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A basic question: sometimes I'd like to print out a Flare manual, or part of one; for example, I'm doing my first global linking work today, and I'd like to read about it on paper before jumping in.

Those black background pages eat up ink and saturate the page. They look fine on the screen, but I ...

I upgraded this morning to the new Flare 11 update. Now, when I'm building a project, I get to see "Compile Status," which is nice.

Unfortunately, I'm not seeing any progress indication whatsoever when I do a publish. Previous, the little green progress bar would let me know it was publishing and ...

Just had a go-round with Flare support, and we learned the answer I needed for playing audio files in Flare topics, with cross-browser, cross-OS compatibility.

I had tried using the Insert Multimedia facility in Flare to pull in little MP3 "players," which worked in Firefox and IE, but not in ...

I've used the "Insert Multimedia" feature to insert an MP3 player into a page in my project.

This works fine, though very different looking, in Firefox and IE. However, in Chrome (the browser most of our users prefer), I get a message "This requires an unsupported plug-in" and it just doesn't work ...

I know I can go through effort to do this, but it seems like a simple enough and very handy enhancement: put a "Test Connection" button in the define destination dialog I'll file an enhancement request. I was hoping that maybe I was missing something obvious.

I'm publishing various projects to various FTP sites. I know how to define and use a destination, and all works well.

The problem is that when I'm adding a new destination, if I get the password wrong, I don't know it until I do a build & publish. I'd like to test the destination to make sure it's ...

By the way, I can build the PDFs in my batch target if I don't use Publish in the batch. I can then publish them individually using that destination; Flare asks me to confirm, I do, and it merrily goes on its way, as it should.

It's only in the context of publishing from a batch target with ...

I can see how that works, but it's a bit more trouble than I want to go through, especially since Margaret's solution is the one that I think really makes sense, and it works except for a bug in Flare that causes an endless message loop . Thanks for the idea; I'll definitely keep it in mind.

Well, it works, but Flare seems to have a bug - as soon as I open the batch target, Flare posts a message "The selected destination directory is inside the project folder. Files and folders will be merged or overwritten. Are you sure you want to proceed?" I click Yes.

It once again poses the ...

Brilliant! Thank you.

I had only previously used destinations for publishing online; didn't realize I could publish to the file system. Many thanks.

Gary

I've got this situation:
- I have 5 different books that reside together ("a docs suite") in an HTML5 web
- I also create a separate PDF for each book
- The final entry in the HTML5 TOC for each book is a link to the PDF
- The PDFs are stored in my Content/PDFs folder

And yes, because the PDFs are ...

I'm using top-nav.

I've got my title tags all customized, but I can't see how to customize the title tag for the search results page generated by using the search bar. It says "Search". I'd like to modify that so the browser tab includes part of my company's name.

I can't find a skin style or UI ...

In the top nav skin, I can modify various settings (colors, fonts, padding, etc) for the navigation panel that displays for the tablet and mobile mediums, but I don't see how to adjust the width of the panel itself. Is there a way to reduce that panel's width to a smaller percentage of the screen ...

Thank you.

I'm trying to add Bing tracking code (from my SEO person) to a Flare 11 masterpage, and Flare is complaining "An error occurred while parsing EntityName. ..." I have a good understanding of Javascript, and this is the first time I've tried to directly add code into a master page.

The offending ...

I'm a daily Flare user, and I've got a list of about 7 or 8 suggestions (bug fixes or enhancement suggestions) for things that would make my Flare-work-life easier. My guess is that at least some of these issues are plaguing other users as well.

I know I can submit a bug or enhancement request to ...

Thanks, Margaret. I see what you mean -- they've minified the javascript (sensible), which makes modification tricky. You can run it through a de-minifier, but it's still difficult to work with.

Good to know where/how the TOC is handled. I'm definitely going to go a different route rather than ...

I have to make a quick patch on one of our doc sites. Complicated explanation of why a patch instead of a rebuild, but it's what I need to do. Specifically, I need to remove a topic and also remove it from the TOC in the nav pane.

I'm comfortable with editing code or xml, but I don't know where to ...

Exactly what I needed, works as advertised, and saved me a bean-load of time and trouble. Thank you, Dave!

Spot on! Thank you for saving me a ton of time and trouble.

I have a large HTML-5 project that uses an "InternalOnly" condition to hide text in customer docs while documenting new but not yet released features.

I'd like to create an output version from this project that shows all of those conditions highlighted, so the engineers can let me know which chunks ...

I have that, and it works fine when you link to the documentation suite (see previous postings). However, an external link to the opening page of a book within the suite doesn't work the way I want it to, because the opening page is at the top-level of the docs suite, which means that Flare doesn't ...

Thanks for checking and for those links. I'll keep looking and/or bug MadCap for help with this at the conference in April :-)

Moving my intro into a nested folder does work, but that's not the correct behavior. I want users to land on that intro page, I've standardized on using Intro.XXX.html as ...

I'm not. I'll explain better (i hope), or take a look at http://doc.splicemachine.com : I'm building a suite of books that are wrapped into one HTML-5 web. And our home page (not part of the Flare web) links to the entire suite AND to each individual book in the suite.

If you click the ...

I'm generating HTML-5 output for a collection of books, all nested under one web, e.g.:
- Getting Started
- Features Guide
- API Reference Manual
Each book is its own folder, and each has an intro page.

I have a home page (not generated from Flare) that links into this documentation web, with ...