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The use case for me is that I have topics that are mostly the same but the screen shots are different for every client. I want to use a variable to point to a different folder for every client. The file names for the screen shots are the same. Only the folder is different. This functionality alread...

I had this problem, and it was a Zendesk authorisation thing. You need to be a very specific type of Zendesk admin, not just their "admin lite" thing. I can't remember the exact terminology, and the Flare docs on Zendesk stuff could do with being updated with the current Zendesk terminolog...

Can't think of any way to do that, but how many different versions of the manual do you need to build? Could you have three or four targets with those variables set, so you don't have to think about setting them each time? It might be a bit too much of a pain if you have more than two different valu...

Thank you both - I will tell the author to give it a try. She needs to use soft breaks, not P Tags due the spacing - this is for screen text input/output, so she doesn't want the large space in between lines, but for regular content the spacing must remain as is with regular P tags. Thank you! I su...

You could do it with the WIDTH thing. Not in Flare at the moment, but you can define what medium is used depending on the width of the screen. Because mobile screens are typically a lot narrower than tablets or laptops, that's how I would approach the problem.

Just a quick message on what, for many, is the last day before the Christmas break. I just wanted to wish you all a happy Christmas and a peaceful, and fruitful, 2024. Thank you all for contributing to the forums, I've certainly learned a lot from you all over the last 12 months (and lots of years b...

I'm guessing your primary target is PDF. I seem to remember coming across that bug years and years ago, and the way I got round it was to set the primary target to a web target (don't quote me on that - it was lots of years ago, so I might be misremembering). I can't remember if I ever logged a bug,...

If there is, I've never found it. But I have used Beyond Compare, which I found much clearer than the comparison in GIT, because it shows you exactly what the differences are, not just the fact that there are differences.

Breadcrumbs relate to the main TOC (what's in the side nav if that's what you're using), so I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve. If your main TOC has the sub-tocs nested in them, it should work. I can't quite picture what you've done, so I can't suggest a solution for you.

In brief, snippets are your answer.

I can confirm, branching is now supported in Central.

When you DO get buy-in and permission, there are a couple of things that might help reduce a tiny bit of the inevitable pain. 1. Make sure your writers all have the same file/folder structure on their machines. So, for example, if you have your global project in D:\Flare\Global and your child projec...

You might find MadCap staff pop into the forums but they don't actively monitor them - they're really for users to talk to each other rather than for MadCap to keep an eye on things. When adding bugs, I do often include a link to any threads that have been talking about the problem, but for this par...

Building on your very helpful reply, in order to get it to display correctly in both the XML Editor and the built output, I had to list both bits in my stylesheet, where the first item makes the XML Editor work, and the second makes the built output work. So my stylesheet contains these (where "...

@NorthEast, I think I love you! :D Thanks for that very clear explanation. I'm just about to test it but it makes very obvious sense so I'm not expecting to come back with any further questions. I don't think the Flare documentation says enough about some of the features that a lot of us use, such a...

This is the screenshot.

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I have an odd problem and can't work out what I have done wrong. In my stylesheet I have styling defined for a dropdown, but I want to make a nested dropdown display differently. Code for dropdowns from my stylesheet shown below. (Before you cringe at what it looks like, I added the third bit (the b...

I suggest you also reach out to MadCap directly through the team you purchased from, as they should be able to give you some targeted guidance for your situation - after all, they want you to keep buying Flare licences so it's in their interest to help you get your projects converted! :D Their Tech ...

I found them here: https://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Flare/General/GEN1075F%20-%20Flare%202023%20r2%20Release%20Notes.htm Thanks for that link. Unfortunately they haven't included 2023r2 in the side nav menu, so if you want to look at the release notes, you need to click that link. I think I'll...

marvin mallari wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 3:15 pm Hello folks, sorry for the delay. The release notes and system requirements have been published in the knowledge base.

Could you give a specific link please? I am looking at http://kb.madcapsoftware.com and I can't see 'em. Thanks!

I notice that 2023 r2 is now available to download, and there's a message saying "check the knowledge base for release notes" but I can't find them. Has anyone seen the elusive release notes anywhere? If so, please share a link.

Thanks!

It does sort itself out eventually, and as a workaround I find myself typing the thing I want to find into my topic then cutting and pasting into the Find box.

Think I need to do a(nother) bug report!

... the 6.1.1 heading style is p.headingSub1 ... You've identified the cause of the problem, because your heading 3 isn't actually a heading, it's a paragraph. If you want headings to behave like headings, you ought to use h1 - h6 rather than a class of p. But that might not be practical if your pr...

I don't use Slack because my previous employer banned it as a security risk, and I'm not going to go looking at something on my personal account that I have to access from my personal computer rather than my work computer, because I don't turn on my personal computer very often. The forums are my go...