S. Dilg

Sorry I accidentally posted the message below to the wrong thread. I apologize. I will now move it where it belongs, under 'Using SharePoint search to crawl WebHelp'.

Good morning,

i found this thread while searching the forums. I'm trying to accomplish the same thing with SharePoint 2007. Can you ...

Wow, thank you very much Dave! I was not aware of the nonscrolling option. I do use the Flare online help, so it should have hit me that I can always see the breadcrumbs in there. Usually I'm so focused on the content (trees) that I don't notice the presentation (forest).

Thanks again!

SDilg

Thank you Dave,

I did not think it was possible but I wanted to make sure I was not missing anything. I just really like the breadcrumbs as a way of letting readers know exactly where they are. So it is a little disappointing that if they use the index, they will not automatically see their ...

Hello,

I had a very similar question and searches returned this topic. I use WebHelp output and have recently implemented Master Pages with breadcrumb proxies.

My question is whether or not you can insert index markers in such a way that clicking an Index entry in the Index frame of the WebHelp ...

Thank you Dave,

I think the Welcome topic is my best bet, for versions. We'll see how that works! I agree with you about keeping Master Page headers and footers small - and have been successful so far on that front!

I like your idea of the hidden file as well. I would not have thought of that ...

Thanks to both of you for your input!
Wclass, I did put in an enhancement request. Your idea of including the Caption in the target makes sense to me so I said the same thing you did.

Dave, I understand where you are coming from. I think each company's situation is unique. Here we have a lot of ...

Hello,

Having searched through the forums I've come across one or two references to sharing skins among projects using external resources.
How would this be done if at least two elements (possibly more) of the skin must change from project to project? Namely:

Caption (on the General tab)
Logo ...

Just wanted to say 'thank you' to Lisa for the detailed instructions in this post. I was having the same problem with Mini-TOC indentation in online output and could not figure out what to do. I folllowed all instructions "to the T" and now it works perfectly. I never would have figured this out on ...

Fantastic, I will go with that! I really appreciate your help!

Thanks,

SDilg

Good afternoon,

I am having the same difficulty described above by livetoski. My variable, which is also a product name, is breaking across lines and being hyphenated. Has anyone discovered a solution for this one?

Thank you,

SDilg

I came across this post in 2009 when I was struggling with the same issues as DocuWil. I had also made a request for the same enhancement. Just wanted to say 'thank you' to MadCap for addressing this with the new target-based topic previews in v.7.0. This is going to be a huge time-saver for a lot ...

CMTucker,

Just wanted to ask whether you received any feedback from MadCap regarding WebHelp Plus on Windows 2008? I had WebHelp Plus working great on a 2003 server, now the server just been updated to 2008 and my Search function is not working.

Thanks,

SDilg

Dear jcoria,

Are you still looking for an answer to this question?

I have just now with the help of our senior IT guy gotten this to work successfully and it is up and running for the first time this morning. As for your question about results, I have found that Excel and PDF show up in the Search ...

Hello all,

I am having a small issue with the mapping results of a numbered procedure I am importing from Word that is originally formatted in an outline numbering style. I am ‘almost there,’ since I have defined two paragraph styles for each of the levels of my outline: one for the first step ...

Good afternoon,

Thanks for your suggestions.

I tried your suggestions several times, both when I first read the post, then again today, which is the first time I've had a chance to return to this issue.

I created the styles you suggested under the Print medium portion of my style sheet, with 0 ...

Good morning,

I apologize for the delay in getting back to this topic; my 'to-do' list at work has been expanding for months.

Although I was pretty sure I had tried all of your suggestions this summer, I went through and systematically tried every one again this morning. I am sad to report that ...

This is just a quick post to say thank you for your help -- I am a bit swamped right now, and although I have tried a couple of your suggestions with no success so far, I haven't exhausted the possibilities.

I will post my exact attempts and results as soon as I reasonably can....

Thanks again ...

Thank you for your reply,


Looking at the html I noticed that the dropDownHotspot style falls closer to the text in the html code. So I tried indenting both styles for the Print medium, still with the same unsuccessful results.

Here are those two styles in the CSS under
@media Print

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