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Flare seems to import a DITA task. But on export, the structure differs from the original. Flare adds elements that aren't in the original. Flare also converts the more task-specific <steps> element to the more generic <ol> list. Does anyone know why? Here's the DITA before Flare imports it: <?xml v...

Hi,

I'm wondering how to get Flare to use a ditaval profile—imported with a DITA document set—in order to generate conditional output.

Thanks in advance for any answers.

Hi, I'm importing text from two sample DITA files into separate Flare projects: From the Encyclopedia Britannia (a common DITA sample on the Internet). From my client's sample text. In Flare, in the Encyclopedia project, the Great Britain Pound symbol, £, imports and appears correctly. In Flare, in ...

Hi, I've made a pilot project that imports DITA source files into Flare. The plan is to edit the content in DITA, so I've set the import to "link" the files. The Help in Flare says: Note: A link icon displays on tabs in the XML Editor next to file names that are imported from and linked to...

Hi, I'm setting up a pilot project that imports source DITA content into Flare. Quoting from the Help: Auto-reimport before 'Generate Output' This is also known as "Easy Sync." If you created a connection between your DITA source files and the Flare project earlier in the wizard, you will ...

Hi Matt,

I sure would love to know the answer to your question from a year ago.

Maybe you have figured it out since then?

If you have the/an answer to your question, please take a moment to post it, because that would be a great help to me.

-=- Jerome

Hi @khitchcock

I have no answer to your question, but your post raises this question:

• Where oh where is the Reimport button you mention?

My question is part of a larger question that I will probably post shortly—first I'm checking whether it's been asked and answered before.

An update: we solved this by getting developers to write a transformation script and validation scripts, and a dev-ops to implement various Jenkins pipeline jobs. Goals for the content: Speedy changes, managed One goal was to manage—by using Flare—all text that appears in the UI of a web application...

I'd forgotten the solution but I remembered asking this question before. Your responses are still useful. Thanks.

MadCap recommends a fix at the end of this post: https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=18525&start=25 Developers think that the whole world can just fix things by editing the registry. MadCap end users who work in a mid-sized or large corporation know they cannot access the...

tyip wrote:MadCap support suggests trying two things. …

MadCap is out of touch with its customers, on this one. I work in a corporate environment where the registry is locked down and it's two weeks of effort and explaining how I'd need access to the registry to fix a vendor's bug.

Not.

ajturnersurrey wrote:If you go and copy some text to paste in maybe you do that step without realising?

Ha ha! Use the Find box to search for the text … that I just copied from a topic and pasted into the Find box?

So where do we vote for bugs to fix? I mean—do any of us need more features? or do we need usability?

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I solved it! What doesn't work : dragging the bars to re-order them with the accordion. That is, you can drag to re-order during the session, but the new order does not persist to future sessions. What does work : Do it in three steps. Prepare . Display all the panes that you want in the same accord...

Hi, I've noticed this problem lately, and I wonder if I'm missing something? In the Find and Replace in Files pane, in its Find box, when I click in the box, it gets focus, as expected. In other words, the insertion point—the blinking cursor—appears in the Find box I clicked. However, when I try to ...

This drives me crazy in Flare 12. I have several panes in accordion mode. How can I set which one is on top/expanded by default when Flare opens? Every time it takes an extra click. For example, the Content Explorer and the Project Organizer share an accordion pane. I would love Content Explorer to ...

Hi, In Flare 12 I am using a target of PDF, and I am using the sample UserGuide as the starting point for my project. When I build the output, the table of contents has this heading: TOC I would like to change it to: Table of contents I have searched every place I can think of to modify this text. Q...

The "Why don't you copy" suggestion is precisely the issue, because the content is being ingested by an automated process, and so the output requres custom scripting in order to groom out the unwanted elements, such as the Skin and Data folders.

Hi, We're triggering MadBuild from the command line to build HTML5 output. I'm getting an error that causes a non-success exit code (Exit 7). <Errors> <LogEntry File="../../../Project/Targets/HTML5.fltar" Message="Publish skipped: No destination selected. " LineIndex="-1&quo...

When I build Flare's HTML5 output, i get a Skins folder.

This is confusing to non-Flare users on the team, and we only need the .htm files.

How can I prevent the Skins folder from appearing?

How can I stop Flare from building the Data folder in the output when I build HTML5?

We don't need the Dat folder, because we only need the htm files. It's confusing to newbies on the team to have extra folders.

I only need the content files, not the Search.htm file that Flare produces when I build the Target HTML5.

How can i stop that search.htm from building?

… Last week I toggled a setting on , and now I can't find it to switch it off . When editing markup, Flare autocompletes the pair. if I type <h2> then Flare inserts the </h2>. In case you're curious, this feature is not for me, because I insert a lot of comments, and when I start typing a comment (w...

Thanks.

By the way, the minimum 25 characters on a post suggests that we're not suppored to post social niceties such as "thanks" or "you're welcome".

What's the ettiquette?

Hi, In an earlier version of Flare, I knew how to display all the error messages relating to a build, messages that would occur while building a target. In Flare 12, on the Builds tab, I see messages flashing by (incuding some disconcerting ones about missing files), but it's too fast to read, and t...

—If there is a better board, let me know; I'll try to move this post.— I'd like to be able to signal to MadBuild, through some action in Flare, that "You can go ahead and trigger the whole automated generate-and-ingest process, now." What events in Flare (or resulting from a suer action i...