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My company wants to embed parts of our online help in an application and needs the files as text, without any tags. The problem is that the content they need is formatted in tables in Flare. Is there any straightforward way to do this? When I generate the help topics that contain tables as Clean ...

We are new to using source control in Flare and are still trying to figure out a few things. We just upgraded to the most recent version of Flare 2017. We are using Git as our source control tool.

There are 3 writers on the team and we each store our help project files in a different repository (so ...

Is it possible to create a PDF that contains only selected files? We have a very large help system and want to create a PDF with only selected help topics. Any way to do this?

Thanks, Donna

We are creating CHM help. From that help, we are also pulling individual HTM topics to use in our release notes. We have checked the release notes content into a separate repository into our source control tool. Because the topics were originally created in a different repository, when a topic with ...

Thanks, Nita. That's very helpful! I'll check out those topics.

The projects have only a few topics that are duplicated in both.

Assuming that you want to keep them as separate projects, you could use Project Merging either to merge their output or to create a third project that will merge the ...

My company has two products and each has its own help project. For our support team, we need to create a target that contains topics from both help projects. What's the easiest way to do this?

Thanks, Donna

The approach we took was not to hard code any IDs/values in the application itself.

The identifiers that are used in the CSH calls are automatically generated by the app, based on the internal form name (in the C# app), using the full namespace of the form so that they're unique.
For example, if ...

Our application is written in C# and our developers are having trouble implementing context-sensitive help based on Map IDs I've generated. Is anyone here using CS help with an application written in C#? How are you doing it? I'm hoping to come up with an easy way to manage this. Right now, they are ...