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- Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:15 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Adding a Help button that "links" to a doc navigation topic
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4414
Re: Adding a Help button that "links" to a doc navigation topic
Thanks, Jim. I had forgotten about this post. I would imagine there's a clever regex way to yield the correct URL, but while I love the concept and power of regular expressions, I find them maddening to produce or mentally parse, so I'm content with my more step-wise approach of picking off the URL ...
- Wed Feb 08, 2023 12:59 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone using Flare for an open-source docs project?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6135
Re: Anyone using Flare for an open-source docs project?
We never did open-source our code, so for now, we're still just using Flare for our own product documentation, and while no tool is perfect, I do find it the most powerful and flexible tool to use, and well worth the cost.
- Wed Sep 15, 2021 6:30 pm
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Generating a list of headings in a single topic
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9320
Re: Generating a list of headings in a single topic
Thanks, psider. I just tried it, but then you need to set another style to turn off the bolding of the "selected" class assigned to the first entry in the list. h1 { mc-heading-level: 0; } ul.menu._Skins_Menu.mc-component li > a.selected, ul.menu._Skins_Menu.mc-component li > a.selected:ho...
- Wed Sep 15, 2021 2:28 pm
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Generating a list of headings in a single topic
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9320
Re: Generating a list of headings in a single topic
Call me crazy, but when I use the menu proxy with the Headings option, I want the list to start at the h2 level. I certainly don't need a clickable link to the h1 heading that functions as the title of the page. This feature is so easy to use in Confluence and works just as you would expect; why can...
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:57 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Flare 2018, View links error
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2067
Re: Flare 2018, View links error
I just had a similar problem in Flare 2019, where somehow my Analyzer DB got corrupted and was reporting only one link to a particular file when I knew there were many more and a source code search confirmed it. If this happens, you can resolve it by simply deleting the entire Analyzer folder. As so...
- Mon Aug 19, 2019 11:55 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Suggestions for content hosting
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3584
Re: Suggestions for content hosting
Any updated suggestions? Or tools you use to host different versions of the content for different clients (each with their own login/permissions) on your company's own website?
- Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:28 pm
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Non TOC topics appear in Search
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17258
Re: Non TOC topics appear in Search
I guess I see your point, but it still seems like a lot of work. We have multiple targets, each of which include only a subset of the total content we maintain in our single project. In order to not pull in all the topics in any given target, I'd need to set a condition on every topic such that it w...
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:01 pm
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: CSS fails when output type changed from HTML to PDF
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5151
Re: CSS fails when output type changed from HTML to PDF
Just bumped into this PDF CSS limitation. I have the following construct in my CSS to style the first 3 columns of a particular table type as "code": table.config td:nth-child(-n+3) { font-family: monospace; color: #4169e1; mc-disable-glossary-terms: true; } It works like a charm in the HT...
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 6:59 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Non TOC topics appear in Search
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17258
Re: Non TOC topics appear in Search
Wow, that means you need to condition every single piece of content. I'm fairly certain that would make me insane.
- Mon Aug 12, 2019 3:25 pm
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Non TOC topics appear in Search
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17258
Re: Non TOC topics appear in Search
Oh, Lord, I just typed an ENTIRE POST with yet a new finding on this vexing issue, and by the time I hit Preview without remembering to copy my text first, it forced me to login again and WIPED OUT EVERYTHING I TYPED! So now here's the short version. Because maybe this will help someone, and if noth...
- Tue May 21, 2019 7:45 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Non TOC topics appear in Search
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17258
Re: Non TOC topics appear in Search
Just reporting back with thanks to Dave Lee's suggestion. It's a bit of a nuisance, but it does the job, and hopefully won't be too onerous to maintain, since I only need to "turn it on" when I know I need it. For the sake of example, let's say I have a series of topics on fruits that all ...
- Mon May 20, 2019 7:25 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Non TOC topics appear in Search
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17258
Re: Non TOC topics appear in Search
Choccie, I've done the same thing, and it is a pain, but maybe creating a link snippet for that purpose would work well, where it already has the conditions built in, and then you just update the link and the unlinked text after converting the snippet to text. I store those types of snippets in a fo...
