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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 ...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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?

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...

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...

Wow, that means you need to condition every single piece of content. I'm fairly certain that would make me insane.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Oh, I had that part right in the original post. Glad you figured it out.

Oh, cool, glad it helped someone besides me!

Just noting that both bugs have been reported to MadCap.

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...

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 ...

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...

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?