MadCap Software Forums

Hi Kath,

I'm not sure if you're still experiencing this problem but, if you are, would you mind giving some examples for me please?
I'm not quite clear on what you're asking with different models and such.
Our company has multiple products with lots of variations between them all so I wonder if I ...

Hi,

Firstly, apologies if this has been covered elsewhere -- I don't know what I should be searching for to solve my dilemma! :?

I am doing a maintenance manual, but part of this requires having 2 things:
1. A schedule matrix of what items need scheduling and whether they are done daily, monthly ...

Hi,

I have a query for what to do with hyperlinks in print format (PDF, more specifically).

Generally I am using cross-references throughout my project and then I have these converted to a cross-reference with a page number for the print manual. However, I have a few hyperlinks which I added ...

Thanks for the help - I just went looking for how to do this and came across this post.
Just got mine working (very exciting!). I didn't have any problems getting the folder to open when you first open the webhelp though..
Are there any particular circumstances you have set up?
I have my startup ...

Brilliant answers - thank you.
I like that this is so very straightforward. I do have a few conditions in my topic because I have snippet conditions and I only want it indexing those particular conditions in a snippet. I'm assuming that would work even though I haven't tried it yet!

I also found ...

Hi,

I've been creating an index for one of my manuals at the moment (i.e., for one TOC) but I'm not clear on how I'm supposed to index multiple manuals in one project (i.e., lots of different TOCs).

For example, you use one index pane and that contains all the entries. Does Flare only take the ...

I seem to have solved my own problem and learnt something about Flare at the same time.
To share my solution..

I didn't realise that I had accidentally applied chapter breaks to all the sub-pages in the third section.
It would appear that for the miniTOC it is for any topics in that 'chapter ...

Hi,

I have had a read through many of the miniTOC posts but haven't found anything to answer my problem as yet.
I have a series of topics like this in my TOC:

Topic 1
Content 1
Content 1
Content 1

Topic 2
Content 2
Content 2
Content 2

Topic 3
Content 3
Content 3
Content 3

The problem ...

Thanks Dave.
Unfortunately Flare doesn't seem to see each item as consecutive but rather, just a bunch of items. I haven't yet been able to get it to autonumber.
Will keep trying though!

Thanks very much -- you both answered my question perfectly!

Hi,

I have a query about using the SeeLink Xref.
I would like to use this style in many places but, the 'See' part of 'See '{paratext}' always comes up as a hyperlink too (because it's part of the Xref). Is there a way to make the 'see' part not a hyperlink but to only have the {paratext} as the ...

haha, thanks.
I do use the internal editor inside Flare -- does Notepad++ trump this? If so, why's that?

I'm new to css coding (have been trying to learn it to use Flare better) so it's all much of a muchness to me at the moment..

Thanks for your comment Amber!

Unfortunately I'm still not sure which of the AutoFit Behaviour settings to pick.. I don't want the table to only be matching the contents because if I have one table with less words, the table will be smaller. I tried to select that option and then changed my styles ...

Hi,

I have to use many tables for my manuals but they vary in width depending on what I'm trying to show with them. I.e., some have a picture that needs to display next to the table so it's smaller etc.

The problem is that I clearly haven't got a grasp on table widths.. When I generate my table ...

Hi Barb,

I don't really know why that's happening but..
I made a change in Flare as author, sent it to reviewer and I could still see the changes.

So I would say that it does work and there's another issue causing your problem. Sorry I can't help more with what it is!

I did notice that in Review ...

A note about table stylesheets: If you make edits to column widths after inserting the table to a topic, the column widths do not change (at least in Flare V8 it doesn't). You have to go into the Text Editor and delete the previous column widths from the source code (in this example, "style=width ...

Sounds great. I shall proceed with snippet conditions.. full steam ahead!

Thank you!

You can do this with snippet conditions. Create a snippet with a conditions for your various requirements, place it in a topic, then set the snippet condition you want on the topic. (Topic Properties, Snippet Conditions tab).

Thank you thank you thank you! :D
I have spent two weeks trying to ...

Hi,

I have recently been trying to use Mini-TOCs to save me time typing out what appears in the TOC. Very cool feature..
However, I would like to autonumber some of my Mini-TOCs (the ones that are actually procedures but each step is a different page).

Essentially, I would like it to show the ...

Hi,

I've been hunting all over the forum and checked the conditioning white paper but haven't worked out if the following is possible:
I have a Procedures manual to list all the procedures for a particular product. There are some parts of the product that are very similar but have slight ...

Thanks Nita.
I think it was still showing when I put the image into Flare but unfortunately I now can't get it to replicate the issue. Very odd seeing as I've had it occur several times over the course of a month.
If it happens again I will try as you said

Thanks,
Avril

Hi,

I am using the text rectangle tool and would like to just have the text with no background or rectangle border.
I made the background transparent and I set the 'line' width to 0.

It does make my background transparent but it won't remove the rectangle border..it leaves a thin 1px grey border ...

Thanks very much for the responses!
Unfortunately I didn't have the 'notify me when a reply is posted' so didn't realise you'd replied..
However, what you said it still helpful for me now.

Thanks!

I am also having the same problem; I cannot get my dropdown head (or hotspot) to work with autonumbering.
I changed my 'hotspot' to have autonumbering of {n+} which works fine and dandy in the editor. However, as soon as I try to 'preview' this, the numbers disappear. If I type them in manually they ...

Hi,

I am just starting to learn how to get tablestyles working, but I'm having a slight issue with header rows.
I have a 2 col x 3 rows table, with the top row being a header.
However, my header won't 'join' the two cells together but instead leaves a space between the cells.
I have selected ...