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by Nita Beck
Sat Aug 05, 2023 5:30 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: New Company Font not Displaying in available fonts
Replies: 1
Views: 1682

Re: New Company Font not Displaying in available fonts

When you installed the font, did you install it for "all users" or only you? It needs to be installed for "all users".
by Nita Beck
Wed Jul 12, 2023 5:46 pm
Forum: Tips and Tricks
Topic: Let's not lose our corporate memory!
Replies: 12
Views: 50850

Re: Let's not lose our corporate memory!

Regarding the Slack pricing plan, yes, it's a per-user plan, although I'm pretty sure it's a per *active* user plan. I'm not sure how many active users there are, but we'd be talking about thousands of dollars per month in any case. And as one of the founders of the Slack community, there is no ...
by Nita Beck
Wed Jul 12, 2023 5:39 pm
Forum: Tips and Tricks
Topic: Let's not lose our corporate memory!
Replies: 12
Views: 50850

Re: Let's not lose our corporate memory!

When we had access to our entire history when Slack dangled a trial of a paid plan early in 2023, a few volunteers (particulary Mattias Sanders) exported our entire history at the time and started to turn it into a Flare project. MadCap also set us up with a complimentary Central subscription so ...
by Nita Beck
Thu Jun 22, 2023 6:01 am
Forum: Central's General Discussion
Topic: MadCap Central User/Seat Roles
Replies: 11
Views: 29841

Re: MadCap Central User/Seat Roles

I suggest you reach out to MadCap's sales department to ask these questions. We're just peers here and can't speak to MadCap's Central licensing options.
by Nita Beck
Fri Jun 16, 2023 7:12 am
Forum: Importing
Topic: Regular importing of Markdown files
Replies: 5
Views: 25655

Re: Regular importing of Markdown files

I have no experience with this myself so can't comment on how good the results might be, but Flare 2023 (not sure of earlier versions) can import Markdown directly. See https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... rkdown.htm
by Nita Beck
Fri Jun 16, 2023 7:08 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Footnote numbering restarts on each page of PDF output
Replies: 2
Views: 7339

Re: Footnote numbering restarts on each page of PDF output

For the sake of comprehensiveness, these footnote attributes are discussed in Flare's help system, here: https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... bering.htm
by Nita Beck
Tue Jun 13, 2023 2:24 pm
Forum: Importing
Topic: Migrating Zendesk articles to Flare
Replies: 3
Views: 23755

Re: Migrating Zendesk articles to Flare

The integrations channel in the Flare Slack community doesn't have any relevance to the OP's question, given that the workflow the OP is seeking is to migrate Zendesk content TO Flare, rather than to publish Flare content TO Zendesk. The integrations channel in Slack is for advice about using Flare ...
by Nita Beck
Tue Jun 13, 2023 11:05 am
Forum: Importing
Topic: Importing RHPJ
Replies: 1
Views: 22231

Re: Importing RHPJ

Hi. Sorry for the delay in replying.

On your behalf, I asked the question over in the Flare Slack community. I just got a reply (today's June 13):

Apologies for possibly resurrecting a dead thread but our company has this exactly problem and were told that "it's coming" but weren't given any ...
by Nita Beck
Mon Jun 12, 2023 12:37 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Folder View
Replies: 1
Views: 1547

Re: Folder View

Sounds like you did something inadvertently to the window layout. Easily fixed. Select Window > Reload Layout and respond affirmatively to the prompt. That should revert whatever change it was that you made (*unless* the "Auto-save layout" check box is selected; if that's the case, you may need to ...
by Nita Beck
Fri May 26, 2023 11:57 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Ordered Lists
Replies: 4
Views: 1752

Re: Ordered Lists

Sorry for the typos. For some reason, the forums block my attempts to edit my own posts. Hmmms...
by Nita Beck
Fri May 26, 2023 11:56 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Ordered Lists
Replies: 4
Views: 1752

Re: Ordered Lists

What you see in Flare's XML editor is going to depend on the stylesheet associated with your primary target. The way that ordered lists are being rendered will derive from that stylesheet. Start by examining the stylesheet. (You might find it convenience to examine it in the internal text editor ...
by Nita Beck
Fri May 26, 2023 11:51 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Not seeing WYSIWYG in XML editor
Replies: 1
Views: 800

Re: Not seeing WYSIWYG in XML editor

Most likely, you've inadvertently selected the "eyeball" button on the XML Editor's toolbar, rather than select something from its list of options. I think you'll set yourself aright if you just click on the "eyeball" button again.
by Nita Beck
Fri May 26, 2023 11:47 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Set condition of ONE variable
Replies: 6
Views: 4371

