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I couldn't find anything in the Flare docs that explains how I can add an aria-label to the Topic toolbar and other buttons (print, next/prev topic, search button etc)
Is this possible ?

Solved this for my solution see
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=33040

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1) How I solved Madcap crashing because of a clash with the googletagmanager that was caused because Flare uses "defer" when loading the require.min.js script
For details see here https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=33034&p=142038#p142038
2) How I run post ...

I prefer to use Linux/(WSL) tools for post-processing does anyohe know how I can get the $OutputDirectory) to give men Linux forward slashes /my/path instead of backslashes \my\path ?
Also, what is the command-line environment - is it the same as .bat files or poweshell?

Recently I started getting "Error: Mismatched anonymous define()" on page loads that prevented the left menu from appearing and search from working.

By trial and error I discovered that one cause of this was the googletagmanager script that is inserted and after some googling I discovered this is ...

Every so often, when I copy text using cntr C or the Copy button (in the XML editor) Flare decides to send an error report with:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException occurred at 22/09/2020 11:13:38

Requested Clipboard operation did not succeed.


Anyone else see this? Perhaps you kno ...

9 years later, I have the same problem but I'm delighted to see that Madcap have provided a proper solution. It even works
see
https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... gglers.htm

In the default Flare search output, it is not possible to see what filter was applied.
I can probably solve this myself in Javascript by looking for the value of the 'f' query parameter in the URL, but before I go that way I'm hoping there is a built-in solution
For example, in the SearchResults ...

Hi I'm using Flare 2020 and all of a sudden all of my cross-references are output with the name of our company instead of the Topic H1
The cross-reference in the file is fine - this is happening when I build the output
The name of the company is in the CompanyName variable - I assume that is what ...

Just got my annual reminder to renew my maintenance
I took the opportunity to have a moan about what's bugging me as a Flare user :(

Then I thought that perhaps I 'm being harsh, maybe I'm going things that most users don't try to do;
So here is what I wrote - what do you think? Let's make our ...

Got it !
Its classed as MCBreadcrumbsSelf
so I can simply do:
.MCBreadcrumbsSelf
{
display:none;
}

Hi
I'd like to shorten the breadcrumb so that it only shows the hierarchy and not the title of the currently shown page
In other words, I want to see the pages parents but I don't need to see the page title since it's just under the breadcrumb and its a waste of space
Is there a way to do this?

I use snipper variables as a way of "passing parameters" to a snippet

Let's say I have a snippet S1 that takes as a variable S1_P1
Now if I use S1 in a topic it works as expected - but if I use S1 in a different snippet S2, the values of the variables set un S1 are ignored and the values are taken ...

OK found it
1) Found the original icons in the output under Skins\Default\Stylesheets\Images
the are called DropDownOpen.gif and DropDownClosed.gif
2) Edit the images (I use SnagIt) to get rid of the borders (yes they are part of the image)
3) Copied the images to my Resources/images folder
3) Edit ...

How do I change the open and close icons used for the toggler?
My UX people want the triangle without the border...
Thanks

I just filed a feature request (support ticket S015433) -if you agree with me (or want to suggest alternatives or variations) - then please send the request to Madcap so that it gets some attention. Of course, if I'm wrong and this already exists I'll be delighted if you let me know.

When you add a ...

Out of the blue the Flare XML editor is giving me very tall lines (line-height) about 4-5 times the font size.

madcap-page - small.png

The output looks fine so either it's not related to CSS or Flask is interpreting the CSS differently in Flare from how it's done in the generated code.

The ...

I am using the Flare Side menu proxy for an "on this page" menu.
From the generated code it seems that Flare implements this using the Zurb Foundation Magellan Component since I see that the html includes "data-magellan" and "data-magellan-target" attributes.

When I navigate to a header it is to ...

But there is the rub - how do you add an <em> withour resorting to the text editor?
It's not in the toolbar and not in the style window

Hi
I use Git to do source control on my Flare files (> 1500 htm file)

When I delete a file from Flare using the Content Explorer it takes over a minute to delete the file.
Also when I switched Git branch outside of Flare hangs.

I investigated this with Madcap support and they have opened a bug ...

Hi
My website has over 1000 pages.
Every page has a side menu created using a menuProxy in the master file.
<MadCap:menuProxy style="mc-toc-depth: -1;mc-context-sensitive: True;mc-include-parent: True;mc-include-siblings: True;mc-include-children: True;" />

All the pages are in the same project ...

. You'd probably only need to use the menu proxy approach if you need more flexibility - e.g. different position and layout, multiple menus, or need to specify different/particular TOCs.

That is indeed the case, My page is only part of a website, and the page "skin" (header/footer) comes from the ...

Thanks, Dave
Can you suggest a way forward? What is the bottom line of the past thread? is it still valid today?

I see there are some threads on this, but they started years ago before Madcap had side navigation, so I thought I'd open a new thread which will be fully up to date (for now...)

Problem:
I want a side navigation that works like the side navigation skin - but using a menu proxy in a master file and ...

No I use it for other things - I could do a text search for the reference and the tbd class I suppose, but I need a way to collect the output and pretty print it - you gave me some food for thought - thanks