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I've created a sample project using a glossary and popup entries and it looks fine when I build the target. However when I publish the target to a server, the arrow disappears. (see images 1 and 2). Any idea why this might happen?



P.

The mc-heading-level attribute doesn't have anything to do with the auto-numbering. That said, it is applicable to print documentation, so it's not a bad idea to move it to the Print medium.

Back to the auto-numbering, I see that in the Print medium, there is a auto-number defined. So, I return to ...

First I'll ask some questions. Does the project contain multiple stylesheets and in one stylesheet is h2 defined without an auto-number but in another it is defined with an auto-number? Or, if there is only one stylesheet, is h2 define in one medium without an auto-number but in another medium with ...

We're a team who works on the same documentation using the same projects, stylesheets, etc.

However, when some of the team edit documents, "Madcap:autonum" is added to headings:

For example:

<h2 MadCap:autonum="0.1">Heading 2<a name="heading2></a></h2>

When another member edits the same file ...

I'm getting the following error when building HTML5 help; I can't find a reference to such an error anywhere, does anyone know what it might mean?

<LogEntry File="../../../Content/Non-Flare/Videos/Videos.htm" Message="The scope ID has been used more than once in a document.
" LineIndex="-1 ...

I'm not sure if this a recent issue, but: occasionally I hit the Insert button by accident while using the XML Editor in Flare and it will change to overwriting text rather than inserting it. The problem is that I then can't turn it off; hitting Insert again does not toggle back from overwriting to ...

I'd like to have text files containing code stored in my project so that:

* For printed material, the text file is included inline within the topic
* For online help, the text file (let's assume it's called example.json) is accessed via a hyperlink and can be downloaded

Obviously the second part ...

My company has just started using the built-in data classification for DLP as implemented in Microsoft Word 365. However this has the side-effect of stopping Flare from generating Word output. When I try I get:

"Build failed: Generation of output can not be completed.

Command failed."

Turning ...

Hi all,

We're suddenly getting the following error when we try to build Word targets:

Build failed: Generation of output can not be completed.

This is happening to the team so it's not a local environment issue. It's also happening on older Flare projects which had been generating Word versions ...

We use Flare with git and I was wondering why old branches were popping up again.

I noticed that if I delete a branch both remotely and locally using the command line (say "git branch -D branch_name), then re open Flare, Flare seems to recreate the branch again locally.

Is there any way to stop ...

With the latest Flare, I get the following warning generating a PDF:

<LogEntry Message="Links used in header or footer frame - this is not supported for PDF/UA compliance.
" LineIndex="-1" CharIndex="-1" Subsystem="Compiler" Target="Technical Overview (PDF) (Red)" ErrorID="20065" />

There's no ...

pdavidson wrote:I'm on Flare 2020 r3 and seem to still be having this problem. I have followed the instructions regarding the fix, but the issue is still present. Suggestions?

I too found the problem was still there so we've kept the fix suggested above in this thread for now.

P.

I ended up creating a BAT file with the following lines that I run if my Flare builds are failing due to Adobe:

taskkill /F /IM AcroTray.exe
taskkill /F /IM Acrobat.exe
taskkill /F /IM AcrobatNotificationClient.exe
taskkill /F /IM AcroCEF.exe
taskkill /F /IM AcroServicesUpdater.exe
taskkill /f /IM ...

Previous we used the following for numbering:

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

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

However, for the figure numbering, I wanted to get rid of the need for {chapnum ...

It sounds like these are for print outputs? If so, you should be able to set page breaks in the TOC by choosing the page layout to use for each topic (e.g. new chapter and non-chapter topics). Then, if you need different page breaks for different outputs, you could set up and assign different TOCs ...

Hi all

I had two set up two styles sheets for use with manuals:

* The default one is for book-length printed works, with page breaks before chapters (h1s)
* The second is identical except that there are no page breaks before chapters

The simple fix initially was simply to page-break-before: avoid ...

doloremipsum wrote:I think you should be able to apply a page break to the TOC proxy itself. Try this in your stylesheet:

Code: Select all

MadCap|tocProxy
{
page-break-after: always;
}

Thanks, that's perfect!

P.

A clumsy way could be to create a special H1 class, say H1_First_Chapter, and add page-break-before: always; to your stylesheet for that class, then apply it only to the first H1 after your TOC. Would that work for you? Others might come up with a more flexible way, so don't take this as the only ...

I have a required for two stylesheets which are similar:

* The default one is for book-length printed works, with page breaks before chapters (h1s)
* The second is identical except that there are no page breaks before chapters

The simple fix initially was simply to page-break-before: avoid; to the ...

Hi all,

In my HTML5 responsive skin, for "Mobile Medium", I've set Styles > Global > Padding > Left + Right to 2em. However, when I generate and display my HTML5 help, the text in mobile view is flush against the left-margin.

I then tried setting the following in my styles for home page:

.body ...

I've set up a new skin to use in projects - to simply things, let's call my old one "Red" and my new is "Blue".

In the target for my HTML5 output, I've set Skin > Skin to Blue.

However, when I build it, my initial look and feel is Red. Only when I click on a topic does the look and feel change to ...

Hi all,

I had assumed the Links > Broken Links report would show TOCs which are missing topics (that is a broken TOC entry) but that is not the case. Does anyone which report shows that?

Regards,

Paul

Hi all,

We have online help using a sidenav skin. We use the same skin for multiple projects. For some reason in some projects, when you expand the sidenav and click an item, the sidenav stays in the same uncollapsed state. However, other times when a user clicks an item, the sidenav collapsed ...

Hi Dave

Oh yeah, I understand JavaScript won't run on a PDF, but I thought you could generate hardcoded output via Javascript that would end up in both the PDF and the online help (in this case, a hardcoded caption, generated from the "alt" attribute of the related graphic. Disappointed if that can ...

Hi all,

I'm a newbie to using JavaScript so bear with me.

I have some JavaScript which I want to use to:
* Take the alt attribute for each image
* Automatically add it as a caption under the image, wrapped in a <p> tag with a figurecount attribute.

I've put this JavaScript into a file caption.js ...