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- Wed May 08, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Stop auto-inserting h1 tags in new topics
- Replies: 1
- Views: 178
Re: Stop auto-inserting h1 tags in new topics
The following probably isn't the most helpful reply, but I'm wondering what use case there would be for this? If you're creating a topic fragment, then perhaps it would be better to go straight to a snippet? If you're planning varying heading levels (perhaps that topic gets an H1 but this one gets H...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:22 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Relationship Tables as Dropdowns?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 456
Relationship Tables as Dropdowns?
Wondering how to achieve a relationship table that's rendered as a dropdown in a SideNav HTML5 target. I suspect that there's more to it than just setting the CSS style. Like maybe adding some JavaScript? Does anyone know how to achieve this? Update: I found a simple solution. Just pop the relations...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:43 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Labelling for ChatBots.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1038
Labelling for ChatBots.
Wondering if anyone has any insight into this art? I'm not finding much online that will guide me. My goal is to ensure that topics are structured so that Bing and whatever other Chatbots are out there trolling can take customer questions and build useful answers from our published documentation. My...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:27 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Mad Cap Search not working, is TFS to blame?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 18713
Re: Mad Cap Search not working, is TFS to blame?
Have you tried clearing your browser cache? Happens to me every time I upload a fresh doc build. The old search chunks are cached and therefore a search won't find the new chunks. Ctrl-F5 and all is well. I can count on a few complaints about the search not working after every update. The IT team ha...
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 12:59 pm
- Forum: Simon's Career Network
- Topic: Technical Writer & Course Developer - Nova Scotia
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5361
Re: Technical Writer & Course Developer - Nova Scotia
Update: The position has been filled.
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 12:22 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: How many Relationship Tables do you use?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 499
How many Relationship Tables do you use?
For those who use any at all. ;) I'm planning to make more use of these for cross-links of functions and properties, because it's difficult to update all topic instances when a new one is added to the family. There are a lot of them, so I'm considering whether to use multiple Relationship Tables for...
- Tue May 30, 2023 10:51 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Crop the same image multiple times
- Replies: 6
- Views: 852
Re: Crop the same image multiple times
Haven't actually tried it, but wouldn't that just be a CSS clip? Copying from the W3 schools example:
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img {
position: absolute;
clip: rect(0px,80px,200px,0px);
}
- Fri May 12, 2023 9:41 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Exclude * except... ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 672
Exclude * except... ?
Is it possible to write a conditional that says "include NOTHING except for these marked items." ? Maybe I just need more practice writing advanced conditional statements but... From what I've found, anything not marked with a conditional will be included by default. I have a project where...
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 12:53 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Field-level Context-Sensitive Help
- Replies: 2
- Views: 662
Re: Field-level Context-Sensitive Help
That would normally be done by the developers. On the documentation side, you can't do much beyond specify which topic is to open.
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 12:45 pm
- Forum: Simon's Career Network
- Topic: Technical Writer & Course Developer - Nova Scotia
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5361
Technical Writer & Course Developer - Nova Scotia
Hi folks, At my urging, my employer is beginning the search for someone to help with creating and maintaining our documentation, creating and maintaining our course workbooks & online learning portal, and all such things related to writing and teaching. Naturally, the ideal candidate should have...
- Mon Aug 02, 2021 11:58 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Flare 2021 r2 Compiles HTML with Only Flare Factory Skin :(
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1081
Re: Flare 2021 r2 Compiles HTML with Only Flare Factory Skin
The release notes have a warning about that. ( https://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Flare/General/GEN1067F_-_Flare_2021_r2_Release_Notes.htm?cshid=GEN1067F ) But, I just updated, loaded my project (after making two separate backups), and built my primary Side-Nav target. Can't see a single thing th...
- Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:08 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Slideshow arrow placement?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 884
Slideshow arrow placement?
Can anyone suggest a way to keep slideshow arrows away from the text and images in a slide? I know I can disable the arrows and use the dots instead, but people seem to have trouble with those. Ideally, I'd like to set margins for the slide content so that text stays between the arrows instead of ru...
- Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:02 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Aligning slideshows in page?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3075
Re: Aligning slideshows in page?
Okay, I'm a year-and-a-half late with this, but just in case someone else finds this thread while trying to solve the same problem...
