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The TextEditor is one of the low points of the Flare UI. It has several other flaws that wear me to the bone.

I couldn't agree more. Come on MadCap - sort this out. The editor is the fundamental part of Flare and it's barely usable.

Thanks Dave.
That's a shame. In a big global project that's used by many target projects it would be more intuitive just to use the directory structure (perhaps supplemented by conditions).
But anyway, thanks for your help.

I have a global project from which I want to import all files in a certain folder.

In the Include Files field of the import form I want to do this: However, this doesn't work. Nothing gets imported.
Is there a way to achieve this?

I have this in my HTML: <img style="max-width:80rem" src="../Resources/images/myimage.png" /> When I generate output (HTML5 help) I get this in the output HTML: <img style="width: 640;height: 532;" src="../Resources/images/myimage_640x532.png"> My target does ...

Response from MadCap: Subject: Re: (Case 127814) MadCap Flare 2017 r3 Support: No way for users to see that a search filter is applied Hello Alistair, Thank you for contacting Madcap Technical Support. Currently, this feature is not yet implemented. However, I have added your information to the feat...

I was hoping to find out how to do this exact thing. Hopefully Madcap have added this since it was requested last year. At the moment there is no way for the user to know that a filter is still applied. They can do a search and not realize that the reason they're not getting any results is because a...

I have figured it out.

This functionality only works if your HTML files use the file name extension .htm.
All our files use the extension .html, which is preventing this from working.

I will log a bug with MadCap.

Thanks. It's not a highlighting issue. The label in the properties contains the text of the h1 from the topic rather than the variable.

From Flare help: When you drag a topic into a TOC to create a link to it—or if you click [icon] to create a new topic at the same time that you add a new TOC entry—you’ll notice that the text is blue. This doesn’t mean it will show up blue in our output, it means that it contains a system variable c...

I have a Flare TOC for PDF output whose first entry is itself a PDF. This gives me a nicely designed title page in the resulting PDF output from Flare. However, it also puts an entry for the title page into the table of contents in the PDF. I want the first entry in the output table of contents to b...

HAve you tried using "Chapter Break" rather than "Page Break"? If you do that you may need to mess about with your chapter numbering for genuine chapters, but I do that for all my (hundreds of) projects with no problems. And there it is! Thank you so much. That surely isn't how ...

Thank you Sarah. What you have described is exactly my understanding of how things *should* work. However, when I do this I still get a header and footer on that page, even though the page layout I have associated the topic with is a blank page with no header/footer.

I have a Flare TOC for PDF output like this: - Title page (this is a one-page PDF) - Copyright page - TOC proxy page (to insert the contents list) - Link to another Flare TOC (to insert the actual topics) Most of the book has the same running header and footer, but I want the copyright page to have ...

Joining this discussion late, but this is still an issue in Flare 10.2, so that feature request obviously fell on deaf ears. This is a perfectly legitimate feature to expect. The repetition of the heading at the start of the abstract/description for each search result is just plain bad. The meta des...

I'm in Flare 10.2 and also looking for an answer to this. I have a very full Messages pane that keeps appearing because Flare's CSS parser doesn't like my W3C-compliant CSS.

Too bad this was never answered.

With HTML5 output, if Javascript is disabled only the outer frame loads, leaving a big empty box on screen. The inner contentBody div is not filled, so I can't see any obvious way of putting some simple text onto the page to suggest to the user that they might like to enable Javascript. If I could a...

Lydia, thank you. I did search, but didn't find that topic. That information is exactly what I needed. And why didn't I think of that? Publishing: of course! Anyway, thanks again - much appreciated.

Let's say I have a target called "embedded-help" and I set the Output Folder for this target to: C:\some-path\MyProject what I would like to get is output in: C:\some-path\MyProject\embedded-help However, the output actually gets put in: C:\some-path\MyProject\Output\embedded-help Does any...

Yeh, I guess using the template and just deleting the h1 filename heading every time is a better workaround.

Still, it's annoying if Madcap have made the assumption that all topics you'll ever want to create with a template will start with a heading.

I'm going to be writing a number of very short topics which provide text that the application will pick up and reuse (i.e. these aren't displayed in a standard output). I want to use a template, so that I can go New > Topic and choose a topic template with very little in it. Specifically these topic...

I've found one brief mention of this issue in this forum, relating to Flare 8, but - given it's such an obvious bug - I'm kind of amazed I'm still finding this in the copy of Flare 10 I'm evaluating. When I insert an image I get an Open File dialog box. It displays shortcuts as .lnk files - i.e. whe...

OK, the solution seems to be: patience. I left Flare sitting overnight - apparently hanging & unresponsive - and in the morning it had finished importing the files from Subversion. The pattern is the same every time. The import gets about two-thirds the way through really quickly: the "Retr...

I have existing projects in a Subversion repository that I want to use in Flare 7, with the new SVN support. Despite having these checked out locally already (using TortoiseSVN) it seems that the only way to get Flare to work with the repository is to remove my local copy and import the projects afr...

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> Was there something that WordPress couldn't do that Flare can? WordPress is great for date/time-based entries, that's what it was designed for: logging. There are lots of ways to allow you to find things in a blog by category or tag - but essentially, if there's no date/time element to your entrie...