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Have you ever tried to use Joyride with Flare? I'd really like to use it in a new project I'm working on, but it seems to me that something in the Joyride JS is compromising Flare.

I keep getting the error (in the browser inspection tool) "the function foundation is not defined." That means there ...

Thanks, NorthEast! As always, your advice is very valuable. I've seen React components that also might help with this. I'll investigate more.

Thanks!

How can I modify a second Flare search bar for a side nav menu and have it automatically filter the menu items as the user types? YouTube has an example here on the left menu: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/code_samples

Jim

Thanks. I appreciate the information.

Hi. Question please.

If I have multiple projects that I want to show on one live site, what's the best way to accomplish that? Should I use project linking, or is there a way to load different project content into the "slideshow" component?

I don't want to manually copy/paste into the slideshow. I ...

The new Slideshow addition could be used for something like this. It's like having multiple topics in one file. Each page is an individual "card" element.

I really like this feature in Flare! Very nice.

Jim

Hi. I'm trying to use the following calculation on an a.myselectorname element with my stylesheet in Flare.
margin-top: calc(100vh + var(--offset));

This isn't working though. What am I doing wrong? It works fine on codepen.

Jim

Can users visiting a live, private site (internal for our employees only) with the Viewer Only permission be given annotation permissions?
Or, is there a plugin that safely offers this feature? I think it would be beneficial... especially for internal only usage with employees.

Any advice on a ...

Has anyone integrated Flare with a product called inSided? It's a product offered by the company Gainsight. inSided integrates with tools like Zendesk and others, so I figured it would be easy to integrate with Flare as well.

If you have any advice or experience with integrating Flare with inSided ...

Dave, thank you so much for this advice. I don't like the fact that Flare will dictate a skin (if there's one in my project) if I don't specify one. This leaves my project open to someone modifying the dictated skin for this menu... when in fact, that skin might be used for a menu in another part of ...

You might try increasing (or setting) the z-index value so that the menu is at a higher level (layer).

Hi. I'd like to create something similar to the Dynamic Help window that opens when you click Help > Dynamic Help in Flare. See attached image.

Does anyone know how I could accomplish creating something like this? I'm wanting a panel (or custom sized window) to display my team's help content.

CSH ...

Thanks, Nita. These terms haven't been added over time. I received an Excel worksheet from a developer with two columns: ColumnA=terms list and ColumnB=definitions list. I sorted them in alpha order and removed leading spaces (in the definitions column). Then I used the Kaizen plugin to "Import ...

Hi. Is there a maximum number of entries for each glossary file? I have a glossary file that has around 2,100 terms and definitions (and I need to add more). When I build online or PDF outputs, everything works fine and the glossary generates.

However, when I attempt to open the glossary file in ...

Hi. I've installed Eclipse and Java, and I created an Eclipse target in Flare.

After I build the Eclipse target and try to view it, the Eclipse terminal window pops up and then shuts down. Does anyone have any advice about getting this to work?

Also, for the Viewing Options in Flare, I select the ...

I'm placing a menu proxy into a MasterPage (Template Page), and I want to apply my own CSS to the list the menu proxy creates.

I'm unable to find the element/class reference for the menu proxy. I have the CSS for an unordered list, but I'm having trouble finding how to apply that CSS to a menu ...

Thanks for the information, Dave. I did not know Flare automatically redirected URLs in that fashion. I thought because the TopNav URLs were visibly different than the Tripane URLs, we would have to create the header/alias files and have the devs change many links in the application.

Yes, Dave, we ...

Just as a note, I don't think you can tell Flare which header file to use with the alias file.

Hi David. I think you can set a primary header file for individual alias files to use. It's in the Identifier Options dialog (open the alias file and in the local toolbar, click Identifier Options) and ...

Thanks, AlexFox! That worked.

I'm having a similar issue in Flare. Bing gives the code below, and Flare says the equal sign is an unexpected token. Why doesn't it work?

<script type="text/javascript"
id="bcs_js_snippet"
src="https://ui.customsearch.ai/api/ux/render?customConfig=555555555&market=en-US&safeSearch=Moderate&q ...

Hi TWAnnie. I'm not sure why the div didn't show up before, but it is there. I did try inserting a Flare textbox from the insert tab, and that must have jerked something into gear in Flare, because now it all works. Sometimes, I think Flare has issues if the writer manually codes HTML into the ...

Hi. I have styled a DIV and within it I have a <p> and an unordered list (<ul><li>). In Flare's editor, the div and style shows fine. However, in Preview and in any browser, the layout is distorted.
Is this a bug in Flare, or am I doing something else wrong? This type of code works fine when I ...

Or maybe a script to check the status of ServerEnabled, and if it is true, then abort the build or the publish and give the writer a dialog message box explaining why.

Thoughts?

Thanks, Dave. Guess I'm confused by Flare's help; it says it will show the full-size image in the popup. My image is 800x600, so it doesn't seem like Flare calculates the window properly because it clearly doesn't show the popup at 800x600. It looks more like 400x500.

I'll just show the full image ...

Thanks! Upgrading is the answer.