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Just to note this issue appears to have been fixed in 2020 R2:
http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Fl ... _Notes.htm

101655, 160940 - Search, CSH calls, and slideshows do not work for frameless output viewed through an iframe

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I have some Flare topics which are converted from Markdown and there are some images which are directly inside a table cell, such as:

<td>
<img src="Images%5Cadv_mode_button.png" alt="adv_mode_button" />
</td>

However I create PDF output, the image does not fit inside the cell:

https://i.ibb ...

I've installed Flare 2020 R2 and just in case anyone else is confused, the "Exclude content not linked directly or indirectly from the target" option has been replaced by a mislabelled "Content to" dropdown just below "Equation Format". (I think it's meant to be labelled "Content to Include").


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Has Flare 2020 changed the way it treats .gitignore? I noticed that this file was being _constantly_ updated in one of our projects, and I'm thinking it is because one colleague has not updated from Flare 2019 and it treats .gitignore differently. For example, if I have the following .gitignore ...

Hi all,

When I built my output which includes embedded video, and view it locally, in either Mozilla or Chrome, the video control display a fullscreen option enabling me to expand it to fullscreen.

However, when I publish the same output to a server and view it online, there's no fullscreen option ...

If you don't get a "proper" answer, could you create a snippet with the correctly formatted (empty) pre that you then convert to text, rather than having to edit it each time? I do this for a particular table style that I use often and it reduces the number of keystrokes and button clicks I have to ...

Does anyone know how to easily and consistently apply <pre>... </pre> tags to blocks of code in Flare?

I only just realised that by default Flare doesn't treat <pre> tags as they should and whitespace isn't preserved. You have to use <pre xml:space="preserve"> ... </pre> instead.

But if <pre> is ...

We have an online help site which consists of multiple Flare projects being published to a site where you select the relevant online help to view via dropdown fields implemented on the site outside Flare. This allow the user to narrow their focus down to the product/module and version they want and ...

Hi all,

I'm outputting HTML5 using a sidenav. When I select an option in the sidenav, it is very noticeable that the sidenav disappears and reappears when the topic is displayed. Is there a way to stop this happening and just have the right-hand pane refresh?

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We have the same issue with our HTML5 output being blank in the iframe we use to display the doc in our product.

We've narrowed it down to this segment of code in MadCapAll.js:
MadCap.Utilities.MessageBus.PostMessageRequest(parent,"DEBUG-AddLine",[f],null);

Removing that segment from MadCapAll ...

In my HTML5 skin, in Mobile Medium, I've set:

Main Page > Padding > Left - I've tried both 2 em and 20 px
Main Page > Padding > Left - Same

In "Preview" mode, this is displayed correctly - the required space is shown left and right.

However, if I built my online help and display it in a browser ...

We're testing our HTML5 output and someone has noticed an invisible button. When I check in the skin, this is related to something called a "Central Account Element". "Central account" doesn't turn up any hits on the forum but I presume it is related to having a Madcap Central account. Since we don ...

I've seen issues with being unable to build PDFs and getting the following error:

The process cannot access the file .... because it is being used by another process. Compiler (Internal Error)

After trial and error, I found that killing the Adobe Collaboration Synchronizer process resolves this ...

I can remove borders from a table? I can do this in CSS and the results are as expected for a simple HTML page.

However, if I try to do the same in Flare, the borders show up.

For example this still shows borders:

<table border-collapse="collapse" width="100%" border-style="hidden!important ...

We have a requirement to host Flare on a server which is only accessible via authentication. That part seems easy BUT the hosting company have said we cannot use the Flare HTML5 sidebar as it is, since that uses JavaScript and this means the URls cannot be secured.

Has anyone out there had a ...

I have a requirement to produce a table of contents page that contains a table of contents for multiple guides in a project - each of these guides have their own TOC:

For example, the resulting TOC topic should look like:
Table of Contents

Install Guide
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Developer Guide ...

Dave Lee wrote:All HTML5 targets require Javascript.

I think the only HTML based target that doesn't use Javascript is Clean XHTML.

Thanks - unfortunately using that doesn't render any kind of navigation sidebar.

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Is there a Flare HTML5 skin that doesn't use Javascript for the navigation menu - even one with just an indented HTML TOC?

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Is there a way to easily identify orphaned topics where that means they are not in a TOC?

There's a report Unused Items - however, that will not include a topic if there is a non-TOC link to it (say a hyperlink from another topic)

There's "Topics not in selected TOC" - from the name I assumed it ...

The way it seems to work is, when you build your target, it tries to build, notices the stylesheet isn't there, runs all the imports then tries to build it again. So you get the error because you don't have a copy of the stylesheet already present in your project structure.

I agree, it's a pain ...

I'm updating a Global project and want to make sure it is completely solid before I roll it out.

There is one issue when I build a HTML5 project which imports from this global; I get the error:

<LogEntry Message="Missing linked stylesheet /Content/Resources/Stylesheets/StylesForHomePage.css ...

Hi all,

I'm running into an issue where for HTML5 output, I am specifying a particular topic, a home page called home.htm (using the ... button to select the exact file) yet went I run the target I get a "Unable to find specified file" error because it is looking for the file in an extirely other ...

Does anyone know what EvaluatedDefinition is in a FLVAR file? I can't find any mention of this in the forum.

The context is that a version number in our covers was generating incorrectly. When I edited the variables files using the standard Flare editor, the variable in question looked correct ...

Oh wow, thanks for this. I have been using Flare for years and never knew you could move multiple files like that!

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