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I'm late to the party, but I've discovered -- as has been mentioned in other threads -- that Flare 2017 and later breaks JS. I tried to implement Dave's code, only to find that I have dead "Yes" and "No" links. Is there a workaround to get the script to execute? For the moment, I...

Hi Nita, I'm in the same situation. We have a breadcrumb trail and a print button. When the user clicks the print button, the breadcrumb prints on the first page and the content starts on the next page. Could you share what you're putting in your print media query? I went into our print medium and a...

We are moving our help files to an AWS host. This means at least 20 separate help systems linked from their respective applications, with no common landing page or root directory. We need to include robots.txt in the root directory of each help build. Is there a way for Flare to include robots.txt i...

Thanks. That makes sense in an undocumented and inconvenient way.

I was able to delete the list tags using a regular expression. I still don't understand why the wildcards don't work.

I have a Flare 10 project that was imported from Word, and has a lot of unwanted ordered lists. I need to remove all the lists and fix the formatting. Rather than unbind each list individually, I was hoping to just remove them all with a few find & replace actions. A typical tag is <ol style=&qu...

We just did something similar for a project. The application is in QT Framework. I gave the software developer CHM and mobile builds. Here's what he did: I maintained an internal map in code whereas help html pages are mapped to screen pointers(helpIds). So whenever user clicks a button, appropriate...

My problem with the plug-in was that I was using the remote client. I just had the fat client installed (Rational ClearCase Explorer 7.0.1.0). When I attempt to bind my project to ClearCase, Flare finds ClearCase but gives me a new set of problems. I have worked through three scenarios with no succe...

I'm trying to locate the Microsoft Source Control plug-in for ClearCase. It looks like I'll be tracking down the actual installation CDs in a large corporation. Does anybody know if there's an easier way? I can't find it on the IBM/Rational web site.

Sorry about that. I realized later that I should have provided some details. I finally got my color settings correct, but I want to change the font to the Verdana family. I can't find the right class to change. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/BB5Whack/help_control.jpg I'm curious about how Ma...

How many different things do I have to set in my stylesheet to get what I want in the Help Control menu?

Thanks Lisa. I'll read up on that. I should provide some more detail. The product screens & workflow can be customized with Visual Basic. Our custom help will document the customer's customization of the product. The only change to the skin would be the customer's logo instead of our own in the ...

We are planning to offer customized help as a professional service to our customers. What is the best way to integrate these customizations into the standard help file? Looking forward, how would you maintain the custom help as new software versions are released and the standard help is updated? :fl...

When I start a new project, Flare does not recognize the My Templates folder. Complicating things is our setup, where My Documents is on a network share (U:\My Documents). I saved My Templates there, and I copied it to the "normal" My Documents location. Flare does not show any templates a...

Is there a way to see the outbound links from a topic? Show Dependencies is good for showing links in, but I need something that works in reverse.

I found a coouple of things. The help.def file I was provided needs to be edited so that a. #define must be lower case b. comments are indicated by // rather than && c. it has an .hh suffix When I export the help file back to the developer I may have to convert the comment indicators to &...

This is a sample of the legacy format from help.def: && File Menu #DEFINE _H_KFlExprtData 211010000 && Export Data dialog #DEFINE _H_KFlBatLink 211020000 && Batch-Link dialog #DEFINE _H_KFlChUser 111030000 && Change User dialog #DEFINE _H_KFlCalc 111040000 && ...

I'm documenting an application built in FoxPro. Is it possible to export the header file as a .def?

Selecting non-print fixed it. Thanks.

I have defined the h1 tag in a stylesheet, but it is not honored by the XML editor and doesn't appear in the Styles window. I checked the CSS link and my topic is definitely using the right stylesheet. When I select "Edit class" the stylesheet even displays the correct definitions. What's ...

Thanks, Dave. I'm almost getting what I want, but it raises a couple more questions. 1. How can I adjust the placement of the text popup box when it opens. My spec calls for the popup to be Top edge flush with top edge of associated text link, and 3 px from right edge of associated text link. 2. Whe...

What is the difference between the classes
popup
popupHead
popupBody
.MCPopupBody
.MCPopupBodyBG

No matter what I do, my popups all look exactly like the topic.

Expand the Unclassified group and set the mc-master-page property to the name of the master page created in step 1, if one was used; otherwise leave this property blank.

I couldn't find this property at first. I had to select Show:Assorted Relevant Properties.

Dave Lee wrote: (I'm assuming the other David set up a span class span.bold)

That's exactly what I did. Then I saw that was possible to set up the bold in the autonumbering dialog box with curly braces {b}NOTE:{/b} -- or use the other method described above.

Thanks, Kevin. I started a new CSS, and it's possible I opened a skin file by mistake. I will try cut/paste my classes to a clean CSS and link it to my project.