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Is there any way to display context depending on the value of a variable?

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if I insert a table, it does not have a header row by default: I have to go to the table properties and add a header there.

Is there any way so that when I insert a table, Flare automatically adds a header row?

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If I add an option to my Quick Access Toolbar, then quit Flare and restart, the option disappears. Any idea why this might happen?

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By default, if I insert an image, Flare puts it in Resources/Images. Is there a way to change that default?

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Based on some posts here, I tried to use a span class to insert spacing between a heading numbering and its content (having the content aligned at 3cm:

span.heading
{
mc-auto-number-position: float-left;

{

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

I'm a little unclear on the difference between remove vs unbind for condition tags:

Exclude Action Displays the kind of "exclude" action tied to the condition tag. In most
cases, the exclude action is "remove." However, in some instances, this action might be
"unbind." For example, you might have ...

When you build the output from your child project, it's only going to use the files that are in the child project (that have been imported) - it doesn't take files directly from the original global project.

Yup agreed here.

So you need to include these files from your child project in source ...

I get a strange error when I try to paste an image in my project.

I get an unauthorizedaccessexception with the error "Access to the path <pathname> is denied"

Where <pathname> is actually a path on a now-gone colleague's machine.

Why is Flare storing that location as the default location for ...

I'd say (a)

If you didn't include these files in source control, then different people could have different local versions of these files.

But the source of the file is from the global project. If I check in the version of the file that is imported into the Local project, that means there's now ...

The source control method we use is Git and I'm currently migrating a single project to be multiple projects including a global project. This works fine and the expected files are imported from the Global project to my child project.

One thing that I'm unsure about - when I do a Git commit, the ...

Can a new user with Flare import a project from source control _without_ having the project file in the first place?

For example, I just did File > New > Import Project from Source, then specified the required details to import from Git.

However, when I click Next, I'm prompted to browse for a ...

I'm trying to push a project to Git at Azure. But I get the following error:

LibGit2Sharp exception: this remote has never connected : could not authenticate

Does that just indicate my user/password combo is incorrect or something else?

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I hope Madcap fix this soon - more and more people are going to go to 1920 x 1080 or above resolutions, at which point font scaling over 100% is almost mandatory.

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How does CSS inheritance work with li and p? I had set some margin and padding properties on body, assuming that li and p inherit these. Looking at my output this does not seem the case. Where do I set these to avoid having to set them in duplicate - or is this possible?

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Currently comments (that is, content in the text editor surrounded by <!-- and --> characters) is shown in the XML editor in a grey-bordered box and truncated.

Is there any way to change this appearance, especially the truncation?

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Hi Tom,

My skin already appears at the top of the list so should be the default already, but isn't..

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I'm trying to complete the Send Files for Review wizard in Madcap Flare 12.

I have Outlook 2016 32-bit installed locally, using Microsoft Exchange.

However, the "Outgoing Mail Server" field of "Mail Setup" displays "(Could not find outgoing Mail server")

If I click "Lookup in Active Directory", I ...

Is it still the case that you can't map Flare styles to Word styles for output?

EDIT: I was looking at using a Word macro to convert the styles used by Flare (for example, H1, li, etc) to Word styles.

However, one problem is that Flare uses the style "li" for both numbered list elements _and ...

How do i set the default HTML5 skin - that is, the skin that is considered the "(default)" value in General > Skin for a HTML5 target?

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I've created a HTML5 skin and in my target, I've set Skin > Skin to point to it and General > Master Stylesheet to the relevant stylesheet.

In the stylesheet I have, for example, the following style for ordered lists:

ol
{
list-style-type: decimal;
margin-left: 2.2em;
list-style-position ...

I had thought to use the following in my CSS stylesheet:

:root {
--main-red: #c30e2e;
--mid-grey: #7f7f7f;
--dark-grey: #242424;
--light-grey: #d9d9d9;
}

Unfortunately Flare doesn't support the "var" function required to use these constants.

Is there any way to define colours as constants ...

Hi! I'm heading into some more advanced CSS tricks in order to streamline the process of cutomizing styles for different mediums. However, I've become confused by which CSS attributes are supported by Flare and which are not.

For example: The CSS attribute "widows" which is very useful for PDF ...

I just had the oddest problem occur: when I generated PDFs from a target, words have random letters inserted into them; for example:

Create Schema on SQL Server for Windows (Client)

renders as:

"C re a te S c h e m a o n S Q L S e rv e r fo r W in d o w s (C lie n t)"

No idea why this is ...

If it possible through the XML editor to select multiple <p> elements, then apply a <div> element _around_ them? If I select multiple elements then apply <div>, each element is instead converted to a <div> element.

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When you open a topic in the XML Editor, a default (not "Default", as in the name of that particular layout) is applied automatically. This is distinct from the page layout applied to it in the target.

So for example, if I open a topic to edit, a Copyright.flpgl layout is applied.

Is this simply ...