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Hi there,

Starting with the basics, check that JavaScript is enabled in your browser. Flare uses JavaScript heavily, and your image looks a lot like what happens if a browser has JavaScript disabled.

Does this always happen, or only when you've published your output to a web server - if you build ...

Hi there,

As a quick test, I added the following to the <div id="contentBodyInner"> element of the Default.htm file in the Output folder:


<p id="javascriptWarning" style="font-size:40px;color:red">Javascript is not enabled.</p>
<script>
document.getElementById("javascriptWarning").style.display ...

alex wrote:I ran into this, as well. Does anyone know whether this bug has been fixed in v.11?

I just tested it for you. It seems to still be broken in Flare 11.

Hi there,

Important Note:
I haven't really had the chance to try out the top navigation skin yet, so what I am about to suggest is based solely on what I have read in the Flare help and What's New guide.


As project merging is not currently supported for the top navigation skin, you may need to go ...

Hi there,

I found the following article useful when I first experimented with the Flare API a couple of releases ago. This also includes an example project that you can tweak and play with:

http://tregner.com/flare-blog/a-first-flare-plug-in/

Hi there,

I had a bit of a play on the weekend and was able to get the search results using the following approach(note that this was for a Windows application, rather than a web app):

I had a hidden WebBrowser control that I passed in the search URL:
<YourPath>/Default.htm#search ...

Hi Robert,

I can't really add much more, other than to emphasise what Nita has already said about asking MadCap directly.

I might be going off topic here, but if you are looking to add your own xml elements for your own purposes, from previous experience this tends to work okay. For example, We ...

Hi there,

I managed to replicate something like you are asking for a couple of years ago, but I would have to have a think about how I actually did it, as it was a proof of concept for my old company. I think, from memory, that I passed a search query into the HTML5 WebHelp using the URL parameters ...

Hi there,

If you intend to use MadCap Lingo to manage your translation process, then I would also recommend considering MadCap Capture for your screen shots. The big bonus is that all of the annotations in your Capture images can also be translated in MadCap Lingo, or sent to the translation vendor ...

Hi there,

I tried setting the default program in Windows (which would have been my initial suggestion), but it still used Flare 11. Another option would be to write a small application that specifically opens the version of Flare that you require, then configure that application as the default ...

In TOCs you can enter variables in the following format, but unfortunately this does not work for file names:
Welcome to version [%=MyVariableSet.MyVersionNumber%]

Our workaround is to add 'VVV' to the end of our file names, then run a script to swap this placeholder text with the version number ...

I haven't tried this in Flare for any side-effects, but here is an example of what you would have to add to your CSS (including updates to your existing p.note style):


p.note
{
display: inline-block;
background-color: #3e3e3e;
border: solid 1px #404040;
border-radius: 6px;
color: #b3b3b3;
mc-auto ...

Hi there,

Assuming that these notes will be used in an online environment only, then you could use before and after pseudo-elements to achieve this.

Take a look at the before and after examples at the following link:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_pseudo_elements.asp

Hi there,

Assuming that you are not overriding the table width defaults (either inline or via CSS), the table should automatically behave the way that you desire. For example, the following table will expand to fit the text, but if the text is wider than the parent element or page width then the ...

Thanks for the suggestion. It definitely sent me in the right direction when trying to find a solution that worked for my team. In our case, our drop down heading styles visually match our regular heading styles (which are multiple colours). This means that our online help can be expanded or ...