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To clarify:
Does the content of Intro 1 (h3) and Text 1 (h4) appear in the body of the PDF?
Do these headings appear in the printable table of contents in the PDF?
Do these headings appear in the bookmarks of the PDF?

Steve's suggestion of using Autonumbering is probably the way to go.

With standard HTML lists, there is a limitation in that there is no tag associated with the actual number. This makes it difficult to format the number separately from the list item. It's possible to use the margin and padding ...

You certainly could do snippets with multiple sets of conditionalized text in each in place of a variable with multiple values, if the snippet is only ever used in the text of a topic. But there are things you can only do with each method.

With variables, you can insert them in TOC entries and ...

There are p.TOC1, p.TOC2, p.TOC3, etc. styles which are used to format the entries at different levels of the PDF, so if you set the p.TOC2 to display: none in your CSS then you should get what you want.

Check the formatting on your body element. I suspect you have a fixed width for that body element which is causing your stuff to be that particular width, which is going to prevent what you are doing from working because the div you want lives inside this body.

We have a similar thing on our ...

OK, I think what you are doing is that you have a master project, and you have another project with two targets for Android and iOS, both of which are included in the master by specifying the flare project and target in the TOC.

When you link to a topic in an included project, you have to specify a ...

Since you are doing such different configurations, you should make a separate TOC for each target, with the appropriate chapter breaks specified. Then you should be able to use the PDF formatting option you mentioned to assign heading levels per the TOC and autonumbering on the H1 in your stylesheet ...

The right way to do this is simply to insert a reference to Manual 3 in the TOC of each of these other projects and thus merge them as described here:
http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare12/Content/TOCs/More_About_Tables_of_Contents/Merging_Flare_projects_using_targets.htm
But merging is not ...

There are two different aspects here: printing from the web page and creating a PDF. Both use the same CSS styles from the print medium (unless you specify a different medium for your PDF), but the print layout is a thing that only exists inside the Flare project, and is only used when building your ...

If the color pattern restarts after each separator, consider splitting the table into multiple tables at each separator. This might also make Flare more easily digest the import.

Use a variable to do that. You can specify multiple values for a variable and choose which one to use for each target.

I did do this (I put it in the topic toolbar area on the right, while the buttons provided by Flare are all on the left). You will need to add custom javascript to the skin on the toolbar tab to create it. You will need to use the DOM (document object model) functions to build this up piecemeal ...

When you insert a drop-down text, the first paragraph of the selection is expected to be the text for the link which remains visible when the drop-down is closed. It wouldn't make any sense to put the list as the thing to click on (and the list is all inside its own tag, so it wouldn't break apart ...

Fixed div doesn't seem to work. See, what I was trying to do was add "buttons" to the master page instead of the skin, so I am using a div table format. (See screenshot). Wjhat I want is for the black div with the links to stay put when a user is scrolling.

What I have in the CSS is:

<style type ...

Since I am retrieving images from a network drive, there may be a scan happening on a server so I'm unaware of it.

The network drive is the problem. Even fast networks are way slower than local files. Work with your project locally. If you are sharing files with others, set up some kind of source ...

Oh, make sure that you finish typing (leave the field by pressing tab or enter) and save before you generate.
But you should just create a separate target for each version of the manual you are creating. Then you can set conditions, file names, and such in each target and not worry about changing ...

Are the projects in question huge? Do you have 3000 files in the same folder or something like that?

I don't know what is happening with your PDF target. I have never had it generate a PDF to a name other than the one I specify. How does the name of the PDF you get differ from what you specified ...

Does that circular error say it is a circular reference ? That suggests you have a TOC structure where perhaps TOC A includes TOC B and TOC B includes TOC A.
If that's not it, you should definitely work with MadCap tech support again to try to resolve that error, because setting up a topic with a ...

Maybe try letting your H1-H6 have mc-heading-level 1 to 6 but setting your p.TOC3, TOC4, TOC5, TOC6 style to display: none .

It's not simple but it can be done, but I do have to agree partly with your comment that you may be asking for something stupid. Usually, if these are meant to be subordinate topics and you set up the TOC to show them that way, you also use progressively smaller headings to indicate this subordinate ...

A way to get something close to what you were describing is to put each section in a drop-down, and each time the topic appears in the TOC, have the TOC entry point to a bookmark inside the appropriate drop-down. This will cause the topic to appear with only that drop-down open.

You can't get separate breadcrumbs without making separate topics, because the breadcrumbs are written into the topics during the build. They aren't a dynamic thing based on how the topic is loaded.

This kind of project is going to be a mess no matter what you do. Try to tailor the conditions to match the underlying logic. Try to make it easy on yourself when you get a new client, or when a client adds a feature, because in your kind of situation that is certainly going to happen. If your ...

If what you have is:

Book Title (linked to topic)
___ Overview (linked to same topic)
___ Other Content of Book (linked to other topics)

Then just put a condition tag on all those Overview topics and exclude that tag from the PDF target.

(If that's not it, like Nita said, post more detail about ...

What it suggests is that the alias is linked to a bookmark in the TOC, or to a path which does not match the TOC in case.
Windows file systems (and as a result, help hosted on them) are not case sensitive, but TOC sync is case sensitive, and links with the wrong case will not find their TOC entries ...