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In the Stylesheet Editor / print medium, I filtered on Heading Styles, opened h1, and opened AutoNumber.

There I found mc-auto-number-format with value CH:CHAPTER {chapnum} next to an ellipsis.

I clicked the ellipsis, and in the Auto-Number-Format dialog that popped up, I ...

skwpt

Thanks much for the input. I edited my CSS file, ran it through a validator (oddly, the warnings that popped up weren't styles I touched--but no errors). Then ran a test build and the HTML looked good.

I applied the styles in my page layout (headers and footers), and now (inexplicably?), the ...

skwpt

Here's the start of a misbehaving topic (with the supersized CHAPTER heading):

<head>
<link href="../../../Resources/Stylesheets/MainStyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1 MadCap:autonum="CHAPTER 1 ">Software Architecture Layers</h1>

In my style sheet's @media ...

skwpt

It makes sense that styles I created in print medium would not appear up in the main/HTML style sheet, but it seems unintuitive that those 'print' styles would not be available when I am working in page layouts.

I just used an external editor to look at my main CSS and I see what you mean. It's ...

skwpt

All of my woes the last year were caused by the way I had installed Flare 11. I put the application data on a local Windows VM and the Content, Output, and Project folders on my host OS.

When I upgraded to Flare 12, I installed everything on the guest OS. Much much better (and faster).

skwpt

Oops, I just saw your comment, Ramon.

Yes, I was using a shared drive between my host and guest OS! I don't even remember how or why I set it up that way last July, but Flare 12 (installed appropriately) runs so much faster now, and I am slowly getting used to its new features, like integrated Git ...

skwpt

O helpful people.

I have created PDF output and am mostly happy with the result, except for one blocker that I can't resolve. A giant CHAPTER heading appears at the top of every topic I set with a chapter break in my TOC (First Right page layout).

It's too big--it wraps. (Designed to be flipped ...

skwpt

Thanks, SteveS and ChoccieMuffin.

In some of my page layouts, I created borderless tables to display (alternating left/right):
Top: Chapter title, book title
Bottom: Company logo, page number
I have verified that each variable (or logo) inserted into the table row is wrapped in a <p> tag ...

skwpt

Or, rather, only a few do.

I just created 8 new styles, and only 2 appear in the style chooser. I saved, I refreshed ... nothing.

I don't recall there being such a lag in Flare 11. Has anyone seen this behavior in Flare 12? Any tips on getting my styles to appear so I can use them?

skwpt

*sigh*

I was missing something. I clicked through each of my conditions and saw that I had inadvertently clicked one that the target IS instructed to publish.

I confused Flare by applying both publish and no publish conditions, so I guess the default in such cases is to show instead of hide.

skwpt

Not hidden in output, that is.

I verified that my target excludes it. Something that worked in Flare 11 no longer works in Flare 12.

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

skwpt

SOLVED .

I wasn't seeing what I needed to see on my teensy VM window. Once behind my two HYOOOOUUUGE screens at the office, I could see the transparent pale blue-grey guides, onto which I dropped the floating element I wanted to anchor down.

Also: page 139 of Flare (12) Touring the Workspace ...

skwpt

Thanks, ChoccieMuffin, it looked great until I resized Flare. Here are the steps I took:

Clicked Ribbon > View , and selected Content Explorer and Project Organizer (to start fresh)
Put Project Organizer in focus (top of the stack).
Grabbed the hamburger stack to the right of Project Organizer ...

skwpt

I attended a Flare webinar the other day, where the trainer had his Content Explorer and Project organizer sharing the same space on the left side, such that you could see both and their contents. Each used up about 50% of that area. His setup looked anchored in place.

I have tried to duplicate ...

skwpt

I'd be curious where help search went, too. Has it been deprecated?

I haven't used search through local help for a long time. However, I seem to recall a search option in the help toolbar (or maybe it was in the Content Explorer). So inside the Flare interface, I used to be able to search for ...

skwpt

Consider signing up for this free webinar (you'll get access to the link for the video almost instanly from Madcap Software):

Master Pages and Page Layouts .

I took it a while ago, but I think he went over using images in borderless tables in headers. The print layout is in the second half hour ...

skwpt

I came across this old post of mine and thought I would comment on what my performance problem was, if only to keep other newbies from doing what I did.

When I had installed Flare 11 on the Windows virtual machine, I placed the data files (Contents, Output, Project) on the Mac. Every time I tried ...

skwpt

Thanks, Steve and Ramon.

I don't recall Flare 12 displaying a message about .NET when I installed it, so I was a little surprised to see only version 4.0 installed (via a peek at the registry).

I downloaded 4.5.1 but I didn't install it yet. It looks like I should install .NET 4.5 instead, which I ...

skwpt

If so, I can't find it here: http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare12/Content/Home.htm

Specifically, I am trying to find out what version of .NET I can (must) run on Windows 10.
regedit indicates my current version is 4.0.

The Flare 12 System Requirements page says Windows 10 is supported (which I ...

skwpt

So, I must have clicked every button on the interface but that one.

Thanks much! (And now I know what they are called.)

skwpt

Thank you! I will try this after my release on Friday.

skwpt

A few of my most vocal developers avidly dislike top nav. They want to see pretty much the whole doc set contents at once.

I looked through the Flare docs, and there's a tutorial on converting from tripane to to nav, but I could not find anything going in the opposite direction.

I was hoping to ...

skwpt

I must have disabled it, but I cannot figure out how to get the little indicators to appear at the top of a topic. I remember seeing little boxes I could select for variables, links, cross references, and probably other nifty things I have forgotten about.

I am sure the fix is obvious to everyone ...

skwpt

Thanks doc_guy. I allocated 8 GB of RAM my VM (my Macbook Pro has a total of 16 GB), but I only have an i5 processor. I do have an SSD hard drive.

One thing I neglected to mention in step 3 of my self help is I have never been able to locate the Analyzer folder. Support led me to believe it's at ...

skwpt

I have Flare 11 installed on a VM (details in my signature) and it mostly works fine, except that I canNOT rename or move files in Content Explorer without Flare hanging on the dependency check. I can count on 1 hand during the last 10 months where I have been able to rename/move files, but those ...

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