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I have installed 9.1 and don't have and significant problems, just a few Perforce bugs fixed.

I've just build a PDF output, and mine is fine. The indents are exactly as I expected.

I'm a Perforce user, not a Visual SourceSafe user, but have you tried selecting your \Contents folder, right clicking, then selecting Source Control > Refresh? Then do the same with the \Projects folder.

With Perforce, you always have to say "no" to building the cache, or Flare hangs completely ...

More questions, I'm afraid . . .

What version of Flare are you using?

When you change the margins, do you see the changed margins reflected in the page layout in the Flare editor before you save (you should), or are they not changed in the editor view at all?

Are you setting the margins in Page ...

Installed and initial impressions are good.

I'm one of the (very) frustrated Perforce users, and I can confirm the following:

Perforce operations within Flare are significantly faster, for example, automatic checkout of a file you are editing
Checkins from within Flare don't raise "method not ...

Just wondering . . .

This may be a very English-centric view, and if so I apologise. You are translating into all these European languages, and a couple of Chinese variants too. Do you not have a need for an English translation for your documentation?

Or is the issue just that you need an English ...

What sort of can't save? More details needed please . . .

Is there no save option available to you? Or do you get an error when you save and if so what error? Do you appear to save successfully, but when you reopen the page layout, the changes haven't been saved? Or is it just that the changes you ...

The problem with option 3 is that there are things in the Project folder that may need translation too.

For example, the .fltar file contains variables, some of which may need translation (one of my variables for my PDF output is the Document Title, as I have several rebranded versions, each with ...

I'd have a look at the actual XML of the problem table and see if there is anything strange going on. There may be some extra cells or rows of zero width/height that are messing things up.

This is quite possible, certainly if you converted from Word. I can't remember the details now, but I can ...

Not really an answer, but I've been wondering about this too. Here are my musings . . . .

I've just been involved in sending my first batch of Flare content to translators and receiving it back. This time round, we did it as we used to do it with the old Robohelp content, but I too have been ...

I've reported this against Flare 9, and had it acknowledged as a bug by MadCap. Whether it will get fixed with any urgency remains to be seen.

I've reported several new Flare 9/Perforce errors to MadCap support.

Response "Perforce is not natively supported by Flare. I have been doing some research on this and found that there is an issue with perforce integration and Flare V9. Our development team is aware of this and are currently ...

Here is a follow-up to this issue, in case it helps anyone else who finds themselves with two identical title pages in printed output.

About a week after I rather self-righteously responded to the original question, I found myself in exactly the same position, with two title pages. I couldn't for ...

I have found that the drop down text option is often disabled on the Insert menu if there is a bookmark included in the content you have selected for the drop down text.

If so, I just select as much as I can, then edit it to include the text I really want. Sometimes, I fix it by hacking the XML to ...

I have three web outputs, and I ended up using separate alias files for two reasons, but only one CSH file. As Dave says, the extra entries in the CSH don't matter, so long as the version of the help that doesn't include the associated topics doesn't try to use the corresponding identifiers.

Why ...

Couldn't you just set a condition to exclude the what's new chapter in the TOC.

Yes, I did and that worked fine for the target that included the What's New chapter. But that's the first "real" chapter, so it's also the chapter where I set the chapter number to 1, and reset the page number to ...

Thanks for the suggestions folks.

I guess I'm trying to implement as clean and maintainable a solution as possible, using all that Flare offers me, given that I'm still a newbie. Thinking about this a bit further, I may possibly have missed a trick using page layouts - they may be a bit more ...

Thanks for the nice comments. No chance of a "promotion" for me though. You have no idea how little I know.

Although I think you get promotions by making lots of posts. In my case, they are more questions than answers.

Solved - I'm not sure whether it is as flexible as I would like, but it's good enough for my requirements this time.

In my single TOC (used for PDF and WebHelp outputs, and for three different product variants, and two different brandings), for the sections that make up the main body of the ...

Well done for getting your head round auto-numbering. I've just had a look at my stylesheet, and I've got this for my chapter xrefs:

MadCap|xref.Chapter
{
text-decoration: none;
mc-format: 'Chapter {paranum}"{paratext}"';
}

This will show as, for example,

Chapter 6 "Generating Reports"

Note ...

Thanks. :-(

Easy when you know how, although I had to admit complete defeat in searching for it in Flare help. Searching for "insert group" gave me lots of hits for "insert" but I couldn't see any paired with group, "insert div" similarly gave me one or the other but not both. :-(

But that's ...

Could your topics start with a heading style that has set?

Because in this case, my actual text content is very similar in both cases. I can see why you may want to have different TOCs if you need quite different mixes of content, and I do that too on occasions.

But one of the benefits of single sourcing is to avoid the time wasted and errors introduced by ...

Really silly question, I know.

As a relative Flare newbie with lots still to learn, I've finally been brave enough to add the Flare 8 ribbon interface to the list of things I am trying to conquer.

But where is Format > Group , which is the only way I know to wrap a div tag of my choice round one ...

Is this a global link that you set up, or did someone else set it up on another machine? The reason I ask is because sometimes Flare stores links to files outside your immediate project as absolute file paths, rather than relative file paths.

This means that if someone else set up the link, the ...

Sorry, can't help, only to confirm that I have noticed a problem with MadCap|dropDownHead too.

I've not tried :hover, but I couldn't get :visited to work although MadCap|xref:visited does work as you would expect. I'll report a bug when I get a few minutes.