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Hi Eric,

Sorry I misunderstood. Page layouts are applied in the fltoc file.
Select the entry and then choose Properties > Printed output > add a page break and select the layout and type of page.

All the Page Layout selection in the XML viewer does is enable you to preview as you type the output ...

Hi guys,

I was going to ask a question about adding addition spacing around the breadcrumb divider and after the prefix but I've answered my own question. My issue was breadcrumbs just look cramped on the page and I wanted to add a little space between items. So "Home>Subpage" becomes "Home ...

In the TOC entry for the topic, do you have Auto-end on a 'left' page selected (Printed Output tab)? Or is the topic contained within a section that is auto-end of a left page? Flare will auto insert addtional pages when these options are selected. Troubleshooting additional pages can be tricky I've ...

Not sure of the type of document this is, how many graphics are included, what sort of field you're in or what your experience level is with Flare.

There might be some value in a little cleanup in Word first. At the least for heading levels if they haven't been applied correctly. Don't worry about ...

If it was a random thing and not so regular (every 5 rows) I'd have said it was just a display issue in the editor. Does the same occur in your final output? I've seen what appear to be heavier row separators when editing a page but upon output they have not been present. And sometimes vice versa ...

What is in the table style definition? Is there in Rows section a pattern or repeat of 5 rows?
If it is happening with a completely new table, I suspect there is something in the table style that is causing the extra separator.

Cheers,
Rob

How are you inserting a new table?

I find if I click on the Insert Table icon and then specify in the dialog the dimensions and style I get styling for all rows correctly - each cell has the relevant <p> tag inserted
If I drag out a table to the dimensions I want using the little down arrow under ...

Well, that's a matter of preference. I noticed that Flare now likes to put in P tags inside LI elements by default. Seem to remember that you can turn that behaviour off. Personally I'm glad it's there and it saves time for me. I would use multiple P tags inside a LI to add a graphic or a list ...

By default IMG is an inline element (well, a replaced element with a default inline display value). So IMG can live comfortably within a P tag, but they don't have to. My guess is that you should agree what your best practice is, and stick to it for ease of maintenance across your doc set.

I choose ...

From the looks of it that text frame on the first page looks pretty crammed and it doesn't look likely that the text will fit.

Try going to the master page the TOC uses and expanding the Body text frame a little. Once you've got all the text settled on a single page you might find it looks too ...

I once had to do a similar exercise for a project so I feel your pain. When I visited the office of the manager who said it was vital to the project, they had printed the entire help-system-rendered-as-pdf and had it proudly on their bookshelf behind them. Folders and folders of paper that I'm ...

Ahh governments do love their paper don't they...

If you want to go really simple, you could create a PDF target based on your master TOC. With a few pages set up for front/back matter with print-only conditions on them and a few page layouts, you could output the whole shebang as a PDF quite ...

Just to understand... Flare thinks you are using somewhere in the project a condition that isn't defined in the Project Organizer > Conditional Text area? So when you go to build, the build fails?

Have you tried Find Text in the whole project, all file types and in Options choose Find in source ...

Yes, you'll have to increase your mc-auto-number-offset and margin-left to accommodate your largest heading number.
See https://www.madcapsoftware.com/blog/auto-numbering-in-madcap-flare-part-1-how-to-create-legal-style-numbering/

"mc-auto-number-position: outside-head" positions the number ...

Just thinking out loud...

Could the content for each section be a snippet? Then you place the snippet into the overall help topic, and also create separate individual topics for each section containing the same snippet. The GUI calls the individual help topics, the help lists the overall topic and ...

The only thing I can think of is conditions in targetABC accidentally or deliberately excluding all glossary terms in letter I therefore it being empty when it comes to being built. I'd start at the conditions and check if there was something screwy in that target's condition definitions. If you ...

A page layout will fill the columns in the numbered order specified in the page layout. If you open the page layout you'll see arrows indicating direction of text flow.
I use Nita's suggestion in my three column print docs. I know inline is not good, but sometimes it's the easiest and most direct ...

Mine would be to use a transparent png instead of a symbol.
You've a lot of colour and gradient settings in there that may not work on all browsers, let alone whether the symbol itself can be rendered.
If I wanted to guarantee the display of a specialised symbol in a particular colour/size, I'd ...

Hi Niels,

Can you show us the styles you are using? Have you included "page-break-before:avoid;" in your table caption style? Have you tried that in combination with "page-break-after:avoid;" on the table (or using the tried and tested generic .keepwithnext class that includes that style)? My css ...

Can you describe the steps you are taking? If you mean the preview of a topic in the XML editor as either Web (tablet) or Web (Mobile), the menu will not appear. If you're viewing through the target - View (Tablet) function, the menu should be generated (provided your output is up to date and has ...

For output, a minitoc proxy I think is the only way to go unless you're happy to hand copy headings and manually insert links. You could feasibly put together a table or div containing the links. But I think that would be a pain to maintain. Or if you're a coder then perhaps you could create a ...

It's been an issue for some time. Where an image is resized from the original or uses some percent-of-view-portal type setting, the hot spots do not. They are fixed in location. So any resize of the image (or the view window if it resizes the image) will result in the hotspots drifting from their ...

https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... -Links.htm describes the styles you'll need to change to alter the appearance of glossary terms.

Cheers,
Rob

I think what you're asking is to add follow on paragraphs to your list element. I see you've already got your lists as paragraph items (think that's now the default) in that they go <li><p>List text in here</p></li>.
If you put your cursor at the end of item and hit return, you get a new list item ...

Have any topics between Ch1 and Ch 2 (Ch3 in the printed output) mistakenly acquired a chapter break with increment? It's easily done with a unwitting multiple selection in the flare TOC when changing properties - done it myself a few times. Try expanding all in the TOC, selecting all the entries ...