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Well, I gave up. I pretty much did what TechOnTheBrain did.

But first, let me just say that MadCap has NEVER gotten integrated source control working correctly or (nearly) bug free. I had the same type of frustrating issues using Flare for a different company nearly a decade ago. It's pretty damn ...

Left field thought...

...apply the condition to the image in the images folder. I seem to recall it worked in an early version of Flare.
Bingo!

Thanks.

I will add, however, being bound to source control (GitHub), this process created a .props file that Flare asked to add to source control. I ...

Yeah, you can't put a span in the attributes as that wouldn't be valid xml.

Thought experiment: mc-conditions in the style attribute?

Like this. I'm not sure it will work, but it is a valid entry for MC CSS files, so worth a try.

<xhtml:img xhtml:src="../Images/Agari_footer.png" MadCap ...

No. In fact, my whole connection to GitHub and the workflow that once worked seems to have become completely discombobulated. MadCap wants a "call," but I was out for the holidays, then in release crunch, so my ability to get their direct intervention has been postponed.

Psider wrote:Yeah, you can't put a span in the attributes as that wouldn't be valid xml.

Thought experiment: mc-conditions in the style attribute?

Sorry, I'm confused. What style attribute?

I have a page layout where I want to conditionalize all the images. I was able to successfully do so for the images in the header and footer, but not for the image that I used for the page background.

This is the code:

<Page Width="800" Height="800" Padding="20px" PageSize="Letter" PageType ...

I'm getting a "Build failed: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect" error when I try to build a DITA target. A Google search on this message returns no useful or relevant results. Anyone know what might be causing this?

Note that I have not built a DITA target since I ...

How about that. I just started getting this message today, only I'm bound to GitHub, which is what we use, not Central, which we saw no reason to pay extra for.

Seems to have started happening after I changed a couple of filenames. (I wonder if it's also an issue with 2FA, which Flare (still ...

Hmmm...looks like this may have something to do with 2FA (two-factor authorization), which is pretty much standard procedure these days, especially for corporate and development apps.

According to MadCap support, "Two Factor Authenication is currently not supported in Flare."

Ugh

They did send ...

MadCap support tracked down what it looks like the issue was.

In my early testing, I wanted to see what the process would be so that users could have context-sensitive help. I auto-generated alias and header files some time back.

When I created my new target, I used an existing target as a ...

I have a new HTML5 target, and I want to publish it to GitHub, like I have the HTML5 targets for the other 2 help systems.

I started by creating a new destination, and using one of the existing destinations as a template. I changed the destination directory, got all the credentials correct, but ...

For the record, Windows Character Map is your friend, because Flare's Insert Character dialog box doesn't cut it.

Well heck, I actually made some progress. More like two steps forward and one step back, but still....

OK, here goes. FA has several variations. I had installed the solid variant of the TTF on the Windows machine, after uninstalling all of the "free" versions.

Then I found something, I think it ...

Those instructions just have an outdated CDN. If you go to FA's website you can get the correct reference for the version of FA you need. It's no longer a script, but a reference to a css file. I have it working in my Flare project just fine with no special instructions.

Edit: It looks like if you ...

Those instructions just have an outdated CDN. If you go to FA's website you can get the correct reference for the version of FA you need. It's no longer a script, but a reference to a css file. I have it working in my Flare project just fine with no special instructions.

Edit: It looks like if you ...

Well, maybe I should direct my ire to MadCap, but the many, many ways that I have found to make Font Awesome work in Flare, well, it just ain't workin'.

The most recent guide I found was here, from March of this very year: https://www.smartoutput.com/using-fontawesome-in-your-madcap-flare-html ...

Flare support itself claims that only topics linked to in a TOC would be included. I have a project where I know that to not be a fact, and I told them so.

I have a new target output that uses a new TOC that contains references only to a few newly developed topics for a new product. There are zero ...

This works, but I seem to have found a bug. (What's new?)

I created 2 snippets, ProductNameLong and ProductNameShort. In each, I inserted the appropriate variable. In my content, I added the snippet where I wanted a different value that then value used in the target.

Here's where the bug it. In ...

Chuck, would SNIPPET VARIABLES work for you? The help is here:

http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2018/Content/Flare/Variables/Overriding-Variable-Definitions-Snippets.htm
Hmmm....I think it would. It adds a level of complexity, in that I think I'd have to have both snippets and variables named ...

Flare support itself claims that only topics linked to in a TOC would be included. I have a project where I know that to not be a fact, and I told them so.

I have a new target output that uses a new TOC that contains references only to a few newly developed topics for a new product. There are zero ...

Well, I don't know your project, but from what you said, it sounded like the references to product names are fixed - i.e. when you have a reference to Product2, then isn't that reference is always going to be to Product2?
No. Currently, I have just to product name definitions, on "short" and one ...

- Make separate product-specific variable definitions, which kind of defeats the purpose of variables (and makes the variable list longer).

This is what I do, when I refer to a specific product.

It doesn't defeat the purpose of variables. For some of our products, the name changed 3 times in 5 ...

I have come across a situation that I cannot figure out how to easily solve.

In my project, which I use to develop content for (now) 3 products, I use a variable set. Several variables define variations on product names. In the targets for each product, I select the correct variable values.

I'm ...

You mean I shouldn't just expect better IA from the "leading" information development tool? :evil:

The current implementation IS useful, in that you can double-click an instance in the list and it jumps to that place in the topic so you can do what you want in there - very helpful particularly in ...

Apple is bugging me to update Mac OS to Mojave.

I'm using a 2017 MBP with Parallels, Windows 10, and Flare. My project uses GitHub for source control. Does anyone have a similar setup, and if so, have yo updated to Mojave and encountered any issues with using Flare?