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sdcinvan

Nita, this just occurred (3x since upgrading to the v11 branch) in my Flare v11.1.

As per the earlier suggestion, I will first remove everything below /Analyzer and /Output (and if present, everything under /FileSync and /SourceControl), then reopen Flare. I will also post a ticket with MadCap ...

sdcinvan

OT but speaking of paths, I do have a weird one...

For PDF publication, I have attached a link to the table of contents on the logo that appears in the footer of a Global Project Linked page layout.

The code is:

<xhtml:td xhtml:style="text-align: left;padding-left: 2px;padding-right: 2px;padding ...

sdcinvan

A full path to an external file makes sense to me - we use that to point to general policies etc on a server and they are not relative once the project is built and published.

If you link to a file within your project why are you setting it as an external link anyway? If you use "Insert Hyperlink ...

sdcinvan

I thought I was being clever by using the system variable Level6 (First H6 on page), which is an unused header. I set it up with a small font and white text (so it was 'invisible') and I published... it worked, I could now control the page header in sub-sections!

EXCEPT there is a big caveat!

I ...

sdcinvan

Greetings all,

I am having some difficulties with using the system variable Title (aka Title of Topic).

After placing this variable in the header of my Page Layout, I thought that by setting the topic name by adding the following to each topic...

<head>
<title>Topic Title</title>
</head ...

sdcinvan

Hello Wil,

Thanks for your reply. I think I should have clarified that this happens only under certain circumstances because it isn't a consistent problem.

I decided to actually determine when it happens and it turns out that that absolute links are captured when using Insert Hyperlink > Link to ...

sdcinvan

I've noticed this undesirable behavior before and even though it hasn't bit me yet, I can see this being a problem if I need portable Flare source files.

I just inserted a link to another topic in the same document and noticed that Flare recorded it as an absolute path:

<a href="file:///D ...

sdcinvan

It wouldn't be that difficult to generate the links automatically if you know a bit of Javascript.

For example, a script could read in the TOC from either a copy of the fltoc (XML) file, or from a TOC proxy inserted in a topic.
Then it could check the current topic filename in that, and calculate ...

sdcinvan

I am becoming quite frustrated over this.

The impression I get from MadCap is that they seem to consider git support done/checked off their list of supported featured. In reality, most organizations use (or should use) git with SSH enabled.

sdcinvan

I agree 101% with you sdcinvan, "Next topic" and ""Previous topic" would be really useful in HTML5 Top Nav output and I just cannot understand why it's not supported in Flare.

If anybody finds a way to include a "next topic" link at the end of a topic (apart from the obvious manual hyperlink in ...

sdcinvan

My HTML5 target builds went from about 1-2 minutes (with Flare 10) to 5-6 minutes (with Flare 11). Same project, no major changes, just topic edits here and there.

MadCap Support zipped my project and built it in 1/2 the time. These are the suggestions they gave me for reducing build times. I'm ...

sdcinvan

Update: I restarted Firefox with a clean profile... favicon worked!

Shut down and restarted Firefox in my working profile and found that the favicon now appears in the tab. Problem solved!

Update 2: Definitely a workstation/browser-side issue.

Thanks for your assist Ramon!

sdcinvan

Favicons get cached by the browser. I suggest clearing the cache and trying again. Only then it is possible to make a verdict. It might have worked for IE11 because that is typically the browser that people use the least.

Thanks Ramon,

Within a few minutes of posting that message, I realized ...

sdcinvan

Hello all,

I hope everyone had a good Christmas/holiday rest.

I have a bit of an OT question.

I noticed that the latest version of FireFox does not display the favicon. My HTML5 documentation has a favicon (in the root) but it only appears with Chrome and Internet Explorer 11 (I have only tested ...

sdcinvan

Thank you for your great tips! :D

2. Index proxy
The Index proxy works perfectly with the PDF target but the HTML target is just a blank page. Ideally, I wish to include an alphabetic list of all key topics. Yes, I understand that the search function may appear to make the index moot, however ...

sdcinvan

I must be doing something wrong or misunderstanding how Analyzer works??

When I open a project, I expected Analyzer to only report any anything directly related to that project and ignore any other folders that are obviously unrelated to the project?

I only want Flare or Analyzer to process or ...

sdcinvan

Just as puzzling as the above, Analyzer v8 will not open this project! It will open any of the other projects but the one in question will not open, nor are there any error messages associated with opening it... nothing... as if I didn't attempt to open it. Please keep in mind that this is a ...

sdcinvan

Hello all,

My Flare content folder holds multiple projects that are separate and built with their own independent Targets and TOCs. They all have common topics and all use a single common stylesheet.

When I began using the HTML target, I noticed that Flare was also publishing every other project ...

sdcinvan

Sorry about the restriction about how soon you can post after a prior post. The forums were hit really hard by spammers about a month ago over a weekend and many of us MVPs spent many hours chasing after them over that weekend and well into the next week. Meantime, MadCap tightened the controls so ...

sdcinvan

My mistake, the link in Nita's post works perfectly. I think I was having an off-day. Thanks for your reply Dave. :)
You know, the irony here for me is that *I've* never gotten the code in the KB article to work. Maybe I'm having an off-forever! I'll have to revisit this myself...

Nita, for me ...

sdcinvan

IMO, your client is missing the point of the online docs (which was my original problem, too!); they were never meant to be duplicates. If they want an exact match to the print version, then publishing the doc as a PDF converted for web viewing (Scrib style) might be all they require. Flare's HTML ...

sdcinvan

Hello all,

Still experimenting with the TopNav skin for an eventual release.

Forgive me if these questions have been previously asked and answered, I did make an effort to find these answers. :oops:

1. Breadcrumbs proxy
Unlike MadCap Flare's example: http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare11 ...

sdcinvan

This is a great post, but my page had a small bug when I followed the instructions in the KBA.
If I viewed my page in Safari on a mac, and then zoomed out, the browser displayed white space in the bottom half of the browser instead of displaying more content. So, zooming out would make the content ...

sdcinvan

But else, I would step away from the concept of autonumbers in HTML5 as it simply looses its meaning in the online world of documentation.
Playing devil's advocate here, and not addressing Shawn's problem directly. I have a client for whom I produce API documentation. The PDFs have auto-numbered ...

sdcinvan

Hi Shawn,
autonumbers in HTML5 output for most scenario's doesn't sound like a useful addition. E.g. in your list you have the Figure 6-n, where I guess that the 6 refers to a chapter. HTML5 output isn't about chapters, so what will the number mean to the user? I can see some use in numbering ...

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