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Yeah, it seems quite tricky, especially since it looks like you'd have to expand the TOC items to modify them, apparently. This thread has some related information and a sample partial script for expanding the TOC items, which could be a reference if someone else has a similar problem or if someone ...

I'm just spitballing here, but it may be possible to have a JQuery script execute on page load and cycle through and add the appropriate auto-numbers to the Contents tab items. I have no idea if such a thing is actually possible/practical or not, but it just may be doable. This would save all the ...

Regarding the "Exclude Unlinked FIles" option, I'm a huge believer. I am currently maintaining 5 different webhelps, and my WebHelp system hasn't even gone live yet! Tagging individual files would be a nightmare, especially since I am using only Basic condition tags. I suspect that the "Exclude ...

Ah, yes, that would be the "correct" answer, thanks Choccie! I had forgotten that was how I wanted to do it. I've used complex selectors a little before to set up my heading levels and bullet lists.

I'll definitely take a look at those links and implement that technique when I hit my next slow time.

I think what you're looking for is setting up global autonumbering, instead of individual topic autonumbering.

It's pretty simple to set up: just add a "G" in front of your existing autonumber format. For instance, instead of "F: Figure {n+}", you would use "GF: Figure {n+}". You can also set it up ...

I have a pretty complicated setup, and I've managed to get by using the Basic conditioning only so far. I don't want to lose my friendly GUI with the sheer number of conditions that I have set up. I absolutely agree with using Include very sparingly, if ever. Making that change has allowed me to ...

I'll just chime in with another vote for tables. I'm sure you can do that sort of thing without them if you have a black belt in CSS, but unless you have time to burn and you're looking for a great CSS learning experience, I'd just use an invisible table and move on with your life.

So, in my project,I have three main indentation levels: none, a small indent, and a large indent. Normally text is flush left, then if it is a step it is indented a bit, and if it is a sub-step it is indented more. Currently, I take Nita's current approach. The normally indented text belongs in a p ...

Yes, I absolutely use conditional tag sets. In fact, I really really wish there were Snippet sets.

One thing that it's good for is making sure that a target has only one of a particular sub-set of tags applied to it. For example, I have two Conditional tag sets called "Document Type" and "Not ...

So, I got very excited by the "Replace with Computed Entries" option. However, it appears that the WebSkin TOC uses the topic's H1 title as I wanted, but that the HTML5 Mini Toc Proxies are still using the actual text of the TOC entry, not the computed entry.

Is this a bug, or is this expected ...

Bah, I am getting these errors, but I'm using the height-auto for responsive output. I hope this gets resolved soon.

Hello,

We use ZenDesk and Flare, and I saw this article which mentions displaying Flare web help output within an iframe in Zendesk.

Has anyone tried this? Being able to use existing ZenDesk user logins and company information to control access to the Flare web help content would be a godsend.

Update: Got it.

So, yeah, it was probably a Flare bug of some kind. I made a new skin from the default, copied it into my existing product, and manually copied over all of my skin settings. The icons now properly stay put when the item is hovered or selected.

Rebuilding it from the ground up was ...

Well, I've made some progress here. The problem is that for whatever reason, when the user hovers or mouses over the navigation panel item, it is overriding the existing background image with a broken image link. This seems to be because the Styles medium stylesheet is completely missing the CSS ...

I know I took the screenshot in the editor, but this occurs for me in my customized website in both the preview and in the output. Update: switching between tablet and web medium did not change this behavior for either the custom webskin or the sample advanced webskin.

For the sample advanced ...

Look in the skin editor Styles tab for Navigation > Navigation Panel hide Arrow.

Thanks Dave! I could not find that for the life of me, for whatever reason. D'oh! That's a huge help!



For the closed book/open book icon disappearing when highlighted or clicked issue, this has always been the ...

Also, does anyone have any idea how to format the stupid show/hide navigation arrow in the HTML5 skin? Using Firebug, I can change just about everything about it except for the color of the arrow in the middle. Of course, that is exactly what I want to change.

The HTML of the tag itself is ...

So, this is driving me a little nuts. The navigation tab usually has these nifty little closed book, open book, and page icons to show the user if that item has any child items. However, when you click on it or hover over it, these navigational aid icons vanish.

I've been looking at the Styles.css ...

So, I'm very disappointed with the Flare (10.1) Spellchecker. I'm having the following issues, and was wondering if other people were encountering similar issues or had any tips for resolving them:


The spellchecker flags my "1.1" autonumbering as a repeated word , and all I can do is "skip" each ...

Hi Dave,

First off, so many thanks for posting this amazing guide. It's (mostly) working like a charm for me and it's incredibly helpful.

However, I've run into a bit of a strange issue. I can append my stylesheet and merrily format my header caption as well as successfully overwrite any style ...

Hrm, thanks steve. I was hoping to find some treasure trove of stuff to make my life easier, ah well.

Regarding specific issues, the TOC docking tips will probably do the trick, thanks. My frustration with spellcheck isn't solved, however. Maybe I'll come at it from a different tack... is there a ...

So, this is either a dumb question or a "Flare doesn't do that" question, but I have to give it a shot.

Is there a general "Flare preferences" page somewhere? I want to change a number of things, like having new topics open to the RIGHT of the topics that are already opened, not the left, so that I ...

Well, I'll be. :shock:

I keep my Content Explorer window docked on the left side of the screen (along with the Project Explorer window) at all times. While it is docked, the "Toggle Show Files" button does absolutely nothing.It has to be in the main window portion of the screen and rather wide at ...

Hrm, I don't really have any of these other issues that you mentioned, so I'm afraid I'm not much help there. I have had some semi-related experiences:


I have noticed a few images that were truncated because they were either too high or too low in the word output, but it was very slightly and ...

Yes, I've also had issues with web previews. Content that is inside divs for a drop-down toggler do not display with their formatting at all, and just show up as plain text. In the final HTML5 output the formatting is fine.

I usually just work in Print mode for this reason, though that display bug ...