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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...

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...

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...

Update: The position has been filled.

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...

Haven't actually tried it, but wouldn't that just be a CSS clip? Copying from the W3 schools example:

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...

That would normally be done by the developers. On the documentation side, you can't do much beyond specify which topic is to open.

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...

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...

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...

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".

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.

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...

Two guesses: The file is open in some editor that has a lock on it. Someone changed permissions on that folder.

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...

Look in the docs for "Automatically Generate Identifiers for All Topics".

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...

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.

I'd start by comparing both the topic properties and the TOC entry's properties to those of a well-behaved topic.

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?

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...

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.

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) ...

Is it a matter of telling Lingo or telling your translator?
In either case, the answer probably involves wrapping the term in a span that you create to say "Don't translate what's in here!"