Re: Set condition of ONE variable

I've achieved what I *think* you're after by creating a snippet that holds only the variable, to which I have then applied a condition. That way, I can insert the snippet into topics, rather than inserting the variable into topics and having to conditionalize each of those instances.
by Nita Beck
Thu May 25, 2023 7:48 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: RESOLVED: Tables in snippets not working with Bootstrap
Replies: 2
Views: 1248

Re: Tables in snippets not working with Bootstrap

Sounds to me like you've inserted the snippet as snippetText )meaning that it's "inline" in some other tag, such as a <p>) rather than snippetBlock. When a snippet is inserted in a tag that already has some other content in it, Flare will definitely remove the formatting within the snippet so that ...
by Nita Beck
Sun May 14, 2023 6:22 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Kerning Changed but I don't know where
Replies: 3
Views: 1092

Re: Kerning Changed but I don't know where

I don't think it has anything to do with how your Flare project is set up. Rather, it's that the font was not installed on Windows. In any case, I'm glad you got it sorted out.
by Nita Beck
Wed May 10, 2023 3:30 pm
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Flare pushes comments in CSS to new line - Workaround?
Replies: 3
Views: 1319

Re: Flare pushes comments in CSS to new line - Workaround?

No workaround that I know of. It’s an annoyance for sure.
by Nita Beck
Wed May 10, 2023 3:27 pm
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Resize images with styles
Replies: 2
Views: 2386

Re: Resize images with styles

I’m pretty sure that all you need to do is to add the max-width attribute, too, set to auto.

Code: Select all

img.YourImage
{
     max-height: 16px;
     max-width: auto;
}
Or, you might need to use height and width, not max-height and max-width. I’m going on memory at the moment.
by Nita Beck
Wed May 10, 2023 3:23 pm
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: cross refs have random numbers
Replies: 2
Views: 1284

Re: cross refs have random numbers

That is indeed weird. Have you examined any of these xrefs at the code level to see what’s going on? Maybe there are residual bookmarks from the imported source that you need to go through and remove. Just an idea. That’s where I’d start to troubleshoot.
by Nita Beck
Wed May 10, 2023 3:21 pm
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Kerning Changed but I don't know where
Replies: 3
Views: 1092

Re: Kerning Changed but I don't know where

See my reply to your similar post: viewtopic.php?t=34255

I don’t think it’s a kerning issue per se. It’s that the font is defaulting to Helvetica because the fonts you’ve specified in the stylesheet haven’t been installed on your computer.
by Nita Beck
Wed May 10, 2023 3:17 pm
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Kerning and Fonts
Replies: 3
Views: 1333

Re: Kerning and Fonts

Hi. Apologies for a “dumb” question, but did you also install those same fonts on your computer? I’d assume that Flare’s PDF engine will be looking for fonts to be installed on the computer, not just in a folder in the project and called by the stylesheet. I could be wrong, but that’s where I’d ...
by Nita Beck
Wed Apr 19, 2023 7:24 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Hiding topics from side-navigation
Replies: 3
Views: 1482

Re: Hiding topics from side-navigation

Sorry for the delay. The forums have been having problems of late and, sometimes, I've not been able to post.

It's not clear to me whether you're talking about hiding things from the Side Nav menu or from a menu that is generated with a menu proxy and that floats beside a topic's contents.
by Nita Beck
Tue Apr 18, 2023 10:28 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: HTML addreess bar displaying giberish
Replies: 1
Views: 569

Re: HTML addreess bar displaying giberish

Sounds like your target is set to synchronize navigation elements.

See this Flare Help topic: https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2022r3/Content/Flare/Step4-Developing-Targets/More/Synchronizing-Navigation-Elements-TOC-Entries.htm

Under the Pros and Cons subsection, check out the Con. It ...
by Nita Beck
Tue Apr 11, 2023 5:41 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Implement Feedback Widget in MadCap for a knowledge base
Replies: 1
Views: 673

Re: Implement Feedback Widget in MadCap for a knowledge base

Welcome to the forums! ;)

I haven't use it myself, but maybe Appzi? I know of a couple of Flare authors who have used it and like it. In one case, I think the free license was enough to satisfy their needs.

https://www.appzi.com/
by Nita Beck
Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:12 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Is there a way to display 2 projects at once?
Replies: 1
Views: 1075

Re: Is there a way to display 2 projects at once?

A single instance of Flare can have only one project open. However, you can start up a second instance of Flare and open a second project. Then you can put the two Flare windows side by side. Find the annotation in the first project, copy its text, then create a annotation in the second project and ...
by Nita Beck
Thu Mar 16, 2023 7:22 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Five Steps to MadCap Flare -- only available until 10/15/17
Replies: 23
Views: 29122

Re: Five Steps to MadCap Flare -- only available until 10/15

Can anyone help me out with an ONLINE version of the APPENDICES of this wonderful book? Thank you very much in advance!
The author of this copyrighted book is a personal friend of mine and is now retired. To the best of my knowledge, the author never published an online version (ePub or PDF) of ...