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Thanks for the confirmation!

The key is that it uses a forward slash, not a back slash:

[code]madbuild -project "c:\MyProject\Project.flprj" -target "ExampleA/TextTarget"[/code]

at least from the Windows command line interpreter.

How do specify a target file in a path other than the default? For instance, if the path were (from the project folder) as "Project\Targets\ExampleA\TextTarget.fltar", I'd think it'd be: madbuild -project "c:\MyProject\Project.flprj" -target "ExampleA\TextTarget.fltar" ...

The Unformat (Remove Inline formatting) button works well with one or two instances, but importing Word you may get literally hundreds of these pairs. Consider using regex. In a tool like NotePad++, you can : Find what: <span class="span_[0-9]">(.*?)</span> Replace with: \1 or variations. ...

As far as I tell, there is no way of overriding that mc style code. I removed it and modified the table styles, and while that worked, it circumvents a Flare feature.

Thanks.

Interesting. The breaks appear in a snippet as part of a list, but the list is preceded and followed by another paragraph each.

If I understand you correctly, in this case I won't be able to get the breaks to work properly?

Is it possible to put an HTML line break (<br />) in a snippet? It currently ignores it and so all the lines are put together. It also ignores forced line breaks (shift-Enter). Hard returns are too widely spaced and I don't want to have a special style just to get it to work right.

I am trying to use a custom tool to create a batch file to build specific files. However, whenever I open that file, Flare overwrites my contents with its own, and includes all the files. To be clear, on opening the file through the Flare UI, the file's content is clearly ignored and the UI displays...

Excellent! Thanks.

DOS programming has returned.

How can I get the file name of the just-build file? I want to pass that to the .bat file.

We have tables in some topics with table stylesheets applied: <table class="MyTableStyle" style="mc-table-style: url('../../../Resources/TableStyles/MyTableStyle.css');" cellspacing="1"> However, for some selected TD items, I want to override the style with custom styli...

Thanks for the insight. That connection wasn't obvious.

When importing Word documents, I get new styles, similar to existing names but with underscores, such as BodyText_1, BodyText_2, BodyText_3 for BodyText.

What causes Flare to create these?

It's not always obvious but using a Windows directory tracking tool, I found instances like this: C:\Users\UsrName\Documents\County Projects\AustinHydroProject\Output\UsrName\Temporary\Westside Documents\Topic1\Flare Target Name\Flare Target Name_2EEEC342\Resources\Images\Westside Documents\Project ...

That's a good observation.I got their tech support to confirm that. In my case, I was using a Section Break (New Page) and a manual page break combination, intentionally, for formatting reasons. If the first Section break was styled as Heading 1, the document was named as expected, that is, the text...

Good to know. Thanks for the confirmations.

I'm planning on generating topic files from an application. It will place the generated files directly into the Windows structure inside the Flare project. It also generates the fltoc and fltar files. The XML seems to be Flare compliant and builds successfully, Does anyone know if this could cause p...

Interesting. How does the command figure in? Do you have an example of that?

I understand how to fix the immediate problem. However, I'd like to know ahead of time what to expect.

1) I don't know, nor was I anticipating the path name that errored. I base file names on the expected path.

2) Windows 10 doesn't fix this.

I did check the log. The file and path doesn't exist. C:\XLData\CapturingCenter Sandbox\CapturingCenter\Output\I859244\SchemasXL Documents\Network Structure\InSource Manufact Quality Instrm Date Verifier Upload\[b]Project\Target\SchemasXL Documents\Network Structure\InSource Manufact Quality Instrm ...

In some cases after moving files and folders to a new location, the TOC does not properly update the paths/links to the new location, even though I clicked Update Links. I've tried moving the file back to the original location and try it again, but it never does update. I end up just manually updati...

I'm getting these issues, too. If you're using Git, you have to Commit the new files first, then move them. After doing that, I've never got that problem.

However, not Commit-ing the files first isn't always consistent, and that was confusing at first. It sometimes moved them and sometimes didn't.

I'm on Windows 10 and still get this problem.

Which files exactly does this affect? The longest file path/file name I can find is a combined 220 characters, below the 260-ish limit.

Thanks for the quick reply! However, it's not sticking. I did change it in Projects->Project Properties->Defaults, even guessing that I had to relaunch Flare. But everything still opens in the previous page layout. And that default layout isn't even the first one alphabetically. Anything else I can ...

I have two seemingly identical files. Following the same procedures for importing Word files, the first one correctly shows page numbers, as defined by the page layout template, the other one does not have page numbers. The second one also doesn't start renumbering page numbers in one of the section...

In topic XML editor, I change the Page Layout to the correct .flpgl file through the hierarchical menu, and also through the TOC page. It changes on screen and I save the file but when I open the topic again, it's reset to the previous .flpgl.

How can I make the change stick?