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Hello,
I'd like to see a list of topics to which each conditional tag is applied. Said another way, I'd like to see which conditional tags are applied to which topics. For example, if I have a conditional tag called "Online Only" I'd like to see the associated 100 topics. Is there any way to do this ...

Ah ha! That was it. Thank you! I knew I was missing something! Thank you Lisa and Richard.
The folder had the tags. I removed the tags.

before with the tags
the inappropriate topics were being included. after without the tags
the inappropriate topics are now excluded.

Yes, I've marked the topic as excluded in the Content Explorer and the TOC. I've marked the index keyword, the topic in the content explorer, the content in the topic, and the topic in the TOC with the Imp-Worksheet tag.

This topic is tagged with the Imp-Worksheets tag ONLY.
When I compile the ...

Hello,

It seems I have a problem with content tagged with a condition not being excluded in the search. I don't know what I'm doing wrong so please advise me!

Here's the scenario (stick with me, it's more straightforward than it appears...)
I have five tags:
Theory
Implementation
Non-Worksheets ...

Hello All,

I'm wondering if there is a way in Flare to turn "off" the changing of the TOC for re-used topics. Let me explain what I mean.

Here's a sample table of contents:

Book 1
- Topic A
- Topic B
- Topic C (reused)
Book 2
- Topic D
- Topic E
- Topic C (reused)

Say the user is in topic D and ...

Thanks RamonS. Your post made me laugh and it was sooo true. I just ran into this comment last week...

Hi Wil,

I applied your steps as you outlined and it worked like a charm.
I'm SO glad I didn't have to sit here for hours and figure this out (I had spent two, was fed up, and decided to look on the forum).

i've decided that the topic "Specifying Chapter Breaks and Page Layouts" doesn't work ...

Hey, I tried to set it to "not set" in Flare but it didn't work. Kept going back to zero. I open the style sheet and deleted the margin-left and this set it to "not set." But the WYSIWIG and preview still have the same problem.

I've adjusted the OL so it has no left margin and I've set the LI left margin to 15px.

It's fine in the compiled help, but looks strange in the WYSIWIG and Preview. I'm not sure why - perhaps something with the software?

WYSIWIG
formatting on WYSIWIG1.png

Preview
formatting on preview1.png ...

Ok! Thanks Lisa and Doc_Guy. I will do both of these things.

I'll post the style sheet... in text here because I can't post the file.

/*<meta />*/

h1
{
font-weight: bold;
margin: 0pt;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 16pt;
color: #0053a5;
margin-bottom: 6pt;
margin-top: 12pt;
}

h2
{
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Arial;
margin-bottom: 12pt ...

The medium and stylesheet are working together properly as you outlined, Paul.

I fixed my style sheet so the numbers don't appear off the screen in the HAT. But the medium still doesn't "stick." If I set the medium to "non-print Medium" then open another topic, it opens to the "default" medium.

I ...

Update:
Hmm, OK looks like it's a problem with my stylesheet with the numbering going off the page. In Firefox it looks fine but in IE the numbers go off the page.

But still, how do you get that Medium to stick?

I've just installed Flare 4 and the numbers in my numbered lists are off the screen to the left side. From the topic toolbar, if I select "Medium (default)" then the numbers are brought back onto the screen. When I open a new topic, this setting is "Medium (non-print)" and I have to change it to the ...

Thanks Lisa!
I'm not sure if I set that or if it was done automatically. In the future I will double check that setting!

Theresa

Hi Lisa,

For the TH, I changed "float: left" to float: (not set)" and this fixed the problem.

Do you know why this would happen?

Theresa

These are the styles in Style.css

TH
th
{
font-weight: bold;
margin-bottom: 2px;
margin-top: 2px;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 10pt;
float: left;
text-align: left;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
padding: 2px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border ...

FF: 2.0.0.16
IE: 7.0.5730.11

The code in IE:

<table style="margin-left: 0;margin-right: auto;caption-side: top;">
<col style="width: 303px;" />
<col style="width: 403px;" />
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Standard Name</th>
<th>Website</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tr>
<td>
<p>Simple Object Access Protocol ...

Hello,

I'm having a formatting problem with firefox and haven't been able to find the resolution in the forum or KB.

In IE, my table looks like this:
tableIE.png

In Firefox, my table looks like this:
tableFirefox.png

I can't figure out why Firefox is doing this. I have tried formatting the ...

I tried putting the XML files in the Content>Resources folder, but the build process still messes them up. The only success I've had is having the structure as:
Help Project\\Content
Help Project\\XML Files

When I had:
Help Project\\Content\\XML Files
or
Help Project\\Content\\Resources\\XML Files ...

I'll definitely try that this week and let you know! Hopefully that will work, would save a step after the project has been compiled.

Cheers,
Theresa

Hi,
I've got non-project XML files. These are files that the developers gave to me, produced by visual studio, that I'm incorporating into the project. They're formatted with their own XSL and CSS.

If i have them in the content folder, then they're messed up. If I don't have them in the content ...

If I didn't use the extension .XML, what file extension would I use?

I got this response from the support team:

You are correct, the files are being changed by Flare, Flare see the xml files and is trying to make them Valid xhtml and is changing your text if files. I have logged this with our developers to give you the option not to modify XML files that are not ...

The original question that DocNiNjA asked was that Flare SCREWS up the XML once you produce webhelp.

I'm having this problem too and so far the answer I've received from Flare tech support:

The reason this is occuring is becasue Most of your topics are XML files, In your Content Explorer go to ...