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by Psider
Thu Feb 27, 2025 3:36 pm
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Part Title Pages and TOC Issues in Flare
Replies: 2
Views: 18809

Re: Part Title Pages and TOC Issues in Flare

Try setting the mc-heading-level property on your custom style. e.g. set it to 1 if you want it to be a top level heading. I think that will make it appear in the TOC.
by Psider
Thu Feb 27, 2025 3:24 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Build Webhelp/HTML5 output without search
Replies: 9
Views: 22095

Re: Build Webhelp/HTML5 output without search

You could try unticking the "Include topic when full-text search database is generated" checkbox to see if that speeds up the generation.

You can do it for all files by opening the File List tab (View > File List), selecting all topics then right-clicking and selecting Properties. I haven't tried ...
by Psider
Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:30 pm
Forum: Source Control
Topic: Flare 12 "Retrieving source control status" (git) hangs
Replies: 7
Views: 39506

Re: Flare 12 "Retrieving source control status" (git) hangs

I thought I'd add to this. Using TFS GIT, some projects worked fine and others would be extremely slow to check the status, and take 20+ minutes to commit a single change.

I found that the projects that were slow didn't have a [remote "origin"] fetch = +refs/xxxx section in the config file ...
by Psider
Tue Feb 11, 2025 3:54 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Global image use (outside the project)
Replies: 2
Views: 12547

Re: Global image use (outside the project)

The closest match to what I think you are asking would be External Resources, but I personally would only use this solution for resources maintained by other teams. https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2024r2/Content/Flare/Project-Management/External-Resources/External-Resources.htm

Global Project ...
by Psider
Sun Feb 09, 2025 7:34 pm
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: adding a text header to the lefthand sidebar menu
Replies: 2
Views: 12612

Re: adding a text header to the lefthand sidebar menu

Is it SideNav? I don't think there's any way in the skin editor, but you could potentially use CSS to insert text before the actual TOC code.

I tried this in a test project, so perhaps try in a copy of your project to see if it will work.

I used the browser developer tools to find the relevant ...
by Psider
Sun Feb 09, 2025 4:37 pm
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Removing inline formatting
Replies: 3
Views: 13721

Re: Removing inline formatting

The missing bit is that in "Replace/Action" section you need to select "remove inline formatting" from the dropdown and re-specify the inline formatting you want to replace.

Once you do that, you'll see the yellow preview text has a line through the formatting to remove.

This makes sense after you ...
by Psider
Thu Feb 06, 2025 4:19 pm
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Is it possible to set a div to always contain a particular paragraph style?
Replies: 2
Views: 16278

Re: Is it possible to set a div to always contain a particular paragraph style?

I think that will style the p following the div, not the p inside the div.

What you could do is set up each div as a snippet, then after you insert the snippet, right-click on it and select Convert to text

Or, you could use a complex selector, to style the first paragraph

It would look something ...
by Psider
Thu Feb 06, 2025 3:57 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Seeking to Up my Game
Replies: 4
Views: 19932

Re: Seeking to Up my Game

I often see questions in the forums and try out the functionality they are trying or asking about. And thinking about different ways to achieve the same or similar.

Being actively curious is probably the biggest thing. :)
by Psider
Wed Jan 29, 2025 4:29 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Different location for search bar on landing page and internal pages
Replies: 3
Views: 19669

Re: Different location for search bar on landing page and internal pages

I did a quick test and the All Files text displays when I preview, but not when I view the generated output. Check if that is the case for you.
by Psider
Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:50 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: mini-TOC levels are inconsistent
Replies: 3
Views: 22055

Re: mini-TOC levels are inconsistent

This could be because the mini-toc proxy works differently between print and online outputs.

The lt;dr is that for print, the toc depth represents the number of heading levels from the heading immediately before the mini-toc proxy. For online the number represents the number of levels below the ...
by Psider
Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:30 pm
Forum: Source Control
Topic: Changing the remote respository URL
Replies: 2
Views: 24099

Re: Changing the remote respository URL

Thanks for that. We went ahead with it and it seems to have worked fine. At least, nothing has blown up so far. :)

And yes, from our view, it was just a change to the root URL and otherwise the repo was identical.

I can also confirm that some changes to the local repo pushed successfully after the ...
by Psider
Tue Jan 21, 2025 5:52 pm
Forum: Source Control
Topic: Changing the remote respository URL
Replies: 2
Views: 24099

Changing the remote respository URL

Hi All,

We're using git, and I've just been advised the remote repository URL is changing slightly.

