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Hi Choccie Muffin,
I couldn't find any earlier, so I've already pinged support.
The knowledge base only has details of the new features (most of which are irrelevant to me) and no updated release notes.

I'm sure many of us want to check whether any of the outstanding bugs have been fixed before we ...

One thing that also affects the ranking of a topic in the search results is the number of links there are to that topic.

I discovered this recently, when trying to work out why a topic was not appearing at the top of the search results, despite having the search term in the title and multiple ...

Very happy to be able to help!

Hi Nivanova,
As far as I know, it is not possible to do a multiple selection of rows scattered throughout a table. You could submit a feature request (https://www.madcapsoftware.com/feedback/featurerequest.aspx) to see if the Ctrl key could be adapted to do this.

However, what might make things ...

Hi Shoria,
You could use the Find and Replace in Files tool.
Enter "MadCap:relatedTopics" in the Find field and enable the Find in source code option. Then hit Find All .
You'll then see all the topics that contain this tag in the Find Results tab.

In the toolbar of the Find Results tab, you then ...

Hi Udo,
Sorry. I hadn't seen your reply.
I can't replicate what you're seeing, I'm afraid and I can't think what else could be causing this.
I guess it's worth contacting support to see if they can reproduce it or advise.
Regards,
Feebeegeebee

Hi Yonit,
I'm not sure whether this webinar on Interactive Wizards might be useful:
https://www.madcapsoftware.com/webinars/interactive-wizards-madcap-flare/

It covers creating a kind of click through tool, to guide users through a process.
Clicking on one option narrows down the set of choices ...

I've just encountered this bug too. I have a whole lot of options that can be configured and I wanted to link to bookmarks in another topic, so that users could see how each option gets saved in its own section in an output file from our software.
All bookmark links just go to the same place at the ...

Hi Udo,
Sorry for the delayed reply. I have been away.
I'm scratching my head at this...

Have you done the usual steps of:
1. Closing Flare.
2. Browsing to the folder with your Flare project using Windows Explorer.
3. Deleting the Analyzer and Output folder (or moving the Output folder to a ...

Hi Udo,
Firstly, can you see the Builds window or is it not shown at all? If you can see the header, but that's all, you may have somehow set the window to Auto Hide .

Secondly, to launch your output automatically when the build finishes, select Tools > Options (or whatever the Ribbon equivalent is ...

This has now been reproduced by Madcap.

Support have passed it onto the Development team as issue #151650.
Will post any further update here...

Feebeegeebee

Not super familiar with the Linux VM use case, but in general, whenever I run into these types of issues it's something to do with the way the server is caching files.

Good idea, but I've been completely blowing away the content on the Linux machine, before replacing it each time and still the ...

Have you checked in your Primary Target, in the Skin tab, that you have your Topic Toolbar Skin specified (rather than a value of (default)??

Excellent.
Glad to be able to help.
Feebeegeebee

Thanks Psider.
I have tried looking at that. I thought it might be the directory name generated by Flare, as that is mixed upper/lower case, but changing that made no difference.
I will delve deeper into which files Flare is using.
The odd thing is that it's not all the micro content items that I've ...

Hi,
I have been adding a few initial Micro Content items to my main help project.
Apart from one bug that I have already raised with Madcap, it seems to work fine on my Windows machine and on our Apache webservers.

However, I've been testing the output on a Linux VM, by running our software and ...

One item of weirdness they noticed is that the default toolbar "Previous topic/Next topic" buttons do not work from Ubuntu/Chrome, but on Windows, they do exactly what they should.

Not entirely sure, but as Choccie Muffin says, inspect the source and check what's associated with those buttons ...

How do I change this? Ideally I'd just like a straight list with no headings to break up the entries.

Hi,
If you're using an Index proxy:
Right-click on it in the XML Editor and select Edit Index Proxy...
In the Index Proxy dialog, click on the Generate Headings option, specify No and click OK ...

Have now also discovered a bug in Micro Content.

If you create micro content from an existing topic and then within the Micro Content editor select the Response and right-click.
You get the option to Remove Link/Convert to Text .
When you select it, Flare raises an exception.
The response ...

I'm liking the micro-content thing so far. But, I'm already thinking of ways to improve it.

For example, the automatic id that you get when you use "Create Micro Content" from the Home ribbon. I'd like a way to provide a relevant term for the id, rather than it just being "microcontent1 ...

Thank you, Msquared for your post!

I just moved to a new laptop, fired up my main Flare project in Flare and nearly freaked when I saw this error message!
Your advice definitely did the trick. Phew! Thank you!

I knew I'd seen a thread on issues with SVG files being caused by the Java version.
Does this post shed any light?

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18809&hilit=svg#p107624

Regards,
Feebeegeebee

Incredibly, it adds a "Powered by MadCap Software" logo to your output.
I'm so glad they added that feature, it was top of my wish list.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I wish I'd thought of requesting that earlier!
Forget the bug fixes, we all need the option to include a free ad for Madcap in ...

What does the "Powered by MadCap Software" check box do on the advanced tab of a target? I looked through the documentation but could not find anything about it.

You're right. There's nothing in the help. It's not listed amongst the settings in the "Editing Target Settings" topic.
Bizarre ...

Just like Adobe, Madcap adds a few little features to justify a new version number, while not attending to long-standing fundamental bugs. Perhaps Madcap should spend less on marketing and fancy international conferences, and more on competent developers willing to get their hands dirty.

Totally ...