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If your organization is already using Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server, Microsoft provides a free standalone application called Team Explorer that you can use with TFS for source/version control, too. We've been utilizing Team Explorer and TFS with some in-application performance hits, but it's ...

3. Delete the Analyzer and Output folder(or move the Output folder to a different location if you do not want to lose any previously built outputs) Browse into your Project folder and delete the "Users" folder inside
This could be sheer superstition on my part, but please try also deleting the ...

...Flare 11 seems to want to constantly repaint its windows. It'll go into Lala Land (aka become unresponsive) and I sometimes wait *many minutes* for it to right itself, which is really frustrating if the action I had done right before it went nutty was merely to backspace one position...

Hi ...

I created a utility that recurses on the output of Flare to check for broken links, categorizes the results by internal links, bookmarks, cross-project links, and external links, and outputs an HTML report. It would be fairly trivial to switch it so it just returns the number of links for each ...

1. Create a project in Flare 10. For source control, bind to TFS.
2. Install Flare 11, delete Flare 10. Open the legacy project as expected.
3. Bind the legacy project to TFS as was done in Flare 10.
4. Edit and save a project file.



I'm a little confused. In step 3, are you trying to bind all ...

There's a command line version of Process Explorer called "Handle" that returns really clean, specific results. You might give that a try: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx

In your case, in Command Prompt, you'd want to navigate to the directory where you unzipped ...

Any clues as to why the pdf wont display when the document is on the server? IE settings?

This is super unlikely, but is it possible your server is using an outdated/incorrect MIME type to serve the pdfs? I've run into issues before with incorrectly configured servers causing problems with IE ...

I was under the impression that a <p> directly inside an <ol> or <ul> is "illegal".

You're correct, Choccie. The method that Steve proposes, including a <p> directly inside an <ol>, is not valid HTML5. Here's the w3 spec for the element, which lists permitted content: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5 ...

If you have a font file (e.g. TTF, and other formats), then you could presumably use font-face to make it available in HTML5 output, so it can also be viewed by people who don't have the font installed locally.

Then you could use the same method for both PDF and HTML5, rather than having to insert ...

EDIT: Dave Lee made a great point that if you employ font-face (which you probably are already if you're using icomoon or Font-Awesome or one of those), then the procedure I detail below should work for both the HTML5 and PDF Outputs, and you won't need to implement your icons in two different ways ...

So it seems if content has both 'include' and 'exclude' conditions, the content is included.

That's the expected functionality. Include appears to be intended to override Exclude (as, normally, everything is included unless you specify it shouldn't be). Generally speaking, it's best not to use ...

One of the other things you can do, playing off of Dave's method -- if you include spaces in the variable name, it will include each space-separated word as a class. For example, if the variable name was "ThisVariable Strong", when you generated the output you would see two classes applied to the ...

Hey, Karen, this is may be a silly question, but have you checked to see if all the updates for IE11 have been installed? There were some known HTML5 video bugs in IE11 patches that returned Object object errors, which have since been patched out.

Depending on your approach and your version of Flare, there's a few ways listed in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7900&start=25

In my experience so far, largely confined to the HTML5 output, there are no issues with publishing while a project (or projects) is checked out by someone else. You're correct in the assumption that Flare will only have up to the version that was last checked in, as any of the new changes won't yet ...

I've just noted the margin-left property in the 3 styles that are failing have been indented...

Could that be where the problem lies?

I think Steve is probably spot on -- it may be a non-standard tab that's causing Flare's CSS parser to break. I've encountered this sort of behavior before ...

Psider wrote:...HTML5 is very strict.

XHTML is case sensitive (i.e., strict). HTML (5 included) is not.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/docume ... ensitivity

diego wrote:Negative padding top is a hack, but it works in the PDF.

Ugh, that's rough. =( It's good to know there's a way around that bug, though.

Like Nita said, probably the best way in Flare is to create a class that you apply to those images.

Additionally, if you absolutely knew that in every instance of an ordered list you wanted the images to be nearer the text, you could do some CSS such as:


ol > li > p > img /* This is pretty ...

Did you assign a Translation Memory to the project? I believe there needs to be one linked to the project before you can use that Compute Statistics feature.

EDIT: Even if it's empty.

Did you try using Flare's built-in project importer to import the files from translated Document B into the translated Document A? (Project tab, Import button.)

I think the proper, concise way would be for all of this to be one list with the <img> tag inside the <li> and without unnecessary <p> tags around it, like so:
<ol>
<li>Click Save.
<br/>
<img src=”IMG URL”/>
</li>
<li>Select a file.</li>
</ol>


You can already do this within Flare -- no ...

You can work around this in Flare by exporting a version of the project that excludes the content you'd want to omit with conditional tags.

1. If one doesn't exist, create a target that excludes the conditional tags you want to omit.
2. Right-click on the target and select Export to New Project ...

Hi, john,

I've run in to some similar issues trying to parse data into topics once they're generated. In the end, I found it was easier to script a parser that takes our files and converts them into Flare topics, which are then automatically added to the project (which allows them to be controlled ...

Hey, all,

I just wanted to share this little trick we're using in our help system for the popup version of the glossary terms. We really liked how they functioned (albeit we restyled ours fairly significantly), but found it not to be mobile friendly because they wouldn't open when tapped, since the ...