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We are planning to migrate the software help from CHM to HTML5. Is there a way in MadCap to configure the content output so that assigned help ids for CSH for the program developer to be automatically included in the HTML label?

We are using the most current MC 2020. We are Looking for a possibility to implement MicroContent with CHM Output. We ve the Impression that it is possible only for HTML5. Right?

We are using links from one chm to a 2nd one. Both are located after installation in the same folder. The links are always from chm1 to chm2. Within a chm1 topic there can be on different texts different links to different topics in chm2 file. The external chm2 file is once imported and is located i...

[quote="AlexFox"]Any particular reason you aren't using Capture?[/quote] No particular reason. We are using it. But as we can use MSpaint we want to calrify when such a program is added to this popup dialog. We also see our application "TAA" in the popup which is no image process...

[quote="dtmenges"]I know that I can edit files with Photoshop (.png, tif, etc) and Illustrator(.eps) but I don' know how those are assigned either. They just magically appear in that shortcut menu. If you are using source control, you have to manually check them out and then in before an e...

Are there any other programs like paint which can be used to edit images. How ?
We have a taa which is part of our software but do not know how this was assigned.

Has anyone experience of working with Madcap and SAP? if yes just leave me a note "SAP YES" by mail. I will contact you as soon as possible.
Uwe
uwe.meister@netzsch.com

Background : A project was merged with another project and now there exist many merged topics with missing image files.
Is there a way to get a summary of topics with missing images?

I have a mysterious merging of index (tab index) in a chm project "A" from a completely different project "B". I want to remove the garbage "B" index from the index list in project "A" but the garbage "B" index is not in the list of project "A&q...

In my Master Project "A" I want to merge the index from project "B". I followed the MC-help with toc in A. I introduced a book item in "A" named "merged_b". Its property link is select Flare project and target (for runtime). I select the "B" project ...

The 'Show changes' in 'Review' is now frequently present in various Topics. I want to have it generally unchecked. Where can I reset it globally to 'unchecked' ?

We are using madcap 12. The Translation tool for the Software is passolo 2016. If in the language ressource a dialogue element such as e.g. 'Cancel' is decided to be changed to 'Exit' then the context sensitive topic text must be changed manually. Can this be automatized ?Is it possible to reference...

In a Topictext a Hyperlink can be inserted (cntrl +K) which can be set to jump to an external HTML-help file. This can be imported from exisitng. This imported chm can be taken from else where. The chm is copied to the Project Folder of the Primary master source chm. How is the imported chm synchron...

Madcap 11
Building chm.
Publish.
Mclog is created in the published Directory.
Is there a way to avoid this ?

We imported projects from RoboHelp5 to MadCape 7. We create chm-help. In the RH5 projects we had header and footer line. Now the header should be removed using MC7. Must we delete the header line(s) individually in each topic or do we have a chance to remove them at one time? Uwe We succeeded in re...

i-tietz wrote:Are header and footer part of each topic or part of the masterpage?

We imported from RoboHelp 5 where we created header and footer as parts of each topic. IN RH5 no masterpage was created and in McFlare 7 the masterpage is empty.

We imported projects from RoboHelp5 to MadCape 7. We create chm-help. In the RH5 projects we had header and footer line.
Now the header should be removed using MC7. Must we delete the header line(s) individually in each topic or do we have a chance to remove them at one time?

Uwe

Thanks. Quite easy. Saved a lot of time.

For 10 years we used the same names for the chms but for new software generation it was decided to rename them. Within a chm-project there are numerous topics with interfile links with old adresses. Is there a possibility in MadCape 7 to get an overview of links in topics? Is there an easy possibilt...

The answers are all deeply appreciated. We found the temp HHP file. T H A N K S! it is of great help ! 2 additional questions: 1. In the FLALI file the path to the topic.htm is with "Content" Example : <Map Name="English" Link="/Content/languageswitch/English.htm" /> In...

Is the ALIAS file the file with the suffix flali ? Is it correct that the hhp file does not exist anymore compared to RoboHelp ?

One programmer based the CSH logic for the CHMs for the applications in the RHelp-Project on the HHP file. It was taken to read the names of the files in the [ALIAS] and [MAP] sections. The HHP file is as far as I can see no longer existent in Madcape 7. Is it somewhere hidden or is there a way that...

Is it possible to add the project path with name, e.g. "C:\Programme\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare V7\Flare.app\" "D:\60_HILFE\de\automaton\automaton.flprj" to the command line to start with the defined project? We tried but did not suceed. Is it not foreseen or is there a defined...

Thanks, now we are sure. That's what we assumed. But really, if we type in the path as shown in the attachement and there is no obvious hint for this behavior an untrained user is confused because she /he does not find the chms where she/he looks for.
OK, we ll use publish options.

[attachment=0]outputfolder.JPG[/attachment] We intend to compile our chms for testing into that directory where our application is started after chm compiling. see our attachement. After build the chm is located not in the defined path. MadCap creates automatically subfolder \output\HTML Help where ...