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You are quite correct - you will definitely need the .flprj file in source control. Sorry I didn't think to mention that.

You probably don't want /Project/Users or /Project/Reports though.

I use nested drop-downs in WebHelp (often three of four levels), and I'm happy with the results. My overall requirements aren't that complex, though. All mine are closed initially and I don't think I've done anything specific to ensure that.

There are a couple of issues with getting them to expand ...

I too use subfolders. I have far too many images to want them all in a flat structure. They should work as expected. But because of my naming conventions, I don't think I have any images where the same name appears in the top level images folder and also in a subfolder. And, I don't use Capture for ...

That's one of these things many people don't seem to know about. I only discovered it when someone in support told me about it, so with the tech author's "gift" of remembering what it was like before I knew something, I wondered if that was what was tripping you up too.

I'd be a bit suspicious ...

4000 is going to take some time however you look at it. :-(

You do know about the folder/file view in Content Explorer, which shows folders in one window and files in another (make sure the first two icons in the Content Explorer window are both selected - to show folders and files). Then, in the ...

So, coming back to your temporary files . . .

Flare's folder structure does take a bit of getting used to, I agree.

If you build a target <targetname>, you should find everything you require for that target below C:ProjectName\Output\<yourname>\<targetname>. This applies for any sort of target. So ...

The other option is to have one mega project and put everything in there.

I've kind of done this too, as another option for some of my content. But that gets quite messy too. I allocated each distinct item a two character identifier, and used that to split content. So I have /Content/AA, /Content ...

Duh! What use is the feature then?

You won't find that particular issue with GPL, but you will find lots of other issues - I've got an outstanding support call out at present. I'm hoping Madcap will help me with a workflow that works for me, but I'm concerned that the general level of bugginess ...

Depending on your source control system, you may be able to specify a list of files that are ignored at checkin.

We use Perforce, and my ignore list looks like this. Yours may look slightly different for another tool, but these are the files you probably want to include in the ignore list ...

Release almost out of the door, so I have a day or two to play with things I've not had time to sort before. :-)

One thing is to try Flare 10's Perforce support. But I've fallen at the first hurdle. It seems that I can only bind a project if I am using a depot that uses streams, and then only if I ...

Yes, everything below /Output can be deleted with no ill effects. These files are regenerated when you build the outputs.

CAVEAT! I may be misrepresenting Flare's capabilities here.

I'm getting the bit about being limited to one PC from the fact that MadCap's own help says the info is stored in the registry, and from my own observations yesterday while doing some limited experiments.

I have not yet confirmed this ...

After a bit of experimentation, these seem to be the limitations of Flare's External Files feature.

You can only map whole folders to a location in or below /Contents. if you want to put an external file somewhere else, for example, if it's a Variables file which needs to be below /Project, you can ...

So, in a project environment with external files and several authors, someone makes some changes to a global file and wants to propagate it to every project that uses that file. They will have no way of knowing what other projects have used those external files. And the changes won't be picked up by ...

Submit a feature request for the ability to define shortcut keys. I have dozens I use every day in Word for applying styles and I do miss them for Flare. I think that was the first feature request I submitted back when I started with Flare 7. Obviously MadCap don't think it's that important.

Like ...

I'm a bit disappointed too with the limitations and general bugginess of both GPL and External files, and I would agree that MadCap don't seem to understand the requirements here at all. GPL Sync is so buggy it needs be done manually, and External Files sync is only manual, although it did seem to ...

GPL has exactly the same problem - it stores both the relative AND absolute file names of each linked file. :-(

Fortunately I realised very early on in my Flare journey that absolute file names were used, and we use branches too, so we had the same problem. I have set up all my projects so that the ...

Thank you! I don't do HTML5 help yet - we're still on WebHelp here because we need to support older browsers for some of our products. But the developers are keen to move on too, so hopefully it won't be too long before I need to read and digest this.

You may have trouble creating snippets that include tables, although a snippet can include a complete table, you just can't create it directly for some reason. You will have to create the snippet, then add the table.

What you can't do, I'm afraid is create a snippet that just contains some rows ...

That's exactly what I said @ChoccieMuffin - I just didn't get round to saying it until the third paragraph.

In your TOC, right click on each topic that is the start of a chapter and on the Printed Output tab, set Break Type to Chapter Break. On the Auto Numbers tab, set the Chapter Number to increment for each chapter, except for the first, which you can set to "Reset to" 1. Or whatever numbering scheme ...

Are you saying you want the heading entries in the table of contents to be numbered, but you don't want any heading numbering in the main body of the document? Or are you saying you want heading numbers but you want them to be auto-generated and don't want to have to maintain them manually?

If it's ...

I have already raised a feature request for there to be an implicit condition of "Untagged" or similar, which would allow you to explicitly include/exclude everything that doesn't have any condition applied to it at all. That sounds like it would give you what you want. So perhaps you could join me ...

If the imported files are kept in source control, then at least if one person runs the import correctly, then everyone will get the correct files.

I was hoping (rather naively, perhaps) that if I could set GPL up in the way it reads as if it should work, then the latest versions of the global ...

Ideally, I'd like this to be able to work reliably as part of my auto-build. My experiences so far are that it won't, even if we ignore the source control date issue (which I think you'd mentioned before, and I was aware of and hence looking out for).

However, I'm really keen not to store a ...