The MadCap Flare help doesn't mention changing the URL, but I noticed that if I open Source Control > Manage Remotes, if I make a small change in the Remote Repository field then the New button ...
by Psider
Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:45 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Surface or Export Alt Text for Images
Replies: 2
Views: 14376

Re: Surface or Export Alt Text for Images

In case it didn't come through, the thought experiment for inline images should have spaces between the apostrophes (so there are correct spaces around the inserted attribute value.

content: '<space char>' & attr(alt) & '<space char>';
by Psider
Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:43 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Surface or Export Alt Text for Images
Replies: 2
Views: 14376

Re: Surface or Export Alt Text for Images

Perhaps you could you ::before and the content property to display the alt text. The content property is interesting because you can use it to display attribute values as well as text strings.

To try it out, you need to set up something like the following in your stylesheet:

img::before {
display ...
by Psider
Wed Jan 15, 2025 4:00 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Reminder when upgrading
Replies: 1
Views: 16661

Re: Reminder when upgrading

Oh no! Sending hugs in your general direction!
by Psider
Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:55 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Breadcrumb link style
Replies: 2
Views: 16465

Re: Breadcrumb link style

There should be a special MadCap breadcrumb class under the "a" element in the stylesheet. Try changing the font size there.
by Psider
Sun Jan 05, 2025 4:44 pm
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Build failed: Access to the path: C:\My Projects...denied.
Replies: 11
Views: 26032

Re: Build failed: Access to the path: C:\My Projects...denied.

If your organisation has source control, see if you can use that. That way every time you commit/check-in, your work is saved centrally so it doesn't matter where the projects are located. The reason I only recommend using source control if your organisation already has it, is so you can have ...
by Psider
Tue Dec 10, 2024 9:19 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: PDF references security issue
Replies: 3
Views: 14704

Re: PDF references security issue

What's the exact message they're getting? That might help us determine what's happening.

I do know one common problem is if you link to a pdf on a network server and the user doesn't have access to that server or to the specific folder.
by Psider
Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:16 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Enabling Fonts in Navigation Pane (Style.css)
Replies: 8
Views: 20714

Re: Enabling Fonts in Navigation Pane (Style.css)

Have you followed all the steps in the help for embedding fonts? There are specific steps for tripane as well as the usual manual stylesheet changes.
https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... -Fonts.htm
by Psider
Tue Nov 12, 2024 4:15 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Server side search and the disappearing search filters
Replies: 2
Views: 15361

Re: Server side search and the disappearing search filters

The "End User Search Features Per Output Type" topic in the help says search filters should work for server-based output.

Has help been published to that location previously? If so, perhaps server-side caching of old content is the problem? See if you can get the server administrator to clear the ...
by Psider
Mon Nov 11, 2024 5:45 pm
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Add a "Download as PDF/Print Page" Button to Web Output?
Replies: 2
Views: 15880

Re: Add a "Download as PDF/Print Page" Button to Web Output?

Assuming you're using side nav or top nav, you'll need to add a topic toolbar, probably to the template page so that it appears in all topics. If you don't want it in all topics, you can add the topic toolbar to individual topics as needed.

https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2024/Content/Flare ...
by Psider
Mon Oct 28, 2024 4:45 pm
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Extra PDF Page Inserted
Replies: 5
Views: 22798

Re: Extra PDF Page Inserted

MadCap support have confirmed that this is not a bug and that concept tags must be inserted inside regular html elements inside the body element. That is, inside p, h1-h9, li, div etc tags.

I've asked they include this information in the help, although I realise this problem will likely only occur ...
by Psider
Mon Oct 21, 2024 4:31 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Snippet Conditions/Variables - best practices
Replies: 2
Views: 3602

Re: Snippet Conditions/Variables - best practices

Thanks for that. I think it must have been the snippet conditions I was thinking of. :)
by Psider
Sun Oct 20, 2024 9:20 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Snippet Conditions/Variables - best practices
Replies: 2
Views: 3602

Snippet Conditions/Variables - best practices

Hi All,

I'm hoping to use your collective memory to track down an old post.

I seem to remember reading, in the dim, dark past, something about ensuring you set up your snippet conditions, or snippet variables, as separate sets to ensure they are never used outside snippets. But I can't remember ...
by Psider
Tue Oct 15, 2024 3:48 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Big space on top in PDF
Replies: 6
Views: 22086

Re: Big space on top in PDF

Perhaps check your stylesheet for a div class containing the word "breadcrumb" that has a large padding-top or margin-top set for the print medium?