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by Dee Vincent-Day
Fri Dec 09, 2016 4:18 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Can I control how PDF output is viewed?
Replies: 2
Views: 1513

Re: Can I control how PDF output is viewed?

Oh Duh! Didn't think of that! Thank you very much for reminding me.
by Dee Vincent-Day
Thu Dec 08, 2016 9:02 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Error: "Build Failed: The directory is not empty"
Replies: 22
Views: 51188

Re: Error: "Build Failed: The directory is not empty"

I get this happening a fair bit. I just start the build again and it runs ok. It usually happens when I have been viewing an output then closed it and clicked Rebuild Target.
by Dee Vincent-Day
Thu Dec 08, 2016 8:29 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Can I control how PDF output is viewed?
Replies: 2
Views: 1513

Can I control how PDF output is viewed?

Following a recent upgrade to Windows 10 my pdf output now opens in Microsoft Edge even though I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. In windows 7 it used to open in google chrome. I was wondering if there was a way to control this behaviour?
by Dee Vincent-Day
Wed Sep 28, 2016 4:32 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: HTML 5 skin customization - Nav column is huge!
Replies: 22
Views: 24713

Re: HTML 5 skin customization - Nav column is huge!

To adjust the responsive navigation panel width....

I just love this solution. Thank you!

Worked first time even after my tweaks!

Previous tech author used to go in manually after each build and edit directly. I am attempting to eliminate the need to do any manual editing to the output. We are ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:45 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Page Layout - Add "This page intentionally left blank"
Replies: 2
Views: 3644

Re: Page Layout - Add "This page intentionally left blank"

Many thanks Dave.

I did not think of looking at the decoration frame.
by Dee Vincent-Day
Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:46 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Page Layout - Add "This page intentionally left blank"
Replies: 2
Views: 3644

Page Layout - Add "This page intentionally left blank"

Can someone tell me how I can add the words "this page intentionally left blank" to an empty page in a page layout. I have opened the Page Layout and investigated inserting a variable or condition but the buttons on the toolbar are greyed out. I have tried searching the forum and lots of results ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Thu Aug 18, 2016 9:09 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Changes made to a style not saving into style sheet
Replies: 3
Views: 1614

Re: Changes made to a style not saving into style sheet

Yes I checked that. I made the change all medium settings. This is why I am at a loss to understand what has happened.
by Dee Vincent-Day
Thu Aug 18, 2016 8:18 am
Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
Topic: Changes made to a style not saving into style sheet
Replies: 3
Views: 1614

Changes made to a style not saving into style sheet

I have encountered an interesting issue. I have a style, p.note, this had a light colour background and black text. I was asked to change this to a dark colour background and a light text colour. I edited the style and saved the style sheet. So far so good! The topic pages using the style all ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:44 am
Forum: Mimic's General Discussion
Topic: Transitions on objects
Replies: 3
Views: 29123

Re: Transitions on objects

I'm transitioning from Captivate to Mimic as well. I think. Mimic is lacking some features I've come to rely on in Captivate so I'm not convinced yet that it is going to be my tool of choice.

From what I can tell, you cannot "transition" objects in Mimic, just frames.

Fortunately we are in the ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Tue Jul 05, 2016 9:23 am
Forum: Mimic's General Discussion
Topic: Transitions on objects
Replies: 3
Views: 29123

Transitions on objects

I have always used Adobe Captivate to produce eLearning. However I am now trying out Mimic as I believe this will be better for what I am doing now. I have stumbled across one issue.

In Captivate I always used to fade in call outs and some other objects, always felt it was too crude to have them ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Wed May 25, 2016 1:37 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Flare 12 Issue with drop down sections
Replies: 5
Views: 2072

Re: Flare 12 Issue with drop down sections

Apparently the default is to have the twisty icon Flare 11 also but I definitely did not have any settings for any of the dropdown styles. I did not start this project, I inherited it so cannot say what happened to it in the past. In the end I went and changed the mc-image-open and mc-image-close to ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Tue May 24, 2016 2:33 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Setting the favicon in the address bar or tab
Replies: 70
Views: 99571

Re: Setting the favicon in the address bar or tab

@Dee

Edit your master page with the internal text editor and add a link within the head tags as such:

<head><title></title>
<link href="../Stylesheets/basicstyles.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link rel="icon" href="http://help.yourdomain.com/manuals/docs/Favicon.png" type="image/png" />
</head ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Mon May 23, 2016 3:52 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Setting the favicon in the address bar or tab
Replies: 70
Views: 99571

Re: Setting the favicon in the address bar or tab

I have just tried this in Flare 12 and it does not appear to work. Am I doing the right thing?

