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jjw wrote:Sigh, that kind of sucks. But thanks.

Yep - agreed. What I'd like to be able to do is map the styles myself - I don't think Flare picks very good defaults when it interacts with Word.

They become pop-ups. Flare puts the text into the topic where the reference was and adds a span of class footnote. When a user clicks the reference, it uses javascript to pop up the footnote text. I don't think you need to do anything special (I admit I don't use footnotes anymore), and I'm sure you...

We have solved this problem with a bit of custom javascript - and we bypass using the Back button. We added the code supplied below to the master page for our Top Nav output, and, for each item in our TOC for the Top Nav, we added a call to the particular slide number we want. So to use it, you don'...

That's URL encoding - URLs can't contain spaces or a range of other special characters, and so are replaced by a % and 2 hex characters. For example, a space is converted to %20. Looks like you have %3D and %7C there - you can look up the codes at w3schools (and many other places). http://www.w3scho...

A new style with the next number will get generated each time the formatting is in a different content. (And I'd say it is Flare that introduces this, not Word). You'll first get p_screentext as a normal paragraph, but you'll get "_1" appended if it appears in another context like a table ...

I was going to suggest that you have a look at this old post: https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9241 but it talks about changing fonts and icons for the old webhelp - I think you can only change the icons via the skin editor for HTML 5 skins. Maybe you can use the browser dev...

Yes, you can delete targets. "Delete" is in the right-click menu and on the ribbon. Be aware if you delete the primary target, the system will then pick another as the primary and that can affect topic preview. I often create new targets just for testing items and have never had problems d...

This error pops up every now and then. Not sure of the exact reason but simplifying your word document can usually get it through. If the Word doc has macros, they can cause problems; same with cover pages. Some people have found that clearing the Import option to Create a Page Layout ... also avoid...

This can be done in the skin editor - Styles tab.
Have a look at the help file:
http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare12/ ... _Skins.htm

If you are looking for how to access the bookmarks, you just add a hashtag and the bookmark name (I don't think you can have spaces in the name). For example: <a href="html_tips.html#tips">Visit the Useful Tips Section</a> For links to other projects, you would need the whole URL where the...

We use context sensitive help IDs (CSH) for links across projects, though they are all stored on the same server and so we can easily set the base URL.

That was discussed recently - have a look at this topic:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=27679

Others have had this problem in the past, and usually running a Repair on Word will fix it - looks like a problem with the system environment. Worth a try.
Installaing .NET probably shouldn't break things, but it does change the system which could cause problems.

I've had problems with variables if there is a space in the variable name - they seem to work at one level, but not if you customise for a target. Try renaming from "Tab Name" to "TabName". How many topics have you used the variable? You might have to do a find/replace to make su...

Just guessing:
Have you embedded the images in the output? Maybe links don't work the same way in the Mac version.

There was a change to variables in the last major update - I understand it uses the language in Flare rather than the operating system now. (Note that I can't replicate this problem - short date always worked for me.) However, I now use the Date/Time variable (look up Custom Date/Time variables) - w...

I like the flagging option - I am happy for people to suggest updates, and then do the work so that makes sense, but updates have to be controlled.. Therefore I think in the parent, or template project, there would need to be a setting that allows updates, prevents updates, or has a flag to monitor/...

You can do this with conditions. I created a new Condition Tag set with only 2 tags - reviewON and reviewOFF. Using the file list, apply reviewOFF to every topic. When you want to want to create an output for review, assign reviewON to just those topics that you want, and build the target where you ...

As long as it is an option. Your suggestion makes sense for solo authors, but in a team who share files, I'd rather others weren't randomly updating topics that I use in my project. We use Project linking to try to keep things more standard and avoid the ad hoc changes. If that option were allowed, ...

We had a similar experience and so for quite a while now we store our projects locally when working, and use the ZIP function to zip the project and back it up on the network. We now all run a zip at the end of each day, and sometimes create a zip several times a day. You have to manually go in and ...

Are you importing Word files? I don't think you can disable the creation of the TOC, but I usually delete them as soon as I have run a Word import - I don't use the generated ones either.

Catapult is an internal name for Flare - if you look at the code for your target or TOC project files you will see this as the main element in the xml file. However, I'm not sure about the errors - looks like you may be linking to the wrong files in your TOC. So not much help but this might get you ...

To add to Daniel's note - here is the help page explaining more about templates in Flare - it might help: http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare12/Content/Templates/About_Templates.htm We keep templates for topics and projects in a central location and all the writers can access them easily. It's e...

... Wow, that's some sleuthing! ... I will admit to reading it in a help file some time ago. I had experimented with the automatic TOCs and came across a few problems. When I read about language skins I could only think Huh?? and I had to keep reading. While I think of myself as experienced, there ...

OK - I can see the problem with the Tripane-PDF-Basic skin. It looks like "TOC" is a default but you can change it - not obvious though. In the Project pane > Advanced, you can add what's called a "Language skin". This lets you change some language strings for print output. I had...