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For Menu proxies and accordion-style navigation, I can probably answer before I test: I bet it won't work. Flare dynamically creates the menu items at runtime and I think the same with Side and TopNav. The CSS would probably work to hide it, but I doubt the script could tell Flare to show a specific ...

Here's a scenario where I'm thinking to use it. I have a working prototype if you'd like it.

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I produce internal and external versions of our help, and my internal audience wants a quick way to see the differences between the two versions. They don't want to open another PDF or another ...

The goal is to resize the topic popup window as shown in the attached image.
popups.png

However, I'd like to use the default window size for topics and a different size for definition popups (bottom image). That's what I'm unable to accomplish because there's no where to say "use this ...

Fiona, I know this response is late, but I still wanted to share. I have a toggler next to a Search Bar Proxy. Is this similar to what you were wanting?
search-dropdown.gif

Here's how I did it.
1. Create a snippet for the search bar proxy.
2. Create the layout that you want.
3. Create a Name for ...

Thanks for the info. Agreed. It's something I didn't think about, but it makes total sense.

Instead of auto-focusing, I modified the script to offer my users the choice to enable or disable search bar auto-focus; then their preference is stored in LocalStorage. I also included a snippet:
Enabling ...

Interesting, and thanks for the info, NorthEast. Maybe I shouldn't use Google as a model.

Thanks for this bit! It was exactly what I was looking to do and works great.

Why did you use another editor's find/replace instead of Flare's?

UPDATE 21 June 2024:
Disregard my original post below. The error is not related to the Alias file as I thought. I finally found the Unicode characters in a .txt file in my project (manually, I might add, but that time also permitted me to clean up a little here and there along the way). The Unicode ...

I recently had an issue with my builds failing because of the dreaded Surrogate Pair error message. Thought I would offer my scenario in hopes it may help others too down the road.

During project comparison (the restored commit vs. the one that would fail), I found a solution by happenstance, and I ...

I know this is an older thread, but I still wanted to pass along a tip if you are having trouble with videos made in Camtasia Studio playing in Flare output.

When you export the MP4, select Use GPU Encoding . After I did that, Flare doesn't have an issue playing the video in HTML5 output ...

This is potentially why I've been having CORS issues. This CORS thing I think is a horrible invention.
Our in-house server includes CORS in the server header responses, so it's difficult for us to share docs (employee to employee) from a common HTML5 output. Half the time it thinks subfolders are ...

Wow... this is odd.... so, if I include HTML in CSS the bar shows. If I remove html, the entire frame is gray like the body background.

html,
body /* Specifies the default styling for the page and body elements on desktops and laptops. */
{
font-family: var(--key_base_font_family);
font-size ...

Why do these bars show up on every frame I add to a Page Layout?

I wanted to give my users an option to go "old school" if they want with a tripane skin. I have all skins in my project and they're set to be responsive. However, when I build a TopNav and click the SelectSkin button, only TopNav and SideNav skins show up. Why doesn't the Tripane skin show as an ...

@Vibeke, I never thought to edit the TOC at the code level like this. I'm always hesitant to change Flare's code. I will try this as a test though. Thanks to you and Dave for sharing!

Jim

When I publish from Flare to Central, something strange happens to my manifest reference in theTemplatePage. After I publish, my site seems to be referencing a MadCap default manifest file.

I'd like more insight into the Central server, but I doubt that happens. Has anyone else had manifest.json ...

I use conditions as well for things like this. I have multiple glossaries and each term is conditioned. Then you include or exclude terms.

Jim

RFox, you may want to double check your settings under Icon and Size. These two settings can be confusing, and there's not much documentation around these two.

I've had a situation where I couldn't see my new buttons either, and one or both of these settings were off. I'd have to go back through ...

Update: My boss mentioned Flare had a hiccup during a Find/Replace session she was working on. I'm thinking that might be the culprit... a Find/Replace user request would definitely have to invoke a script in Flare, right? I've submitted a question to MadCap.

Indeed, I was inaccurate in my ...

FrankyT, years later.... I just came across this in one of our projects today!

I do not process any source Flare files with scripts, not to mention Python (which I know nothing about).

I came across this issue because I was attempting to apply a condition to the snippet and Flare acted like it ...

Yes, I've done this. But I want to resize the default Flare size. Everything I've tried doesn't work.

Example 3: I've also used SmartMenus to create my own menu using the XML TOC I create in Flare. This is a really nice tool! If you use SmartMenus to create your Flare menu, you can position it where you'd like!

I've had success using a snippet and JavaScript.
Example 1: I create a container for the menu in a snippet. Then I use JavaScript to append the sidenav-container to the snippet container. This way, you can relocate the sidenav to anywhere on the page that you want and access it with a button (e.g ...

Hi. I'd like to use additional variables in the SearchProxy like the {query} default. Is there a list or other documentation that shows the values we're able to use?