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We use TortoiseSVN and have not bound Flare to SVN.
We have always used different branches for different versions of our set of Help files, and the working copies of these different versions are in separate folders on the local computers. This has worked fine, but admittedly, there is a lot of disk ...

Thanks for your replies, everyone.
I conclude that to replace code, you must use third-party tools.

I am not trying to do anything in particular now, but when working with large projects of 1000+ topics, it is an indispensable tool.
I have used external replace tools and still use Notepad++ for day ...

Flare claims to support regular expressions, however I find the documentation more than inadequate:
Use This is an advanced feature for users who are familiar with wildcard and regular expressions in searches. If you select this check box, you can specify whether the search will include wildcards ...

I recommend to make sure you have covered the basics:
All topics open in the XML editor, i.e. their XML is valid.
Your TOC is set up correctly and there are no broken links
Your stylesheet is linked to the project and there are no conflicts with the settings on the target or the topic level

These ...

I am missing this feature, too - I was looking for it when I came across this post.
I suppose at the target level with the option to overrride it at the topic level would be desirable at a minimum.

A very big table caused me problems before. I would look for unusual formatting you may be using, like special characters, huge topics or elements, etc. Remove one and see whether it's fixed. Annoying, I know - been there myself, but I guess that's software work for you.

You're not being nosy at all.
The tool is HelpStudio, it is made by a company called Innovasys.
You would set up your multi-language project by having a separate project settings sheet, separate phrases that are already localised (like 'click to shrink'), etc.
Within the project, you would select ...

Our legacy HTML Help authoring tool enabled us to assign multiple Help IDs to a single topic.
As a result, we can link a number of Help buttons in different dialogues to one topic, which saves resurces.
Is that possible in Flare 6?

Thank you for your input, all.
It turns out that our translators can handle Flare projects and do it all for us, however we will end up with a separate project for each language.
It would be way cooler to have them all in one project, which is what our legacy tool was doing. But I am sure there are ...

MadCap have confirmed this as a bug.

Yes it does fix the strange open tab, but it is not a very graceful way of Flare telling us that the XML in that topic is not 100%, which unfortunately will be the case often when importing topics from elsewhere. I found that using the internal text editor prevents it from happening. That way, you ...

Yes, we are using a master page, and it does contain <MadCap:bodyproxy />.
When I turn off tag view, I can see the content fine.
I can also see the content in the .chm output. I haven't tried other output.
It's really just about Layout (Web)
The body tags have no weird attributes and are the same ...

Thanks for your suggestions; they made me realise that I was missing one or two details when describing the issue.
Yes, I am in tag view, i.e. the toggle show tags button is orange/selected.
The issue does not materialise in normal mode.
Clicking the Layout (Web/Print) button does make a difference ...

I use an empty head section in my topics and the topic title between h2 tags coming first within the body section.
Then, using the internal text editor, in the ]body section, when I have just content that is divided up entirely between exactly three sections of drop-down text, not even with br tags ...

I had the same problem in Flare 6.1 under Vista, and despite all the .dll files being registered correctly already, I had to re-register itcc.dll to fix the issue.

xactly what I am trying to do. I have started but somehow it does not seem to be working. Did you ever receive a reply?

Many thanks for your help, it is fixed in version 6.1.

In Flare 6, the Project Analyser function, under Database Errors, shows a number of error messages that refer to the MadCap: segment tag, for example:
The 'MadCap:segment' start tag on line 4 does not match the end tag of 'p'. Line 4, position 2557.
When I double-click the message to open the ...

I thought I'd let people know what caused the issue for me:
MadCap Analyzer (the built-in version) kept getting stuck at a certain percentage, which turned out to be a particular topic that contained a large table with 830-ish rows.
I know what you're thinking, but it was a good solution in our ...

Thanks for your reply.
No, the CPU usage levels stays up as long as I have Flare open - it remains high even when I close the project.
The system is generally not slow at all, it is very responsive, that's really why I am wondering what's going on.
I may log a call with Support after all.

Hi, I am experiencing a similar issue and turning off IntelliSense does not make a difference - have you heard anything from Support?
On my Vista computer, dual core 2.20GHz processor with 4GB of memory, Flare increases the CPU %age when I start it, but it is when I open the project I am working on ...

x2 - did you ever receive a reply?

In Flare 6, is there a way of exporting the project for translation without using MadCap Lingo? I am a very new user to Flare and we want to do it to test this process only to realise that other than Save As, there does not seem to be a function in Flare that does it. But I wonder is Save As ...

Thanks for the prompt help, I'll try that.

Our Help projects were created in a Help authoring application called HelpStudio.
Has anyone got any experience with importing topics from HS projects?
So far, I have managed to import html files to Flare, but when I attempted to open one and clicked Yes to have it converted to XML, for every .html ...