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I'm looking for a way to generate a cross-reference map, i.e. a list of all pages, that do a cross-reference (or <a> ) to another page.
Flare provides the link viewer that gives me a list of files referenced by a topic, and where it is referred to, but I want to generate a report that collated all ...

Answering my own question

1) create a master stylesheet master.css, set this as the master in the project or both the release and the draft targets
2) In that stylesheet link to the main-style.css and to the draft.css files - I prefer to do this in the text editor since the order is important ...

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I like to have TBDs to my text, where in a draft build they are highlighted and in release build they are hidden
The way I do it is
1) wrap the TBD text in a span with a tbd class
2) in my main-styles css the tbd class is styled to "display:hidden", and in the draft.css they are styled to ...

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Flare is generating a file "language.js" which contains the following
define({'skin':{,'HTML5___Top_Navigation':{},'TopNav':{}},'toc':{}});

I'm getting a runtime error in the Chrome debugger

/docs/Data/Language.js?t=636642332693426216:1 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ,
Looks like it's ...

Sorry, I don't like the answer :?

If I copy a <code> </code> block from one topic to another, I expect Flare to simply copy it "as is" -
what happens in practice is that it replaces my carefully placed spaced with tabs......
Flare should have three options in the text editor:
1) keep spacing and ...

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Every file in my generated HTML5 output contains lines such as
<div class="container">
<div class="sidebar">
<div data-sticky-container="" id="umGvcCL_ekq_YGxttMsLuw">
.......
I understand that this has something to do with the scrolling of the sidebar.

My problem is that every build, every ...

OK problem solved

in your "target" got to the advanced tab, and uncheck "Synchronize navigation elements with TOC entries"
that's it - they ugly URL is gone
BUT - if you want to reference the same topic from two places in the ToC - you can't do this.
I suppose the solution is to put the content in ...

I tried to look for the code to change it
I found MadCapAll.js in three places
C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare 13\Flare.app\Resources\WebHelpMobile\Advanced\Resources\Scripts
C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare 13\Flare.app\Resources\WebHelp\Content\SkinSupport
C:\Program ...

It's now 2018 - has this not been solved ?

Just happened to me too - did you ever find a solution?

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I'm using handlebars templates in a topic. This means that I need to insert a template like this.

<script id="params-template" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
{{#myhelper '}}
some content
{{/myhelper }}
</script>

My problem is that when I build the output, Flare is adding CDATA and ...

I use "Grammarly" when I write anything (including this post...), but unfortunately, it does not work with Flare. Does anyone have an automated way to do good quality proofreading? At the moment the best I can do is to copy paste the web output to the Grammarly desktop app.
Thanks

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I'm documenting a tool that has SDK in multiple programming languages (Java, Javascript, Ruby, C++ and more).
I have two challenges:
1. Giving example code for each of the languages. While I could certainly always give every code example in all languages, perhaps using text dropdowns to hide the ...

My flare generated document tree is being served by a server that inserts it into a skin that is common to the entire site.
It is expecting to get all URL references (to other page or to resources) as an absolute path from the top of my tree
/Content/Resource/Images/myImage.png instead of ...

Anyone work out how to scale it ? I need a much small arrow

Oops....
I must have erased it by accident
Thanks that solved the placement problem as well. If I drag it on to a line with only a <p> then it indeed inserts a blovk.
It would have been nice if Flare would detect an illegal snippet (no body)......

Thanks

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I use a snippet to put placeholders in my test where I want to insert image. It is defined like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<html xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd" MadCap:lastBlockDepth="2" MadCap:lastHeight="37" MadCap:lastWidth="718">
<head ...

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I would think that as a minimum Madcap should point out where the key files are:
I followed your second approach and the answer is (so far)
1. rename and copy the following files from the template project to your existing project
a) Content/Home.htm
b) Resources/Stylesheets/StylesForHomePage ...

I've downloaded a template from https://www.madcapsoftware.com/downloads/madcap-flare-project-templates/
But it's not clear to me
1. How do I change an existing project to use this template
2. How do I change the template? I can't find where in the project/Content the various elements on the home ...

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A problem and a question

I want the user to be able to press a link in the text (or perhaps a button), and then play a video in a video element from a given position
I've put the code I'm using below

1) For some reason the id I'm assigning to the video element in the source does not appear in ...

Sorry for the newbie questions...
I'm looking for a quick way to add new elements such as div,p,h1,h2 etc in the XML Editor
Obviously, I can do this manually in the text editor -
In some cases (after a P and an h) doing Enter will add me a <p> and then I use the Syle window on the Home tab to ...

This may be a newbie problem or perhaps it's a bug?

In some cases, not all, when I double click on a topic in the Content explorer it does not open the topic in the XML editor.
Right click open or Doing enter also does not work
right click Open with Firefox does open it...

Restarting Flare cleared ...

Thanks for the replies
I use pen and paper or our bug tracking / backlog system. I don't think the Flare project is the right place for a personal to do list. Just my 2 €.

Maybe I wasn't clear - this isn't a to do list. Just a place holder within the text for something I want to add later at that ...

As I write things keep popping up in my mind, like the need to add a term to a glossary or to reference a "see also".
In order not be distracted I want to add a TBC (to be done aka TBC) - a note to myself that I need to add something later.
The nature of the TBD is
1. I want to be able to search ...

Hi There
When I start a new document, or a new section, I like to brainstorm and make a list of subjects, in some sort of outline hierarchy to get a view of what i want to do.
In Flare these then become content/folder, Topics, Snippets or just headings and paragraphs in a topic/snippet
Does anyone ...