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The publishing log shows entries for "Removing foo.txt" but the file still exists on the server. The server is Windows Server 2012 R2 - has anyone else experienced issues with this?

Between Flare 10 and Flare 11, I've never seen this feature work correctly, regardless of platform and publishing ...

I finally came to the realization that there was just no real reason to use the Flare-Git integration. Using SourceTree as our Git client works great and Flare just doesn't need to be involved. The only thing I have to be careful about is to close Flare before I switch branches (it hates to have a ...

Hey, Sean,

There's a couple methods.

The most straightforward, I think, would be using the Windows Explorer search. You should be able to just type the file name and it will display the directory for you.

Another method -- if you know where the entry is in the TOC, you can right-click the TOC ...

On short notice I am asked to provide a PDF of a WebHelp project. For the most part it is fairly easy to produce something presentable, but I am stuck with one problem: I added a simple title page and dropped that into the top most spot of the ToC that I am using for the PDF output. Unfortunately ...

Boy, that would be amazing, Ron. For whatever reason, Flare still lacks basically any support for description lists. It would be a super sensible feature to have, here's hoping that it's implemented in Flare 12.

The closest you can get to adding them, that I know of, is to first create an ordered ...

Edit: Sorry, I think I dropped mine in as you were posting your second. Sounds like this is probably not super relevant now.

In your Target, on the Performance tab, there is an option to Condense JavaScript Files.

condenseJS.png

MadCapAll is basically a minified collection of other MadCap ...

When do you create a branch, on what basis?
What tags do you apply to what things as far as document versions are concerned?
How do you compare content for individual targets rather than the entire branch?
How do you 'archive' your branches? Or do you only archive the outputs, in which case ...

So there's no sign of a table. I can't explain why it happens in numbered paragraphs but not in 'plain' paragraphs, like p (except when they're in tables).


Are you seeing that in the output, or just in the XML Editor?

As a general PSA, I've found the XML Editor doesn't seem to do a good job of ...

In order to get a reliable build, the process is:
1. Do "Get latest all" in the project you're importing from (to make sure you're actually importing the latest files).
2. Do "Get latest all" in the project you're importing to (to make sure your build project is up to date, prior to import).
3. Run ...

I can't find a setting on my import file that would always bring all files in each time I generate. I'm trying to set up some automatic builds so I want Flare to copy all the files from the original import regardless of their timestamps.

I did some testing before I set up the workflow at my last ...

I think the issue with Flare projects on network drives has to do with performance, and there might be issues too with the project being open by two people at the same time...

Yeah, I've definitely seen some performance issues when using Flare with a project in a network location.

In the case ...

Glad that worked, Ramon! =)

I saw this error most commonly when the TFS workspace is configured to be a Local workspace -- Flare doesn't recognize it's a Local Workspace and keeps trying to bind back into the same workspace over and over.

I would recommend starting with your workspace configuration in TFS. You should be able ...

The Logo Url box is visible on the Setup tab of the Top Navigation skin, but, unfortunately, isn't supported for the Tripane skin. If you don't see it on the Setup tab, my guess is you're using Tripane.

For what it's worth, this is apparently a known issue with UIWebView: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2236 ... ndow-print

But if the information in this thread is accurate, then source control is only feasible as long as project linking is not used? Is this true or have I just not found the proper setup to support both multiple authors and linking?
One most certainly can have workflows that involve global project ...

Not a problem, Bob, glad that worked out!

As a quick trick, when you're browsing the Translation Memory, you could do a Ctrl+A to select all those segments, and copy/paste them over to the Spanish language (if that eases things for the future). But yeah, glad we got it back on track. =)

Do you know what the iOS version is? Apparently there are some known issues with Javascript-based printing on versions of iOS earlier than 4.2. I'd assume you're using a version way later than that at this point, though.

...it didn't appear to do anything (but at least it took a long time!)

Sounds like the quintessential Lingo experience. ;)

But seriously, you may still be in an okay position. My offhand guess for why you didn't see anything is because the source for the segments in the TMX don't match the ...

Hi, Bob,

Did you originally send the Flare project from Lingo? That is to say, did you use Lingo to create a translation bundle? Or did you just send the Flare project itself to be translated?

You would only have a Lingo project if you created one originally before sending the project for ...

Out of curiosity, in your Word target, do you have the following option enabled?

generateResized.png

Despite the claims of the tooltip, I've found that this almost always results in blurry versions of scaled images. I was having a similar issue with my output just the other day. Disabling this ...

Hi, Sallie,

Silly question -- you may have gotten the latest, but did you actually check the files out?

Usually Flare tries to check out files when it's saving, but I've encountered this issue if someone else has a file checked out and it's locked ( check-out lock ). I've also seen a similar issue ...

Edit: I should have asked what version of Flare you're using.

Is there a way of automatically formatting this XML that's I've missed

By default, the XML should be formatted to a degree. Here's an example:

exampleXML.png

Are you looking for additional formatting?

If you're not seeing the ...

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padding-bottom: -3pt;



Not to be a bummer, but negative values for padding are invalid in CSS. If that has an effect in Flare, that's probably a problem with their CSS parser and the XML Editor. If that works in browsers, my guess is what you're seeing isn't related to the ...

Hey, Tom,

This is a common expectation. Part of the issue is that the *.flprj file is basically a static file that stores some configuration settings for the project. When you're opening a *.flprj in Flare (e.g. double-clicking it in Windows Explorer), you're not actually opening and editing that ...