- Fri May 17, 2019 11:32 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Non TOC topics appear in Search
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17258
Re: Non TOC topics appear in Search
My suggestion was to put the condition on the topic, not the links to that topic. You don't need to put conditions on any of the links, because if that topic is excluded from the target using a condition, then Flare will automatically convert links to that topic to plain text (i.e. do the same as a...
- Fri May 17, 2019 7:22 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Non TOC topics appear in Search
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17258
Re: Non TOC topics appear in Search
For the current case that raised this issue for me, I ended up pulling in all the related topics in a "Reference" section, but it's not ideal and adds content I didn't need/want in that other target. Regarding your suggestion, I'm not even sure I understand. I have topic A that links to A....
- Thu May 16, 2019 7:33 pm
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Non TOC topics appear in Search
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17258
Re: Non TOC topics appear in Search
Exactly, Paul. And what I'm suggesting is that I'd like a very similar behavior in HTML output. In fact, an alternative to what I proposed earlier is to have a target-level checkbox to exclude any topics not directly linked in the TOC, and to perhaps have a way to add non-TOC topics (such as my link...
- Tue May 14, 2019 6:42 pm
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Non TOC topics appear in Search
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17258
Re: Non TOC topics appear in Search
Interesting, except it's at the topic properties level, not the TOC level, so the setting then applies to all outputs that include that topic, which may not be what you want. In outputs that include that topic explicitly in the TOC, you'd want it to be included in the search. And this doesn't help w...
- Tue May 14, 2019 12:55 pm
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Non TOC topics appear in Search
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17258
Re: Non TOC topics appear in Search
Fair point, Paul, but I think you can manage that with the proper wording. I tend to prefer links on the word(s) in the context of the sentence rather than explicit referrals to some other location, like "See Hyperlinks for more information." So in the former case, the user would not reali...
- Wed May 08, 2019 11:53 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Non TOC topics appear in Search
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17258
Re: Non TOC topics appear in Search
I don't know if anyone else would find this useful, but I just submitted the following related feature request, with the subject "Add a TOC topic property to convert any links to other topics not otherwise included to plain text": The "Exclude content not linked directly or indirectly...
- Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:08 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Adding a Help button that "links" to a doc navigation topic
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4414
Re: Adding a Help button that "links" to a doc navigation to
Oh, I had that part right in the original post. Glad you figured it out.
- Fri Mar 22, 2019 7:49 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Adding a Help button that "links" to a doc navigation topic
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4414
Re: Adding a Help button that "links" to a doc navigation to
Oh, cool, glad it helped someone besides me!
- Thu Jan 10, 2019 8:49 pm
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Reusing Excel content in Flare
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4515
Re: Reusing Excel content in Flare
Just noting that both bugs have been reported to MadCap.
- Thu Jan 10, 2019 8:42 pm
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Reusing Excel content in Flare
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4515
Re: Reusing Excel content in Flare
One other bug I discovered, for which I have no good solution, is that if a worksheet has hidden columns that you tell Flare to ignore upon import, and there are column headers that span several columns among which are some of those hidden columns that will not get imported, Flare does not take into...
- Thu Jan 10, 2019 8:34 pm
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Reusing Excel content in Flare
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4515
Re: Reusing Excel content in Flare
I figured out the problem, and am posting it here in case anyone else runs across it. Somehow, the spreadsheet I was attempting to import had one worksheet in it that had an extremely large number of empty columns (the columns were deep into the triple letters). I'm not sure exactly how it got into ...
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 10:29 am
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Reusing Excel content in Flare
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4515
Re: Reusing Excel content in Flare
Is anyone having issues where attempting to import an Excel spreadsheet of reasonable size/complexity just hangs? I have an Excel file that has 9 worksheets (2 of them hidden), and I tried instructing Flare to just import one of the non-hidden ones as a topic, and even still, it just gets indefinite...
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 4:13 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone using Flare for an open-source docs project?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6135
Re: Anyone using Flare for an open-source docs project?
Interesting perspective, RamonS, but if you use Flare for the doc and none of your user community has access to or is willing to pay for Flare, how do you include them in the workflow of updating the documentation when they make updates to the corresponding OSS?