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Well spotted!

Have you tried doing this (taken from Flare's documentation):

Note: If you have problems with search working in HTML Help output, you might need to register a dll file called "RegisterItcc.bat." This may occur if you previously had a program such as RoboHelp installed and then uninstalled it. As a ...

Thanks Scott. I've used your script on a project and it worked perfectly, first time. Excellent! MadCap support told me that they are looking into providing this feature, so hopefully they will take a look at what you have done.

Thanks Dave. I will give it a try again tomorrow and see what happens. I've read a few of your posts on this and know you have got it to work, so I'm sure there's something quirky going on with the way we build our help.

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Does this work in HTML5 output? I am getting very erratic results - it works once when a Search Results page is in the sequence of pages and works all of the time in the TOC, unless the default.htm is in the sequence (which kills the sequence it would seem).

Yes, your first option would work...it's just that it means the 'master' English version has to be copied into separate projects for each language. Which isn't exactly a single source solution is it?

I think that is the only possible solution for the time being. I've asked MadCap about it, so ...

Thinking about it, that solution isn't going to work either - because the filenames of the Chinese topics have to remain identical to the filenames of their English equivalents so that hyperlinks/cross-refs are maintained. You can't have files with the same name in the same project.

What would be ...

Thanks I-tietz. I don't think we had considered having the chinese bits in added into the main, up-to-date English project. That might just work for now (as the foreign language projects get bigger, it will go beyond Flare's memory limit though).

Thanks Dave (again). I've not used the report feature before, so will look into it now.

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Does anyone know of an easy way to find out which topics in a project don't currently have identifiers assigned? I can see it is easy to find out which topics DO have them assigned, but not the other way around. Is there a simple way of doing this?

Thanks

Madcap tech support told me that there is a work-around to make sure topic titles are listed first in the search results. The work-around is an old SEO trick which would be penalised by Google nowadays...hidden text.

1. Create a new H style and set the Style>Block>Display to None.

2. In each topic ...

Hello everyone,

Does anyone know the criteria that is used to rank the search results in HTML5 help? I've asked MadCap support but the reply was a bit vague. I assumed Metadata Title would be most important, then Topic title, then Headings 1-n in order, then search term density in the meta ...

Damn, that's another downer on the Flare output then

Looks like another feature request is due.

Do feature requests ever get put into the product? I've made quite a few - any chance they will see the light of day?

Hello all

We would like to be able to search help by topic title only (as some industry-specific terms we have to use appear in far too many places). Is it possible to do this, bearing in mind we can't have a web/server hosted help system due to other factors?

Thanks for the reply. I agree with you - I don't see why the translators should get content that they are not translating. I think the best approach would be to create a project with just the stuff they translate, then when it comes back, create a TOC for it that also includes stuff from our English ...

No, the translators wouldn't translate anything in the English parts.

I'll try and make it clearer (because it is a mess!)

The 'Chinese' help consists of 2 guides in Chinese and 10+ guides that remain in English. The translation company want the entire project in English, and then they will ...

Hello all,

I've just had a chat with a client who is dealing with a translation company for their project. They have proposed a solution that, to me, sounds like the wrong approach. I wondered what you guys would think.

The situation is this - the client currently has a project in English that is ...

Thanks Flarenewbie...I'd already got it covered - it was just Flare playing up. But that should come in useful for other people on the forum.

Thanks Nick. I achieved what I wanted by adding the js to the Event property of each button in the end, but it is good to know I could just enter the lot in that box. Not that I know much js...I'll add it to my list of things to learn - Dreamweaver's next up.

Flare doesn't seem to like files with invalid XML - I've crashed it many, many times by having topics that contain invalid XML (imported by the way - not because I'm making mistakes!).

In the Skin editor, there is a Javascript box for entering JS. Am I right in thinking that for this box, you have to enter a complete script that references all of the buttons you are going to use? I expected it to allow me to set the js for each button individually in the box.

I've discovered ...

Thanks Dave, that has cleared that up for me. Creating custom buttons with javascript is the answer then - no problem.

So what I have now is:

Master Page Layout with Topic Toolbar Proxy included at the top. It is set to include these buttons:

Back Forward PreviousTopic NextTopic RemoveHighlight Print

Skin

No Toolbar options set.

The output I get is:

Print, Expand All, Next Topic, Previous Topic shown above ...

Okay, sorry...I got a bit confused. In Flare's help, there's a screen shot of the skin with Back and Forward (as in back to the previous topic you viewed, not back to the previous topic in the TOC structure)...it must be a custom option they have added.

It seems that I can add the buttons I need ...

This is for HTML5 by the way.