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Thanks again, I will give ems a go so.

Thanks very much Taylor, I gave that a try. Does the amount of text per line vary for you on different sized screens?

Hi there,

We want to produce a side navigation output in flare. We have used top navigation before and people like the white space that displays on either side of the content so that the content is narrow, making it more readable. So in the side navigation, I have tried adding padding left and ...

Hi all,

For a side navigation output, two scroll bars display (one for the TOC) and one for the content topic:

scrollbars.PNG

Does anyone know how to remove the scrollbar that displays adjacent to the TOC so that you just have one scrollbar on the right side of the page? It looks like Oracle ...

Great, thanks very much again Nita.

Hi Nita,

Thanks very much for that. I was just looking at the help about how to "unbind" a hyperlink with a condition. I was not aware of it before so thanks.
Do you have to do this manually for each existing cross-reference or is there some way you can set the exclude action to unbind for a ...

Hi there,

Typically, we generate our output in a HTML format and each topic contains cross-references to other topics. However, sometimes we get asked to provide a subset of our content in PDF format. So if Topic A has a cross-reference to Topic B, we might get asked to provide a PDF that only ...

Hi Jennifer,

I am far from an expert, but my thoughts are below:

Some writers might like to create their own styles rather than customizing the defaults. In the case of list items, creating new styles might provide more flexibility than the defaults. However, it is perfectly fine to customize the ...

I was looking forward to being able to implement ElasticSearch, but because it does not work on the Edge browser by default currently (unless users run a command from the command line), it is not something we can deliver to our customers unfortunately.

Our team would be really interested in implementing a third-party search engine also. There was someone on the forums that was looking into integrating the search engine from this company: https://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/ , but I am not sure how far they got with it.

Great, thanks very much Dave.

Hi there,

I have a note that is implemented using a div. I would like the width of this div to automatically adjust itself to fit the content included in it. I thought the easiest way of doing this might be to use display: inline-block in the css of the note. So the css of the note would be:
div ...

Thanks very much all, looks like CSS is the easiest option to work around this.

It looks like jQuery does work in that this script will remove Home links, but previously this script was able to remove a Home link that displayed in one of the menus in the top navigation area.

Hi all,

I had a small jquery script in the previous release of Flare but I have just noticed that it is not working anymore. Does anyone have any idea if you need to do something different when referencing jquery in Flare 2017 r2? The script is included in a master page and is as follows:

<script ...

Hi there,

We have included a number of drop-downs in our content using the Madcap | dropDown style. When I open many drop-downs they all stay open unless I manually close each of them. This makes the screen look very busy because there is a lot of content displaying. Does anyone know of a way to ...

Hi, does anyone else find that the build time for a target is substantially slower when the topic titles are synced with the TOC? It previously took about 15 minutes to build a target but with the synchronization on, it is taking about an hour.

Hi,

I actually logged a ticket with Flare support about this. Here is there response:

"Flare's XML editor does not allow more than a single space to be inserted when adding with a spacebar click. However, you can add multiple spaces in a row through the Insert > Insert Character > "Non-break Space ...

Hi there,

I ran the Analyzer report on Markup Suggestions and I just have a few basic questions:

Is there any way to avoid introducing multiple spaces when writing in the XML editor of Flare? We normally write our content in the XML editor and the only way these spaces seem to show up is in the ...

Okay, thanks very much for that Dave.

Hi there,

If I apply a condition to a topic, Content Explorer allows you to show condition indicators to indicate the condition associated with the topic.
Is it possible for the TOC to show condition indicators for conditions applied at topic level?

I know the TOC can show condition indicators ...

Yes, it would definitely be great if there was a way for an item in the side menu to indicate if it had child topics, especially if you have a lot of content in your project. If you figure out a way of doing it, please update this thread.
Would it even help if (in your example), the child topics ...

Thanks for this. I tried in html output. For some reason, the row borders seem to disappear on some rows.

For example, before the sort, the table looks like the image below labelled "Before sorting the table".
beforesort.PNG

However, after I sort Heading 1, the Zebra and Dog rows lost the border ...

Hi Salem,

There is a presentation on page layouts that I found very useful for generating PDF content. It is called "Master Pages and Page Layouts: Where Do I Start?" and is on http://www.madcapsoftware.com/resources/recorded-webinars.aspx

It might help you out with setting up page numbering and ...

Hi Pamela,

Just wondering if you found a solution to this?

thanks,
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