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Thanks again, Dave! Good to know that the whole-project search/replace function works!

Much appreciated, Paul!

Paul, is this list of new features available without downloading 4.2?

Thanks, Richard - it worked that time! (Not sure what the issue was...I didn't have to refresh.)

Hmmm, when I click that link I get the welcome page for the Knowledge Base at the following URL: http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/default_Le ... adCap-Skin

When I explore Flare > General in the TOC, I don't see 4.2 or GEN1022F listed.

Any ideas?

Flare is prompting me to download the latest update, version 4.2. Before I do so, I would like to review the release notes. However, I do not find them in the Knowledge Base. If you have seen the Flare 4.2 release notes, please let me know!

Thanks, Kevin! I did log a bug. The reply I received from MadCap indicated that my name was added to a feature request to "force flare into a flat file structure even if you have folders in your content explorer."

Thanks, Dave.

FYI. Search/replace is another Flare 4.1 issue making it difficult to globally change folder structure references and fix broken links created by renaming folders in TFS (which is done to avoid losing source control history). I have been using freeware tools to do any search/replace ...

Hi Dave,

Regarding folder renaming, my coworker confirmed last week that renaming folders in Flare breaks the (TFS) source control history of the folders. Whether folder contents are also affected I'm not sure, but our team was given the order to rename folders in TFS only.

Regarding concerns ...

Hi Dave,

Thank you for your reply!

In response to this quote:
the option in Flare is working in the way it is says it does

I would like to say that it is not immediately obvious from the Flare Help that the exclusion of the Content folder structure stops short of removing the deeper file ...

Hi all, I am in a team of many writers working from one Flare project. We organize our content files by folders, and often those folders use internal code names (especially for new features that don't yet have official names). Here is a bug I logged lamenting the lack of ability to flatten the file ...

Looking for advice on automating single-topic outputs.

Flare creates output with over 40 files, sized at over 584 KB. I can manually remove unneeded files to get to 12 files, sized at 184 KB. All this for a brief text-only topic!

Any ideas out there to (a) remove the manual deletion steps for ...

I figured out how to remove the toolbar - set its height to zero in the skin editor!

Now if I could just reduce the number of files I'm handing over for this single-topic deliverable.....

Hi Kevin, thanks for your message.

When I questioned if my approach was "wrong," I meant technically. I can remove the TOC and other items but I haven't yet figured out how to lose the toolbar at the top of the WebHelp deliverable. I might just have the developers point to the topic file instead ...

I customized a skin to remove the TOC, index, and other items from the WebHelp output. My goal is to create a single-topic deliverable, complete with style information for the drop down headings. This output will serve as a "start page" for an application.

Example:

Getting Started
About X and ...

FYI for anyone else puzzling over the extra bookmarks. MadCap Technical Support replied to my bug report. Acrobat Professional is required to remove the unwanted "Bookmarks" node that appears at the end of the Bookmarks pane when your content includes Flare bookmarks that are hyperlinked. (Or you ...

Thanks, LTinker. I posted a bug for the extra PDF bookmarks from hyperlinked Flare bookmarks. I also posted a bug for the lack of a way to set PDF settings before PDF generation.

Now, for someone with Flare 4.1 but without Acrobat Professional, is there a way to make those extra PDF bookmarks ...

FYI. I just reported a similar (identical?) problem here: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... =10&t=7923

Extra PDF bookmarks result from any Flare bookmark that is the target of a Flare hyperlink; that is, all hyperlinked Flare bookmarks appear in a "Bookmarks" set of links at the end of the PDF Bookmarks pane on the left of the Adobe Reader window.

Steps to reproduce:
1. In a topic file, create a ...

Thanks for the helpful replies, RamonS and LTinker68. RamonS, good luck on your move and do let me know if you find the sample ECMAScript!

It's too bad that Flare can't do the sorting natively. I will submit a feature request.

Do you know of a way to alphabetically sort tables, such as can be done in Word or FrameMaker?

Do you need an experienced technical writer who knows how to work with Flare? I've worked with Flare from version 2.5 to 4.0 and I fine-tuned our group's procedure for PDF outputs. I've imported (converted) both Word and Framemaker files. I evaluated MadCap's Feedback product, too. You can see my ...

Great conversation.

Lisa and Kevin emphasize the need to avoid introducing errors into the stylesheet. Trent suggests that more than one output per stylesheet could be messy and cumbersome.

For our needs, I think one stylesheet with the group of selectors for heading styles (print medium only ...

Ahh, I've been using incorrect terminology.

I tried inserting commas in accordance with W3's standards (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#grouping) and it worked!

Kevin, do you know why this instance of a complex selector doesn't work? I think some of my previous complex selectors worked with Flare.