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What source control system are you using?

Your issue is likely to be related to your source control system. Is it Subversion, by any chance? If so, take a look at this thread (on which source control system to use - they all have their quirks and some more than others - but further down the thread ...

I'd certainly be interested in knowing how you get on with Subversion. I am close to the end of my tether with Perforce, but I don't have the time, inclination or enthusiasm to try anything else unless I know someone has been there before me, and that it's going to do what I need it to do.

I think ...

You need to set one/some combination of "padding", "margin" and "border", sorry not got time to check exactly what just now.

I have a very similar note class, and managed to get exactly what I wanted using these.

A few places to look for more help.

Mike Hamilton of MadCap did a fairly recent ...

I don't use Subversion - I use Perforce - but I may be able to offer you some pointers (or I may be talking nonsense). Perforce has trouble with renames too, especially if you move a folder, which is just multiple renames.

Did you do the move from within Flare, or directly from the Subversion ...

Thought I'd post this, as it may save another Perforce user from some angst.

I tried to create a review package and got the following error:

"Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application etc etc. Part URI cannot contain a fragment component".

Fortunately we have Platinum ...

If I could choose the source control system to use, I would strongly recommend that you go with one of the couple of options that MadCap claims to support directly, not anything that relies on the Miscrosoft SCCI API, and definitely not Perforce. It doesn't work. :-(

From my experience, if you have ...

Hi akohli,

Welcome to the forums and Flare!

You're not exactly off topic, just in the wrong post in the wrong forum. ;-)

I suggest you start a new topic post in the Web Based Output forum here: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewforum.php?f=9 . You'll be more likely to get a prompt answer that ...

Does it also die if you set the break as the value for the variable in a specific target file, rather than as part of the definition of the variable itself in the variable file?

Otherwise, how about two variables, one on each line, then put them in a snippet?

Thanks LTinker68. I too have come to the conclusion that Flare doesn't support a second class for an element. That means I'm going to revert to just my original span class, as much as I like the tidy solution of using a generic class.

Since I can't use the generic class for many of the "paragraphs ...

Do you actually want page numbers in your webhelp?

The suspect item may be on your master page, and is probably saying "BLANK" for the page number because it doesn't exist in web help. Are you using the same master page as for your printed document? You probably want a different one, or at least to ...

Don't know whether this will work, but since no-one more knowledgeable has replied, you could try.

Like everything else in Flare, the variables are stored in an XML file, so you could edit the file in a text editor, and insert the break where you want it. It may just work.

I did this to insert a ...

Thanks i-tietz! That's just what I wanted, although I have a couple of questions too.

This works for spans, and for paragraphs that are just my base <p> style. But for paragraphs that already have a class applied (for example, in my case, code fragments, bullets, lists, notes, table data), in my ...

I've had intermittent results with Flare's search and replace. Sometimes it doesn't appear to find things that are staring me in the face in the topic I have open in front of me. Then it works for a bit. I'm not sure if it's me, or something else, but it doesn't fill me with confidence.

I now use ...

No answers yet, but more questions, I'm afraid. I've relatively new to Flare, but these are just the things I'd look at if I'd tried everything else and was totally stumped (and wanted to avoid a reinstall).

Are you still having problems building all projects, or just a specific one?

What content ...

How can I apply a span style to a whole paragraph without defining a separate paragraph style?

I have a style (span.NeedsAttention) that I apply to parts of content that I need to revisit when I can get hold of the SME. It's red. This means that later on I can quickly see what needs sorting out ...

Will the page that already contains the first level header always be the first page in the chapter?

If so, in your page layout file that is associated with that chapter, just create a different first page, and leave the the level 1 header out of the page header. You do this by adding a new page to ...

Well, I may be talking complete nonsense, but I'm just trawling through the CSH information myself for the first time, to work out how to set it up. I've found something that may be relevant to you.

On page 88-89 of the Flare Context Sensitive Help Guide, section How to use an URL to open WebHelp ...

SInce no-one else with more knowledge has replied yet, I'll mention the things I would do to try to get to the bottom of this.

Firstly, do you by any chance have more than one header frame on that page in the page layout? Technically, you should be able to do this, and they should all be linked, so ...

Have you tried defining a <p> style for the image, applying that to the paragraph container, and setting the borders on that?

The <p> style I use for Notes, Warnings etc has a thick colored border down the left hand side, and that works in Word.

I ude the <img> style to define things about the ...

In Flare 7, you can't create a snippet that contains a table directly. As you say the option is greyed out. But you can create a snippet without the table then edit the snippet to add the table later on. It's just not quite as nice as being able to do it all in one go.

I have reported a bug. You ...

In your web skin, on the General tab, select Automatically Synchronize TOC. I think that wil do it.

Are you expecting the translators to update anything in the English project you send them? I would expect them to return you a separate French project, from which you can build your French outputs and a separate Chinese project, from which you can build your Chinese outputs. I would expect the ...

Thank you so much Nita and Kellie.

I'm still in the act of trying things out before I set up my first real project very soon. I've already gone partly down the route you suggest by naming the items I have identified as global so far with names that start with "GLOBAL". Like you both, I like things ...

I asked the nice people at MadCap support whether there was a way to specify auto-created bookmarks in Flare as part of the style, and they have raised a feature request on my behalf. You may like to submit a feature request too, to add weight to the cause.

Techwriter31

I've just read this with interest. I'm in the act of setting up our Flare environment for a move to Flare. Like you I have identified some global content (conditions, variables, stylesheets etc), but I was planning to put all that in a global project, then use global project linking to ...