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Like wclass, I find Word's Compare tool handy or essential on occasion.

In practice for tracking revision of all our Help projects we use a method that has not been mentioned here. It may not be elegant but it enables us to track changes through all previous versions, whether last changed months or ...

(cf. merrill77's post on 100% CPU every time I type : http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=9958)

I'm getting almost 100% CPU usage for about 35 seconds whenever I Save a topic after editing.
Has anyone else come across this delay? (As if some other process is triggered by doing so ...

Thanks, Andrew
As Rick's question implied, perhaps Flare's version has something to do with this.
I've submitted a query to MadCap Tech Support - we'll see what happens...

an "IntelliSense" pop-up ... so I turned it off

Thanks for sharing the solution, merrill77! :D
Disabling IntelliSense fixed the same problem at once for me:


Around 97% to 98% CPU usage for about 35 seconds from start of typing.
Windows XP Home with SP3, Celeron 2.3GHz, 1GB RAM.
Now, since ...

We've written the instructions and gained confidence in the method. Next, our publishing colleagues will review that, perhaps try it out for the French Help set and decide whether to adopt it as our standard procedure for enabling 3-level Help across all language variants.

We've noted these ...

Pete,

Thanks for that note of caution. Fortunately we're not using either of those irreversible features at the moment.
However , that might well affect anyone who reads this and thinks they can achieve 3-level Search safely.

Also as you advise we will apply a once-off fix to each Help-version ...

Pete Lees,

It worked! :D
The problem was just info. overload - I had too much info about nesting (not a problem) and recursion was in there somewhere.
Anyway I started afresh and applied the relevant instructions.

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In a nutshell:
(for the simplest case, starting from the Master CHM ...

Thanks, Pete Lees. [I have stripped down this post, to focus on the solution]

I confess that when I evaluated Flare in May 2006 I did not spot that FTS was missing for recursively nested CHMs. :oops:
. . .
We are issuing the nested set of CHM files to publishing teams in English, to be translated ...

Thank you for all contributions so far! I should have been referring to the Project (HHP) file. Now I am trying to understand exactly how to apply that advice.

This is not just about nesting CHMs - that works fine - but about nesting again to a 3rd level with Full Search at all levels:
Master-CHM ...

Thank you each for your replies. May we start again, please? :?
AFAICT:
a. Flare (whether v2.5 or v4) does not support Search on CHM Help files nested to more than 2 levels.
b. The solution lies in adding those files manually to a [MERGED FILES] section of a CHM.
c. That is possible by use of ...

Context: Flare versions 2.5 & 4
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We are finding that CHM files nested at the 3rd level are not returning results from a local Search.

I've not investigated this in detail yet, but is there a known problem?

The nearest situation I could find was a query in the Webhelp ...

Thank you, Laura, also for your web site link.

This should clinch our bid for an upgrade to Flare V4

Seer

Quote from the Flare online manual:
http://www.madcapsoftware.com/support/webhelp/flare/Default.htm
in the topic About Analyzer :

"About Analyzer

Analyzer is a tool that lets you analyze your project to find and fix issues, as well as create reports that display the information captured. There are ...

Thanks, KevinDAmery & Dave Lee. I'll bear in mind the use of a proxy when I next need to include a dynamic Glossary.

Back on the Indexing topic :)

My basic point was just that I found the Index creation unsuited to my way of working. We apply rules for index entries to keep the indexes sparse ...

Thanks for your comments, Richard & all.

I only produce HTML Help (CHM format) so I missed the Browse Sequence and Glossary features of RoboHelp.
In practice the 'client' (our parent company) never commented on them and seems not to have noticed their absence.
Where a Glossary is needed for Getting ...

Perhaps a 'top-down' designer supposed that the Index comes into being fully-formed before the mere topics, so its entries can easily be dragged into the topics in due course! :roll:

Anyway, Flare's rag-bag of Index-related features, plus lack of Browse Sequences & Glossary worthy of the name ...

Thanks KevinDAmery,

That will make Index maintenance a lot easier.

Richard,

Thanks for your prompt reply. I wrongly regarded the Index Explorer as a passive viewer.
That will be a useful feature for re-using entries in an index is in progress or well populated.

What I was mainly looking for was a way of indicating to Flare that it should put a selected piece of ...

(Flare 2.5; projects converted from RoboHelp 2002r2)

Yesterday I created an Index for the first time as follows:

\"To create index entries for a topic, using the the Index Entry window:
place the cursor at the relevant place in the topic (or copy the required text), then type or paste the text of ...