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Conversely, it is slightly annoying that deleting an index tag from the topic does not remove it from the index itself. Leaves an 'empty' index reference, though this doesn't seem to appear in the output.

FWIW I have no such trouble on a Dell Latitude 2.66 Core2 Duo 4GB RAM Windows 7. No probs at all. Sorry.

That looks like a bad oversight. 'specially since cross-references were spruiked in the recent jumpstart. I've started using cross-refs instead of hyperlinks. May reconsider.

Thanks for the tip. Will look into it.

Thanks for that.

No biggie, to be honest - would just save a few minutes manual labour in Perforce.

Hi Michele - Perforce integration has been quite widely discussed here - the more discussion the better, as it should alert the MadCap developers to our issues. I've been using Flare with Perforce for about three years. Three of us share projects. We have a routine that allows us to share, even to w...

Rightio - reporting back.

Works just as Nita said. Is an improvement on previous, to my mind.

(Note to self: Read the instructions properly.)

You mean the Paste Table option? It works for me from Excel and Word (2007); haven't tried SQL server. No I actually meant the Paste Text dialog. From which you could choose to paste as a table. Yes, it is still possible in Flare 7. The interface for this functionality has changed in Flare 7, so it...

In case anyone else bumps into the same problem, I've just exchanged e-mails with MadCap support and learned that, with Windows 7, the system dpi needs to be set at 96 (normal). Here's what to do: 1. Right-click on the desktop. 2. Under Advanced Settings, click the "Make text and other items l...

I commonly cut-and-paste SQL query results from MS SQL Server into Flare topics. In Flare 6 this was simple - CTRL-C the results grid in SQL Server, CTRL-V into a topic. The Paste Text dialog comes up and I select the Paste as a table option. Not so in Flare 7 - just pastes as text. Same whether pas...

Hello there cayennep(epper?) Perforce is fine, and of course it handles all the things a source control system should do - in fact I really like Perforce. What I was trying to say is that because you cannot bind Flare to Perforce, any files added or deleted in Flare must then be added or deleted in ...

What I wanted is to apply a condition to all files in the folder, then change the condition of a few of them. As I said, easy enough to do a bulk properties change by showing files in the Content Explorer, selecting multiple files and doing a bulk properties change. In fact, since the folder conditi...

Some more unexpected behaviour - I have just discovered the file list panel, and I like it. However, keyboard navigation is a bit screwy: if you type the first letter or two of the file you want to find, the first file matching those letters is duly found and highlighted. Great. Now I want to down-k...

lacastle - I'm talking about the content explorer. i-tietz - no, all the files in the folder have the same conditions. In fact, they initially had no conditions and I wanted to apply the same condition to all. It is easy enough to show the files, multi-select and apply conditions to all at the same ...

Well I'll be darned. Why didn't I think of that?

Case closed.

Thanks, CM

Is there any way to temporarily hide the side panels? Content Explorer and Project Organizer etc on the left can be dragged to be wafer-thin, but the same cannot be done to the panel on the right - Styles, Link Viewer, Index Editor, etc. Is there a hidden option some where to collapse this panel whe...

Is it reasonable to expect that when you set a condition tag for a folder, that tag will be applied to all files in the folder? Coz it doesn't.

I can't think of a reason to have a condition tag applied to a folder but not to the contained files.

Anyone developing help for WPF? I'd like to integrate help into the interface of an application developed in WPF and .NET. I thought believe this was DotNetHelp's strong suit and selling point, if not raison d'etre. However when I presented the SDK to the developer-in-chief he told me that it was fo...

Before I put in a bug notice, has anyone else seen these behaviours recently? An error message when deleting the glossary from the list in the target properties dialog. Seems like it lets you delete from the list even though it doesn't like an empty list. When entries are removed from the alias edit...

I'd be interested in the result of your campaign. Not that I'm thinking of defecting - a few years ago I spent the best part of three months doing a Flare vs RH7 assessment. Ended up leaving RH (had been used in the company since the year dot) and adopting Flare. Very happy with the decision.

Dead right. I miss that too. Used it so much that I still reach for the right-click.

Did a bug request or RFE get submitted? If not, I'll be happy to do it.

I think you are referring to the Topic Title , set from Topic Properties on the Topic Properties (again!) tab. It was a while back that I imported a RH file, but I think I recall that the Topic Title was set to RoboHelp's TopicID. The closest thing to automatically assigning a Topic Title AFAIK is t...

Sure is

Use screen portraits instead, that way you can add as little detail as desired and the image still does all you need it to do in the context of documentation. See here: http://techwritetips.wordpress.com/2006/02/21/best-practice-screen-shots-vs-screen-portraits/ Call me picky, but I find it hard to...

A year on and it's still there.

Time to make the call to give up on DotNet Help, methinks...