MadCap Software Forums

Hello All,

Currently, I am using MadCap Flare 2017r3 and producing online help for the healthcare system through their releases.
Is there any way to have web delivery instead of as a part of releases(as a contextual help system)? Can MadCap Central help in this regard?

Thank you all for helping ...

Hi,
hope you know about MadCap Contributor, it will facilitate the current requirement - https://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/contributor/

Hello All,

We have used MadCap Flare for the past decade with SVN as a subversion. Auto commit was handled by a scheduled job( command line) and everything was working fine.
Now we have moved to git and have migrated all projects to git.

I have no idea of technicality.
Can anyone please help me ...

Thank you Trent,

I have raised the concern on sais platform.

Mj

Thank you Trent,

I did so, those are the settings done by Adobe but I confirming the settings done on PDF output by MadCap Flare. Those settings I have seen failing.
Can it work on any machine irrespective of the environment?

Thank you Trent for your time.

Mj

Hello All,

I am generating the PDF output with all protection parameters. Still, I am able to copy-paste the content in a few cases.
Does it mean that restriction permission will work only on the said version of Acrobat Reader?
Can anyone have encountered such an issue?

Thank you all in advance
Mj

Hi Trent,

Thank you very much for your time and efforts. I will check with the IT guy.

Mj

Thank you Devans for your kind suggestion!

Hi All,

I am having online help and need to protect it.

What can be done in terms of access(right), save it as a webpage. I am using HTML Guard to protect from copy.

Thank you all in advance!
Mj

Hello All,

I have one requirement where an external person(not having access to an online help project) can upload a Word file that will be accessible through a hyperlink by the clients.

To avoid dependency on documentation developers it is required.
E.g.
Members of any team can upload a release ...

Thanks RStreets,

I will give a try to this.

Hi RStreets,

Thank you very much for your response.
I am using flare 2017r3, where I can find this Excel Import Editor?

I have to maintain the history, so, I can opt for uploading Excel also. And, the topic in flare will keep on appending with new uploads every time. Appending text will make it ...

Hi All,

Can anyone help me in uploading the Excel file on MadCap Flare automatically?

Pls, guide me if, by some other means, we can achieve it.


Thank you
Mj

Hello All,

Respected All, do we have any facility to take content on online help automatically in MadCap Flare?

In Brief,
I am having single sourcing online help project. And,
I have a monthly process, the report of which is to be sent to the client through online help. This report may be in Excel ...

Hello friends,

I have a single source for my online help. I am using conditional tags and it is working fine as per my requirements.
May I use conditional tags on the logo and watermark also?

Please suggest if you have come across such a requirement.

Thanks in advance!
MJ

Hi All,

Just confirming, does MadCap Flare provides copy protected feature?

I have single-source documentation across the companies, and I don't want them to copy my content.
Currently, I am using a third-party tool to protect, which is windows based only. Just out of curiosity I am asking whether ...

Hello All,

I am having one issue with committing the online help on SVN.
SVN commit is going fine but MadCap updates one function on each file whenever the project is published. There is no function in a text editor. No idea from where it is coming and why it is updating every time.
Because of this ...

Thank your very much Mark.

Hi Mark,

One quick question, which version you are using?
I am using 2017 r3 and it does not show Multimedia --> YouTube and all.....only the multimedia option is there.

Thanks,
Mj

Thanks Mark,

Thank you for your valuable help and suggestions.

Mj

Hi Mark,

Thank you for your help. few more points to clear,

1. What about security at Vimeo since we are using healthcare online help?
2. That link will redirect me to video directly?
3. I am protecting my help using 'HTML Guard' from copying the content, still that link will work?
4. You are ...

Dear All,

I am creating online help for my clients where I am using short videos also.
Uploading video is working fine but it increase the load on server.

Is it possible to have video link on help page and this link refers to video on another server? Pls guide.

Hope I am clear in putting my issue ...

Thanks Man,

Apart from your links i also referred link below which helped me.

https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... graphs.htm

If any one wants to refer for auto number generation.

Mj

Thank you Rob, I will try and come back to in few days.

Mj

Hi doloremipsum,

Thanks you for your reply. I am having online output by using third party skin.



Are you using autonumbering to generate those numbers, or have you typed them in manually?
Are the numbers set in the topic headings, or somewhere else?
Do you have a single TOC for all of your ...