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Check out the publishing feature in Flare. You could create a folder on your C:\ drive and put the videos in there, then set up the Flare project to publish the CHM file to that folder. I've never tried the publishing feature with a CHM file, but it should work, and you don't need to use FTP to do ...

How can I add files to project that are just copied to the same output directory as the CHM file (I don't want them embedded).

This is to handle Videos that just are not reliable when embeded.

I can do it outside of flare, but flare wipes the output directory every time.

The Videos must be in the ...

We are having a nightmare with using different formats.

I could get SWF flash to work (but I could not get controls to show up). Quality and size of video was rather large but that could be a reencoder issue that I could fix.

I could not get FLV to work at all.

I could get MP4 to work on some ...

We have a dead simple website that we use WebHelp implement.

Most WebHelp Features disabled, TOC, Searching etc.

It's all working fine but the initial WebPage loads pretty slow.

Is there a way to control all the stuff that gets put into MadCapAll.js.

We may use some of the WebHelpfeatures in the ...

We have many references to our Product Name which may change.

I'd like what's displayed for the Product name in one place. The Product name might stand alone or be a Prefix to something else.

For example think of ThinkPads. They might have ThinkMessage, ThinkMaintenance, ThinkPad.

I'd like the ...

Sorry this is not a MicroSoft format but a propriatary format. Still pretty interesting though.

Microsoft is introducing a new help format for WPF applications.

It would be real nice if MadCap supported producing this file format

I would have filed a ticket but I'm locked out because my support is not currently active.

lacastle wrote:You can submit an Enhancement Request to have this option available - https://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx

I did submit a bug.

I ended up writing my own wrapper that searches results for the word "Missing" and failing the build if found.

Not what I would call an "enterprise" development tool. Nor is it's support.

Is there a way to get MadBuild to Exit with FAILURE rather than success !! even when referenced files are missing !!

I can't find any command line arguments. I looked in projects etc. and fine nothing.

In most development projects folks use source code control and build servers.

Users sometimes ...

When I add a hyperlink to another document it nicely defaults the the "Link Text" to the title of the document I'm linking to.

If I change the location it nicely updates all links.

But if I change the title in the document being linked it does not update the Link Text. This is bad and could be a ...

It's gone !!!

Thank you.

This forum is not designed by anyone from MadCap. The forums software is phpBB, one of the most popular and widely used forum platforms out there. If you think some function doesn't work right I recommend to bring it to the attention of the phpBB folks. That said, I think it works just the way it ...

Correct, drives me insane.

This is what it looks like when I click Post Reply button

If you had seen it before how come you didn't log it

They said they logged it.

the CSH for Dot Not should work with out you needing to add anything by hand, I would talk to support if you are still having issues.

You have to specify the help ID's somewhere either manually or have them generated from tags.

I would have hoped you put some tag on a document but it appears you ...

Why would saving the post as a draft lose it?

I just loaded this from a draft I saved. Check User Control Panel > Manage Drafts. Load the draft, and then select Submit.

I hit the Save button a couple of times, too. I wish it were somewhere not right next to Submit and Preview, but it's actually ...

This is extract of setting up templates:



In Windows Explorer, find and copy the entire project folder that you created.

example

Let's say you have created a Flare project and stored it here: My Documents\My Projects\TheBigProject. In this case, you would copy the folder called "TheBigProject ...

Ah I found it. Can't believe you have to manually add CSHID's to the table and link them.

I feel like I've gone back 20 years to LaTeX and TeX land with this tool.

Older tools you'd add some sort of tag on the page and it would add it automatically to the CSHID table same for TOC.

May I be so bold as to ask how you even got that far

I can't figure out how your wire and create the context ID's.

All I keep reading and seeing is the old style .h file for C++ which I'm familiar with.

How are the ID's passed to a .Net C# app?

Thanks

I can't tell you how many times I've hit Save (because it's the default action) and lost my post.

It's a feature that's over kill and broken.

Get rid of it.

Just a suggestion. I use tons of forums and I've never tripped over myself as much as I have here.

Not sure where else to report this, don ...

This is a merge module

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx

MadCap Supplies one (in their SDK) but it's outdated. I'd like to test and deploy on the same version.

I have a Nant Script that does a command line build using madbuild.

If the madbuild fails it always returns 0 (pass) in the build even when it fails (e.g. missing file).

If I already have 4.2 Viewer installed

Why is the MergeModule trying to Install It and Uninstall it when I run my installer.

It should see a newer version already exists and skip it.

I'm using InstallShield 2009 Hybrid (InstallShield Script/MSI) Project Type.

This is really painful in house on ...

Is there a 4.2 Merge Module for the Viewer?

I only found 4.1 in the SDK for the Viewer.