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I'd also be interested to hear how things are going. Like you, we too are looking at Pulse just for the data collection.

Things aren't going so well. While I like the data Pulse can provide, the UI has some bugs and usability issues. Also, one of our targets stopped reporting feedback in February ...

Added a breadcrumb proxy directly above body proxy. Breadcrumb shows up in the very top left corner of the page, so it's sitting behind the header image (HTML5 target). If I move it below the body in the master page, it displays bottom left so you have to scroll to see it. I don't see any style ...

I just had a thought (maybe only 2017r3 and newer?).

Display the Formatting Window (button in the Style section of the Home tab). It'll show you the styles applied to whereever you've clicked and what is inherited from where. Some of the styles show help text (I think from comments in the ...

Have a look at the tutorials on the Mozilla site as they'll run you through the general principles of CSS and complex selectors/combinators.

There are also this Madcap post:
https://www.madcapsoftware.com/blog/2017/10/26/five-ways-to-customize-your-html5-top-navigation-site-with-project-templates ...

Are there any tutorials that get in to styles at this level? I need to make several adjustments to the Soledad template and just do not have days upon days to spend figuring out these things. I thought looking at the style tags in the XML or inspector would help but it seems like those are only ...

Yep there it was, thank you. I don't understand what Complex Selectors are or how I would have figured out to look there, based on what I see in the XML and in the documentation.

Interesting. I don't know how to update div.home-tiles > div. This is what I see. (attached, I hope)

Thanks for your reply! That's where I thought it was too. But that changes the color of the entire block that the tiles sit on. Unless I should be changing something other than the Background attribute. The tiles are still black. Will try and attach screen shot. I also see there's a styles thread in ...

I'm trying to modify the soledad template, starting with the landing page. Having all kinds of trouble figuring out what styles to modify to achieve my objectives. I'm looking at the source code for clues and clicking all through the StylesForHomePage style sheet. One simple thing I need to do is ...

I just got a Central license and was interested in the cloud-based collaborative review capabilities. I've reviewed the Getting Started documentation. It's very feature centric. I need help with concepts and use cases. For example, I doubt our company is on board with publishing to servers they don ...

Yep that probably explains it. We don't do a full publish/replace very often because it's like a 3-day process to copy the output from QA to staging and then staging to production. I may try to delete and copy over the data folder contents and see if that helps. Thank you for pointing me in the ...

I have draft topics that keep sneaking in to my production builds for various reasons not caused by Flare. I delete them but they seem to remain in search results forever and then throw a 404 when clicked in the results list. How long before these go away and is there anything I can do to expedite ...

Thank you Dave. A button would be nicer I think. In the past we just used an image on the master page because we didn't have a topic toolbar. But now that I'm doing a complete content and design refresh I'd like to add a topic toolbar for printing, expanding, emailing the link, etc. I'll give your ...

Thank you for the code snippet. I will try it out in a bit. My first attempt throws a Flare error but I can't do any troubleshooting until later today or tomorrow. I'm a little surprised that emailing is not an included topic toolbar function!

This seems simple but I can't find an answer. Need to add a link to my master page so that users can share topic URLs via email. So, click the link, it opens their default email app, topic URL is populated in the email body, and they can send it to whoever they want. What obvious solution am I ...

We just got Pulse integrated with Flare and I'm finding the documentation a little clunky and not so helpful, and it's very community-centric. We are just looking to Pulse for analytics right now--not the social community features.

Would be great to have a dialog going here as we work our way ...

Grep to the rescue! Thank you for saving me the time of searching for and trying out different tools to find the one that worked. I'll take a look at Notepad + + too but grep was the first one I tried and worked exactly as expected. So rare these days!

And lesson learned. Never smoke test a big ...

I need to do a find and replace in all of my output HTM topic files, but it needs to find and replace in the source code. Can anyone recommend a free tool for this?

Back story. My master page somehow got a random "k" in the top left corner, so now every topic has that "k". Obviously I can't find ...

I'm using a master page OtherTopicsFixedSideMenu in my test project and it puts a side menu where I want it on the page. When I copy this master page to my production project, it seems to lose the 2-column formatting. The only difference I see between the 2 layouts in each project is that a ...

Thank you! I've created it and now will try to apply it in my new project. CSS and styling is definitely out of my comfort zone so I appreciate the nudge here Yesterday I was just staring at the topic style class, knowing the answer was in there somewhere, but unable to discern it.

I have a sign-in page topic that needs to display without top nav. We don't want users digging through the Help content unless they're signed in, but we want to offer a bit of sign-in page help. What's the trick? Short of creating an entirely new project with a top-nav-less skin for this one topic.

I did zip and unzip with Flare. But unzipped only gives me the Content folder. Project folder is there because I can see it with zip file viewer. But it's not unzipping/unpacking with Flare.

Update. I used 7 Zip to view the project zip file and I do see the Project folder, so it's an issue with the unpacking not the zipping. Thinking it might be related to low disk space on my local drive. When I get more space I'll try unpacking again and either prove or disprove my theory.

Yes I used Flare's Zip Project feature. And when I unzipped the contents it's just the Content folder. I tried it twice with two different project zips from two different weeks. I don't seem to have a zip viewer that will just let me look at what's in the zip without unpacking it, which takes ...

I've been good and backed up my project files regularly, and I now I need to restore the master TOC from backup. When I open my zipped project files it only restores a Content folder. Why isn't the Project folder there?