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EDIT: I found a fix for below. The URL has spaces in it, and you need to replace those with %20.


Hi all,

We have a request to publish our PDF guides to a particular directory in a Git repository so they can be packaged with the code. (Our source files are in Git as well)

I've set up a ...

What is in your stylesheet for h1? If your stylesheet applies an autonum to a h1, then this is absolutely fine in your topic, because it's what you eventually want in your output.

Our stylesheet for h1 is:

h1
{
color: #c30e2e;
font-size: 1.5em;
font-weight: bold;
margin-bottom: 20px ...

Does anyone know occasionally when our topics are edited, a <h1> tag will change to <h1 MadCap:autonum="1 ">? Is this set as a per-use setting?

P.

HI all,

I've seen some tutorials that involved taking Swagger documentation and importing it into Flare. However, IMO this doesn't seem very efficient as it involves importing and processing the files any time that developers make updates, plus the output never looks very good.

Rather we're ...

I'm having the same problem. What I don't understand is that in this tutorial, the user imports the html2 format fine. Not sure what they did differently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... Na03oOakeQ

P.

I've built HTML5 webhelp using a Sidenav skin. This works with one problem.

I'm hosting the webhelp on IIS on Windows Server 2012. If I access the webhelp from a browser on that machine, it works fine and I can see the Sidenav font rendered as required. This works if I either access the webhelp ...

In our print output, we tend to set the screenshot images to the full width of the page.

However, when we generate HTML5, the same screenshots are lower resolution, smaller and hard to read.

What is the quickest workaround for this?

P.

I've hit this issue - we're using Madcap Flare 2019 with Git/Azure - and yes, it happened just after I renamed some files and then edited one. Flare seems to really hate this.

P.

I found using Capture baffling and then realised the button was missing. I can't believe after so many years that this is still an open bug?

P.

We have the following style in our style sheet for indenting:

div.indent
{
margin-left: 25px;
}

The beauty of this system is that margin-left is cumulative, which means you can nest multiple divs and get multi-level indenting from a single style.


Aha, I will try that... however, I think I ...

I notice that if insert a tab into monoformatted text in Flare, what actually happens is the text is indented in steps of 0.5 inches using a "text-indent" style; for example:

<p style="text-indent: 0.5in;">One tab</p>
<p style="text-indent: 1in;">Two tabs</p>

How do I change the default size ...

What is the best way of centering tables in HTML5 output? For most tables it doesn't matter but we have a few small tables which end up on the far left of the page with the centered caption floating way to their right.

P.

I am surprised page-break-before: avoid; on the caption element does not work. But maybe try to use a complex selector:

tr:last-of-type {
page-break-after: avoid;
}

This will apply the page break formatting to the last table row, which you can additionally specify to be tables of a certain class ...

Did you get this resolved? I don't know how much help I'll be, but I've run into similar issues with GitLab.

I had to compare files and manually resolve them. Then I was able to get it to work. If you're familiar with the source and destination changes, you might be able to get away with an ...

I used the following for my heading 1 numbering (where heading 1s are my chapter headings):

h1
{
color: #000000;
/* Black */
mc-auto-number-format: 'GH:{n+} ';
}

I've set up my figure numbering as follows:

mc-auto-number-format: 'CF:{b}Figure {chapnum}.{Cn+}: {/b}';


So I should see:

1 ...

I have no local changes to a particular file:

https://i.ibb.co/zV0P3TF/img1.png

Yet when I try to check it in, I’m told there is a conflict.

https://i.ibb.co/Hh5dx9m/IMG2.png

When I try Auto-Merge, I get the following error:

https://i.ibb.co/vjbJqCV/IMG3.png

When I try “Resolve…” nothing ...

Everytime I have tried to do a Git synchronise in Flare where a merge is involved, the sync ends up freezing (not even responding to the Cancel button being pressed) and the whole operation is left in an indeterminate state.

When I try “git push” from Git Bash I get:

To https://dev.azure.com/Acme ...

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to Git (from SVN) so perhaps there's an obvious reason for this:

Once we completed a version of a documentation set, I created a tag for it - v7.

Then on our main branch, we continued development for v8.

However, I needed to go back and make some changes to the v7 branch ...

Hi all,

Is it possible to satisfy the following conditions:

* Allow a table to break across pages
* Always keep a table caption (below the table) with the table (so, if the caption would be on its own on a page, include the last row of the table with the caption on the same page)

I initially ...

I'm using Madcap Flare 2018 r2 in conjunction with an Azure Git repo.

Everything was fine until yesterday but i have only just noticed that although Source Control > Synchronize looks like it works fine (no error messages) in fact my changes are not being sent to the Git remote repository. Since ...

I'm using Flare with Git/Azure and just done a number of changes including deleting multiple files.

However, when I got perform a push or synchronise, the "Commit on branch 'master' dialog" only shows added or modified files, not deleted ones.

Checking on Azure, I see the files I want to delete ...

2. Is 'Disable auto-sync of all import files' ticked on the General tab of your target? (This would override what your Import file says.)


Aha! I didn't know that option even existed. It was turned on for me, I turned it off. (I have no idea why for this particular target it was turned on ...

Hi all,

I had set up a global project and a child project which uses it, and all is fine. (I have "Auto-import before 'Generate Output'" turned on.)

As expected when I generate a build, the "Auto Sync Import" dialog box is displayed and the relevant files copied from my Global project.

I then set ...

I wanted to create custom templates for our projects, so consulted the documentation:

https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2018/Content/Flare/Templates/Creating-Template-Folders.htm

However, the documentation seems to ignore any situation where you use a version control system such as Git or SVN ...

Could you give a bit more context please? I'm not quite sure what you're trying to achieve.

Hi there,

In this specific version, I have a variable called ElasticsearchVersion, which is the version of ES required by our software.

This works well in our topics: even in, say, links to their website ...