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This tip I wrote a few years ago is still relevant and is a pretty robust PDF watermark method: viewtopic.php?t=30056

This looks like you are mapping images as External Resources, which you don't need to do unless they are collaborative files stored on some network mapped drive or similar. Just drag the image into your actual Flare Resources/Images folder and it should never go anywhere, unless you use source ...

The only time this has sometimes happened to me is if I've forgotten to put a class on the image or resize it and it has a large native size. Sometimes it'll be in my output cropped but sometimes it doesn't appear at all, this isn't 100% replicable however.

Yes this is possible, you will have to assign an ID to your icon and use some jQuery.

The following code should be put in (or called from) any template page that should have the "hidden" search bar:


$(document).ready(function() {
$('#SEARCH_BAR').appendTo('#SEARCH_POPUP');
$('#SEARCH_ICON ...

This is definitely an out of scope question for these forums, but MadCap Central does allow SSO authentication, the only problem is it only allows one IDP to be connected, which typically would be your organisation.

This is a big gap in Central functionality in my view, but that's a different ...

A cursory google search suggests this error may be due to an invalid space in an xml tag i.e. <tag > instead of <tag>, but this is just best guess.

Have you right clicked the TOC and edited it at all?

Also, is the TOC at topic level or template page level?

I found this thread while looking for a solution to a problem that's similar to the one in this thread. My problem was that the PDF output was repeating a background icon twice. Not more than twice, though.

I tried replacing the background properties that were specified individually with the ...

This might well be related to the "Auto-end on 'left' page" setting in the TOC (right click on the topic, Printed Output).

It's a little bit more than you asked for, but I dug around and this stackoverflow answer offers a solution, albeit it utilises a grid display for the list and you need to change the alignment from right to left:


ol {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: min-content auto;
}

li {
display ...

Yeah you can't do this. I can see how it would be useful and I have been frustrated by ConditionalText many times over the years. There is even a paid third-party solution designed for bulk creation of targets based on different conditional expressions: https://www.tbro.dk/

I do wish the advanced ...

Curious if you discovered any other commands that work? Specifically things like running imports or some of Flare's built-in reports?

Thanks!


Did you maybe post about this on Slack? I did try some things out to see if I could get it to work and ultimately there is little support for command ...

This looks to me like it's the double digits forcing the icon to be pushed to the left. Can you increase the right margin for the list?

Do you have Git for Windows installed? There seems to be a variety of problems with Flare's own Git implementation. If you go to File > Options > Source Control Flare will tell you if you have a Git for Windows installation it can use or give you a link to install it. You can pretty much keep all ...

Please share the fix here if possible, just in case others stumble across this thread with the same problem

Have you considered trying to use an <iframe> or something more modern like <object>?

Have you tried checking this in the Advanced tab of the Target?

Hi,

Mattias is the owner of ImprovementSoft and makes several MadCap plugins, you should be able to contact him at mattias@improvementsoft.com

Ah apologies, I thought perhaps that you were a bit further ahead in editing PageLayouts.


Add a Decoration Frame to your PageLayout, and click it, press F2 and click No.
You'll then see a window open up to edit the Frame contents with a paragraph block in by default.
Type something unique in ...

You can do this with variables, just note that you won't see any images rendered at all in the PageLayout until you build the output.

Just use something like this:
<img src="../path/to/barcodes/[%=Barcodes.BarcodeType%]">

Then create a VariableSet called Barcodes with a variable BarcodeType set ...

Oh boy, I could talk about this for a while, but here's a few ideas off the top of my head....


XML editor needs to have better support for more modern web standards such as flex and grid, so you can more accurately see how your content will look in the final output.
I'd like a native option to ...

I can only comment to say the lack of comments probably gives you your answer :(

I've had to recently use the Word importer many times for existing help files I need to convert into Flare and it's disappointing how limited it is - particularly around the fact that I'm restricted to hardcoded styles ...

If you drag the TOC over your "main" Flare window, you should see some layout buttons appear.

Drag the TOC onto the folder icon and it'll dock as a tab in that window.

Do you use source control? If so you could create a User condition tag set and add it to your .gitignore so each author can maintain their own version of the set, which could then be used in meta tags.

Crikey. Add this to the list of incredibly frustrating areas where Flare is several years behind the industry standards. I really do worry that the SaSS offerings are getting so much better and Flare seems to be frozen in time...