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Agreed Riley.

I also filed a bug with Madcap titled, "You broke the Style Window!" I was hoping there was some secret option somewhere that toggled this new functionality but, alas, it's just a bug (or a rambunctious polar bear cub, depending on your slant ).

Just upgraded to Flare 8. Now every time I scroll down the Style window and click a paragraph style, the style window jumps back to the top. This did not occur in Flare 7 and is super annoying. I have my styles named a certain way so they are grouped together and when I scroll down the Style window,...

Lew, No magic that you haven't already discussed. I do manage a considerable amount of snippets as well and find floating the Content Explorer pane useful. That way, I can view nearly the entire list of snippets and drag and drop as needed. Always place your cursor first before drag and drop. Makes ...

Todd, The master contains a TOC entry topic with links to topics in the child Are you trying to link to a single topic in the child WebHelp system from the Parent TOC? I could be wrong, but I don't think this is possible. I think you can only link to an entire WebHelp system from a parent TOC. (Love...

Is there a trick to stacking merged help systems in your TOC? It does not seem to work.

That is, my TOC looks like this:

Welcome
[Merged Help 1]
- [merged Help 2]
- [merged Help 3]
[Merged Help 4]


Merged Help 2 and 3 are not appearing in the output.


Any help is appreciated!

Unfortunately, I discovered my theory was correct. Even though I am authoring from one project, I cannot include concepts in my See Also links to topics that do not appear in the same child TOC. Doing so includes the topic in the child's output files. Then, when you view a See Also link through the ...

I am currently working with Madcap Support on this issue, but I think I know why the See Also link is repeating topics when viewed by the parent Help system... For WebHelp targets, there is a new property on the Advanced tab called, "Exclude content not linked directly or indirectly from the ta...

I am generating a merged WebHelp system. I have 6 books in the TOC. The first is normal. The next 5 are subsystems which are compiled first and merged with the main Help. I am using Flare 7.1. The problem is, after I generate the main Help, the See Also links in my subsystem Help topics repeat. Has ...

Problem solved. Chalk this one up to poor error reporting. So the problem didn't actually have anything to do with the TOC. As far as I know, whether you build your TOC from scratch or borrow TOC items from another TOC does not matter. Your output to Word should still run. My error occurred because ...

Do you still get the error if you create a new TOC file, add a few topics, and associate the TOC to the output then build? Just tried it. No, I did not get the error when I just added a few topics to a new TOC, associated the new TOC, and built. (You are The Queen of Flare, Lisa, so I'm sure you ha...

I don't think that is possible, Nick. The work around is to get your table row to all appear on the same page. You can set your table Row to avoid inside page breaks. 1. Double-click table.css. 2. Click Rows tab. 3. Click Advanced button. 4. Under Page Break...Inside...click Avoid. I know it's not w...

I am receiving the following internal error when I try to output to Word. Any ideas? Generating final output... Saving word output... Generation of output can not be completed. Word encountered an error processing the XML file [topic name]. Ambiguous cell mapping encountered. Possible missing paragr...

aha ... intelligent environment needed, maybe even a learning one?`Why don't you write one, then? But if whining is a relief - feel free! I actually wasn't whining at all. I fixed my own error. The point is, Flare gives an obscure error message that can mean many things. Mine was just an example. B...

I had a strange occurrence with this error I thought was worth sharing. Problem : The "Object error not an instance of object" error was occurring at the tail end of my PDF build each time I compiled. To pinpoint the topic which could be missing a tag, as has been described, I added my cha...

Ramon and Steve, Thanks very much for the tips.

I am happy to report after manipulating the graphics in Paint and rebooting, Paint became an option in Flare.

Should be an easy one, but I can't figure it out. When I right-click a file and hover over Open Linked File With , mspaint.exe is not an option. Any idea how to fix this? Specifics: - This is a new Flare install for a colleague. - Paint is installed on the machine. - I edited an image in paint and u...

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Lisa, This worked. Thank you for your help. For posterity, to get the words "Chapter #" to appear in your TOC when you direct to pdf, you should: 1. Amend the mc-auto-number-format property for your H1 style with the following text: GA:Chapter {n+} This will add the text: "Chapter&quo...

I have now created two styles in the Print Medium: ChapterFirst and Chapter . The Auto-number-format style for ChapterFirst is: Chapter {n=1} The Auto-number-format style for Chapter is: Chapter {n+} This does not work. I generated and was still looking at "Chapter 1" for all Chapter topic...

Thanks. I am generating my output and viewing the numbers in the pdf. Neither of those variables seem to be working. When I use the {ChapterNumber} variable, I set the Auto Number property for the first chapter to "Reset to 1." Then, I set each successive chapter to "continue from pre...

Lisa, Thank you! I previously tried the solution in your middle paragraph, and that didn't work. I just tried the solution in your last paragraph and I am almost there...except that all my chapter numbers are "1." I am probably using the worng variable. I thought the {chapnumber} variable ...

How do I get the words "Chapter [chapter number variable]" to appear in the printed TOC? This should be a layup, but it is driving me nuts. I have a Page Layout with the words "Chapter [variable=System.ChapterNumber]" on the First page and tagged as an H1. It appears nicely above...

When you search, topics that contain the term appear even if the text is "hidden" in a toggler. Is there a way to have the toggler automatically open so you can see where the term is? It looks like Flare's own Help system solved this.

Thanks.

Does anyone know of a Flare property that lets you access the topics linked to a Search result with a single click instead of a double click?


Thanks.

As a work around, I got rid of the text from the skin and the stylesheet and created a bitmap with the Japanese term for the WebHelp. It doesn't make sense that the "Related Topics" would translate for the .chm and not the WebHelp, but you can only beat your head against a wall so many tim...