The answer is to edit the MadCap|slideshow style, and configure Block > text-align: to "left".
The answer is to edit the MadCap|slideshow style, and configure Block > text-align: to "left".
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:04 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Wanna break your slideshows?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1150
Re: Wanna break your slideshows?
Good rules to live by.
My experience is that there's lots of information on the style part of CSS and not nearly enough on the cascading part.
I can hack my way through adjusting styles when I need to, but I'm always tripping over just where the tags are, or should be, applied.
My experience is that there's lots of information on the style part of CSS and not nearly enough on the cascading part.
I can hack my way through adjusting styles when I need to, but I'm always tripping over just where the tags are, or should be, applied.
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 1:22 pm
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Wanna break your slideshows?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1150
Wanna break your slideshows?
Just add
to your style sheet. The result is that you'll see only the final slide in the show, no matter what.
Took me three hours to track down that mistake. <sigh> Now if I could only remember *why* I added that tag to my style sheet...
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div
{
clear: both;
}
Took me three hours to track down that mistake. <sigh> Now if I could only remember *why* I added that tag to my style sheet...
- Wed Aug 19, 2020 12:33 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Build Failed...Styles.css is denied
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1305
Re: Build Failed...Styles.css is denied
Two guesses: The file is open in some editor that has a lock on it. Someone changed permissions on that folder.
- Wed Aug 19, 2020 12:24 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Alias File
- Replies: 1
- Views: 871
Re: Alias File
A bit late replying, but maybe better late than never. The editor seems to pull information from the topic for its display. Inside the two files Alias and Header, you've basically got a name, an ID and a link to the topic & optional bookmark. Not quite sure what you're trying to do, but it sound...
- Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:38 am
- Forum: Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Automatic ID to the topics
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2504
Re: Automatic ID to the topics
Look in the docs for "Automatically Generate Identifiers for All Topics".
- Mon Dec 02, 2019 5:54 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Unable to paste images from Flare output to Word
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1080
Re: Unable to paste images from Flare output to Word
Seems to depend on the HTML behind those images. In my project, (Side-Nav, minimal extra formatting) I can copy a page over to Word and all of my images arrive with the text. Just now, experimenting with the local weather forecasting site, I find that some images are copied with the bulk of the text...
- Fri Nov 29, 2019 12:16 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Topic Rating Plugin
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2138
Re: Topic Rating Plugin
Google analytics? Not exactly what you're asking for, but close enough to make it work.
There are a couple of threads here that describe how to go about it.
There are a couple of threads here that describe how to go about it.
- Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:13 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: One topic blackens text; others are fine
- Replies: 1
- Views: 881
Re: One topic blackens text; others are fine
I'd start by comparing both the topic properties and the TOC entry's properties to those of a well-behaved topic.
- Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:11 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: what is the namespace "www.madcaptware.com" for?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1361
Re: what is the namespace "www.madcaptware.com" for?
XML namespace definitions. Although those look badly broken. the "sof" part has been removed from madcapsoftware. Maybe a search and replace that got out of hand?
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 10:40 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Auto-generate topics under a category in another linked page
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1352
Re: Auto-generate topics under a category in another linked
It's usually easier to manage the links as a TOC than to build a page that contains, essentially, a hand-drawn table of contents. Another good option might be to use a RelTable. Be careful about putting the same link into a TOC twice. Tends to be rather disorienting to the reader. If necessary, a be...
- Thu Jun 20, 2019 9:49 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Date format in Output
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1472
Re: Date format in Output
How is a static date different from any other phrase, and why can't you use a variable?
But anyway, the solution lies in typing both versions, and wrapping them in conditions. It would look like This DateThat date in your project, but only one version would be used for either target.
But anyway, the solution lies in typing both versions, and wrapping them in conditions. It would look like This DateThat date in your project, but only one version would be used for either target.
- Thu Jun 20, 2019 6:17 am
- Forum: MadCap Lingo General Discussion
- Topic: How do you handle images?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2823
How do you handle images?
Possibly a bit out of scope for the forum, but I'm wondering... How do you handle images? I can see three options. Are there more? a) Recreate in the target language. b) Overlay with text that can be translated. (possibly using Capture) c) Cut the number of images drastically. I'm leaning toward c) ...