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I've had this problem with the Flare 2021 releases. None of them will install for me. It always goes to Setup Cancelled before the progress bars show any progress.
A thing I noticed is that the Flare 2021 installers aren't signed. All the previous ones through 2020 r3 7685 were signed by MadCap.

We faced extreme resistance from developers to install contributor on their machines. In fact, the only one who ever did install it was that guy who makes overly specific suggestions about how to write content in documentation when he doesn't know how to write documentation well enough to make good ...

Make a Cloud tag, a Client tag, and a Draft tag. Apply the draft tag to new topics when you create them. When they are ready to publish remove the draft tag and apply whichever other tag applies.
Make a target for all your client release notes, one for all your cloud release notes, and one for draft ...

Generally, no. The Javascript has to use what it has access to on the page at run time. The variable's definition is hidden away inside some other file which is not even part of the finished web site, and is only added to the page if you reference it in an HTML tag in the source file for the page ...

Try making a fake heading style, a p class with the formatting of your headings, to apply to those Content and Version headings, so the real body heading is the first one on the page.

* In a lot of my projects, content is created and managed in Word.

This is the problem, and you are always going to have difficulties when this is the case.
Here, we dealt with this with a bunch of Python scripts I wrote to convert the stuff that came out of Word imports into what it should ...

If you are setting the security profile by actually changing Windows permissions, then it may be possible to hide/show content by applying those same permissions within the help, assuming the help exists as files locally installed on the user's machine. CHM and server-based HTML5 allow dynamic, run ...

The other thing you wanted is controlled by Skin option, General tab, Automatically Synchronize TOC.

In such a case, Camtasia should generate an HTML file and javascript to build the TOC you want. Try importing that HTML file and letting Flare grab all the other resources and do the conversion (if necessary) to an XHTML topic.

Snippets themselves are not topics, and don't generate something in the output that you can link to. However, you can create a topic that just contains the snippet, assign an alias and number to it, and use that for CSH. You can also put bookmarks within a topic that contains a bunch of content to ...

All of the landing page stuff should go in one project which uses skinless HTML5 output, or maybe Clean XHTML.

The 8 links from the second landing pages that go to the actual help will be external links - you'll specify the link just like you were linking to an external web site. Alternatively, you ...

You have 1000 targets generating 1000 one-topic outputs? Why would you do something like that?
Normally you would just have one or a few targets each with one TOC (or a few, in complicated cases where some sections are shared among targets and the rest is different, and you reference one TOC in ...

You can have multiple alias files for different targets. Each target can only use one alias file and there is an option in the Advanced tab of the target to specify which one.

You can use page layout breaks in the TOC to switch from one page layout to another for particular topics.
However, if you put more than one body frame on a page in a page layout, I'm pretty sure that Flare just fills one and then the other. I don't think there's a way to put multiple body frames on ...

Is it possible you have some extra spaces or other hidden characters in the cells in one group that sorted before or after the other?

It sounds like you don't understand the workflow for using variables with different definitions in different targets.

You create one variable set.
Define each variable you need in it, with a default definition.
In each Target, in the Variables tab, you redefine any variables that need to have ...

Should be the same as formatting the labels on any other ordered list. You have two options.

Use Flare autonumbers instead of the HTML default labeling, and you can set a span style which gets applied to the autonumber.
Always use paragraph tags in your list items, and use complex selectors on ...

If you do have to create one manually, you could try the technique suggested in viewtopic.php?f=75&t=30337&p=137880 of using the regular topic files as snippet blocks.

If you can define a single page layout for each output, you can define the page layouts in the targets and avoid specifying them in the TOC entirely.
If you need different page layouts for different sections of the document, maybe you can just duplicate those entries, and use conditions to put the ...

Make sure the body frame in the page layout applied to the TOC does not overlap the footer.

Maybe.

I have a project that generates two PDFs and the way I do it is a little different, but it does have a separate TOC entry for the title page for each PDF.
Each PDF is a separate target and has a separate TOC, with a separate print-only-tagged copy of the page entries for title page ...

For most output types, a search feature is included in the output and is expected to be delivered with your search files. For HTML output types, this takes the form of a search bar in the skin. It looks something like the search on Flare's own help pages which are in fact generated by Flare. (See at ...

You can apply conditions to styles.
https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2019/Content/Flare/Conditions/About-Condition-Tags.htm#Conditio2

Add a condition to the style class that is on these divs (possibly to the base div style, if the divs come in without a style class name, but then it will ...

For what you are doing, variables are the way to go. They're going to provide the same basic functionality as your ultimate solution, except without the dynamic nature. You'll need one target for each set of MyTerms that you want to deliver (which may or may not be a separate one for each customer ...

I think yonit-b wants to make the togglers behave like radio buttons. I've seen that request before in this forum but I don't recall seeing a good answer. The only real way to make this work is to do some custom scripting.