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MadCap Flare has supported Eclipse Help since Flare 10 (which was released a couple months before your post). You don't say what version you're on, but is there some reason you're unable to use Eclipse Help, since that seems to be exactly what you're looking for?

The first time I visited the Flare 11 Help I was completely confused. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out the new navigation paradigm. I certainly don't think it's intuitive as a Help system, although I could see how the format could be useful if you were generating output for a web page. S...

I ran into a problem generating my HTML5 target recently. I thought I'd share how I solved the problem. Here's the background. I'm a longtime Flare user, and at my current job I convinced the PTB to convert from RoboHelp to Flare because we've started translating our doc and I wanted the ability to ...

OK, I've played around with this a bit. LTinker68, you're right, the save as .txt option is pretty ugly. Too ugly to the useful. (And now that I'm thinking about it, I think I might have tried that before I had posted to the forum.) RamonS - a big thank you for finding a solution that hadn't even oc...

I posted this question and then got distracted by another project (like you do). And then today I just saw that one of our Integration products wants a text file, because the environment that we're integrating with will allow plug-in extension packages to include documentation, as long as the docume...

Once again the MadCap forums to the rescue. You guys have come through for me so many times through the years. We just recently bought MadCap Suite and I was playing around with it before we had our "end of project" postmortem with our translation vendor. Because we're changing tools, I wa...

I pulled out my archive files last night, and this was for a WebHelp project, but since we're talking links, it should still be relevant. I originally found my answer here (giving credit where credit is due) http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=14371. Although I haven't tried me...

Miriam, At my last job I had a rather complex system with a Master project and 40 or 50 child projects. And I had trouble with my cross-project links too. I finally figured out that unless I wanted to hard code them, links can only go one way. Relative links only work from parent to child, or from c...

Bug report filed. Some additional things to note: Selecting the "Do not use "Content" folder in output" setting does seem to be part of the problem. I couldn't reproduce this unless I selected that option. Renaming the Resources folder in your project can break links to resources...

Awesome. I knew I couldn't be the only one having an issue generating HTML5 on Windows and then publishing to a UNIX server. MadCap Forums to the rescue again! Renaming the Resources file in my Content Explorer solved my problem (which was, as described by Feebeegeebee, that the Project files were l...

I know that "plain text" is not an output format for Flare. But one of my deliverables is release notes as a text file. Is there some way to automatically generate a text file out of Flare that doesn't require generating a PDF or Word doc and then saving that file as .txt?

Wow, it's been a while. I'm sorry but I can't remember if I ever knew the issue number or not. I'm pretty sure they fixed it in the next release, whatever number patch that was. My sympathies if you're having trouble with TFS. It's hard to track down the source of problems when you're got Flare, TFS...

The variable is System.PageNumber and I'm seeing the problem in the generated output. And the number isn't always the same. One PDF had every page numbered as "1" in another it was "48" and in another it was "50." The exact same test project, just tweaking my CSS, table...

I've got what I think may be a bug, but I thought I'd throw it out here first. I'm creating my page layouts and stylesheet mediums for PDF output. And I'm trying to figure out page numbering in the footers. The default position for the PageNumber varible appears to be centered, and I know that you c...

Thanks Nita! Much appreciated.

I have Flare 7 installed, and the PDF documentation can be found in the following directory: C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare V7\Flare.app\Resources\Guides I wanted to learn about creating/modifying skins for the new HTML 5 output, so I went to go look for the Flare Styles Guide in my F...

>It did, however, make me enter my license information and register all over again. Huh, seems like my update definately failed then. I ran it twice, because I thought it might have failed when I didn't see any kind of confirmation/done dialog box. But the Windows Unistall or Change a program screen...

I spent over an hour on the phone with support on Monday, and thought I’d report back on the results. It took us quite a while to track it down, since every time we thought we’d fixed the problem in one project, I’d test another project and it would pop up again. We eventually determined that ...

I’ve been getting the following error message: Problem(s) in FileList background thread: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name index [System.ArgumentOUtOfRangeException] Stack Trace…. Yes, I’ve done my homework. (And posted it her...

I think Flare's Help beats the pants off the Help for other tools that I've used (Word, FrameMaker, RoboHelp). Heck, when I was comparing tools a couple years ago, I couldn't even find a topic in the Author-IT Help for how to create a TOC or an Index! I've generally been able to answer most of my st...

I was getting the exact same error dialog EVERY time I save a file. And not just getting the error message once, but FOUR times. ARGH! After spending quite a bit of time poring over the forum this afternoon searching for answers, I found the solution to my problem. But to save others time, I’ve co...

Just to come back with a follow up on what we ended up doing. We ran into problems with the fact that the Engineering team is on a different domain from the doc team. Our TFS manager has given us access via a Web interface. We don't have to install the Team Foundation Server client or Visual Studio ...

And this is why I'm testing the Flare/TSF integration pretty thoroughly before I roll it out to the rest of my team.

Thanks for the solution!

We're in the process of converting from a homegrown legacy tool to Flare. Our development team uses Team Foundation Server and we're trying to figure out how to integrate the doc team with source control. I've only used Subversion previously and I have no idea how Team Foundation Server differs, so ...

I just ran into this same error today. And ChoccieMuffin's comment "I had hidden a style..." was what did the trick for me. Once I went in and enabled the couple of styles I had disabled, I was able to generate output again. I consider it a bug if there is a feature to hide styles, but usi...