Favicons 1.jpg

I added the favicon as shown above.

Then I went to the skin>toolbars>Edit

Favicons 2.jpg

I pasted the jquery and amended the path to reflect the location of the image. Saved this ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Tue May 17, 2016 3:59 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Flare 12 Issue with drop down sections
Replies: 5
Views: 2072

Re: Flare 12 Issue with drop down sections

None of the advanced css options were set for drop down styles in Flare 11. This resulted in no twisty icon being rendered in the output. It looks like this default position has changed in Flare 12. This is now subject of a support ticket and I will place an update here when I know how to solve the ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Mon May 16, 2016 8:24 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Flare 12 Issue with drop down sections
Replies: 5
Views: 2072

Re: Flare 12 Issue with drop down sections

I have changed both the properties you mention in your reply to none and I am still getting the twisty image icon appearing on the screen. I don't know what else to try so I guess it is going to be a ticket for support.
by Dee Vincent-Day
Mon May 16, 2016 5:21 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Flare 12 Issue with drop down sections
Replies: 5
Views: 2072

Re: Flare 12 Issue with drop down sections

I have looked through the help and cannot find any information about editing the icons or changing the position of text in relation to the icon.

I have tried searching for a variety of terms but with no luck.
by Dee Vincent-Day
Mon May 16, 2016 3:57 am
Forum: Web-based Outputs
Topic: Flare 12 Issue with drop down sections
Replies: 5
Views: 2072

Flare 12 Issue with drop down sections

I am currently testing our outputs in Flare 12 and have encountered a problem with HTML 5 Outputs containing drop down sections.

When I generated outputs in flare 11 they looked like this:

Flare Shot 1.png

Now I am generating the same content and it now looks like this:

Flare Shot 2.png ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:56 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Any clever way to compare 'now' with 'last published'?
Replies: 12
Views: 5051

Re: Any clever way to compare 'now' with 'last published'?

I too would be interested in knowing more about this. I can only access my content through the Flare API. I am not able to log into Git directly to use any of the features such as tagging. Git compare looks really useful.
by Dee Vincent-Day
Wed Feb 17, 2016 7:11 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TOC.
Replies: 14
Views: 3323

Re: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TO

OK, we eventually got the bottom of the problem. I was not using a browse sequence for this content. However, one had been set up for another document and was being picked up during the build. The cure was to create an empty browse sequence file for my content.

This worked a treat and my thanks go ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Thu Feb 11, 2016 7:01 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TOC.
Replies: 14
Views: 3323

Re: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TO

If anyone is interested I located an auto indexing file within the Project's Advanced folder and removed it. This stopped the indexing of the section of document I did not want indexed.

I am now going through manually marking index entries in various sections of the documentation to do a trial run ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Wed Feb 10, 2016 8:14 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TOC.
Replies: 14
Views: 3323

Re: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TO

Well this is really frustrating... I have just tried using conditions to only include the section of content I want and I am still getting index entries for pages that are not in the target.

I stripped out all the manual indexing (there was not a lot thankfully) tried again and I still have the ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Wed Feb 10, 2016 7:00 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TOC.
Replies: 14
Views: 3323

Re: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TO

devjoe wrote:Be aware that if the topics are linked to context-sensitive help IDs, they'll be included unless you exclude the alias files with conditions (if you only want to exclude some of the CSH IDs, you'll have to make multiple alias files).
There a\re no context sensitive help IDs that I am aware of.
by Dee Vincent-Day
Wed Feb 10, 2016 6:57 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TOC.
Replies: 14
Views: 3323

Re: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TO

I doubt that mediums have anything to do with your issue. However, the auto indexing might be in play. I don't use that feature myself so can't say definitively, but that could be this last culprit.

I am just looking at that now. I usually prefer to control indexing myself simply because you can ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Wed Feb 10, 2016 5:24 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TOC.
Replies: 14
Views: 3323

Re: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TO

Yes, that's the option you want to set. That tells Flare to exclude anything that is not (and this is key...) *directly or indiretly* linked to the target. Looking at it from the positive instead of the negative, that means that everything that is on the TOC associated with the target will be ...
by Dee Vincent-Day
Wed Feb 10, 2016 3:54 am
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TOC.
Replies: 14
Views: 3323

Re: Index entries appearing for pages that are not in the TO

OK, went looking for the option you described and could not find it.
Madcap Option.png


The option outlined in Red above is the closest I can find, am I looking in the wrong place?

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