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Never mind, I found it: http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2017r3/Content/Flare/z/Viewing-Files-With-Changes.htm

Of course, using it, I found 3 significant issues (do far):
1. There's a "Title" column. That column is empty. It actually doesn't used the title in a topic. Then again, the "title" in ...

If you have a function that is explicitly explained in the UI as "exclude content not linked directly or indirectly from target," then when that function is selected, the target production should do exactly that.

Bear in mind it's "directly or indirectly ", so your output will include everything ...

Never mind, I found it: http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2017r3/Content/Flare/z/Viewing-Files-With-Changes.htm

Of course, using it, I found 3 significant issues (do far):
1. There's a "Title" column. That column is empty. It actually doesn't used the title in a topic. Then again, the "title" in ...

Well, I never use the "Exclude content..." option, because you never really know what it may or may not exclude.
That sounds very much like a bug, and a not insignificant one. A setting should do exactly as it promises.

It's not a bug.

My point is that without building and inspecting your ...

I'm using the Track Changes feature in Flare. As one of my last tasks before I produce a PDF, I want to search for all topics that have unaccepted changes. How do I do that?

Dave Lee wrote:Well, I never use the "Exclude content..." option, because you never really know what it may or may not exclude.

That sounds very much like a bug, and a not insignificant one. A setting should do exactly as it promises.

In seeing an article for a Mac software bundle deal, I spotted this software called CrossOver: https://www.codeweavers.com/products

It claims to "Run Microsoft Windows software on your Mac without buying a Windows license, rebooting or using a virtual machine. CrossOver Mac makes it easy to launch ...

Thanks Nita, those look like some very interesting tips.

A FB friend who is using Flare on a team 4x the size of mine (that is, 4 people), said that she thought Central was overkill for her org, and that she just distributes PDFs. Kinda made me rethink whether Central was necessary where I am. So ...

Forgive the ignorance, but couldn't you just never check them in in the first place after you create them?
As I understand how Git works, specifically within Flare, Flare/Git monitors all changes within the project, and all pending changes must be committed before Flare can synchronize with the ...

Is it possible to exclude specific files from source control management (Git/GitHub, in this case) from within Flare? I have a number of files in my project, such as review targets and the TOCs that I use for them, that simply don't need to be in source control.

When I right-click on one of these ...

Any suggestions on how I could code a CSS file and design a PageLayout to duplicate an existing PDF? Specifically, this one: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/security/phishing_protection-and-domain_protection/app_user_guide.pdf

Despite their promise to send me their FrameMaker templates ...

Yeah, that's what I did--or tried to do. I had 2 files that I had finished with, so I wanted to synchronize those to the remote repository, while other files I was still working on for other Jiras.

The latter, I'm still tracking changes on, and I don't want any files with tracked changes in the ...

OK, I hate Git. Most everyone I have every talked to hates Git. Yet it's still used, seemingly everywhere. So I muddle along.

I was able to get my Flare project successfully in Git, GitHub, to be exact. It's not the fastest, to be sure, largely because I'm on a MBP in Parallels and my project is on ...

It's not about the output. It's about the search results.

I have two separate outputs, which I generate from a single content repository. While I've done only one test, when I am viewing one set of (HTML5) output and search for a very specific string that appears only once and only in a topic in ...

Never mind--I think we found the problem.
Not sure I'll get a response from the OP this many years later, but....

I'm doing the exact same thing, one content repository, multiple targets, each with its own TOC, almost all topics links in the TOC are exclusive to those TOCs, yet selecting the ...

Would it not be a lot quicker just to set up a new page layout in Flare, rather than trying to manually edit the raw XML of the page layouts?
I only went to look at the raw XML to confirm what I was seeing on the page layout page (from the department of redundancy department). I mean, that's what ...

Well, good luck. You're treading new ground :)
It's what I do. :)

Seriously, I find working with dumbed-down products annoying. Screen real estate-wasting ribbons are just one example. And why, pretty much no matter what content development tool I've worked with over the years, I've had to dig ...

It can be a bit tricky spotting things in code like this, so I suggest you compare the HTML pages in something like Beyond Compare and see if you can identify the differences for the entire page layout. You might find that there is a tiny difference between the page that works properly and the page ...

I have a page layout with 4 pages: normal, first, title, and empty. I use only the first two. In the header of the normal page, I define a bottom border in the frame.

Today, when building a PDF, the bottom border disappeared, and I can't figure out why.

I realized that I can't conditionalize ...

I personally wouldn't publish the output to source control.

People tend to want to do it so they can get a specific output when they need it, but you can do that from the source if necessary. Plus, you have to manually check out the output before you can publish. And you can get conflicts, which ...

The latter seems like, once it was set up and configured, it might work perfectly--except I think Flare always deletes an output folder and re-creates it when it re-builds a target. This brief...disruption...seems to have totally confounded Github Desktop when I tried using it to sync an output ...

I've run across a couple of discussions that I think might be related, but I am highly unqualified to understand them because I am barely peripherally familiar with S3. And yet, it looks like, because our company's applications are hosted on S3, we're going to use s3 (or S3 buckets, I think the ...

Well, I filed a bug. I got a response asking me to run in administrator mode.

Which introduced a different issue. My project is stored on the shared VM drive so I can access the files, generally the output, directly on my MBP. When I started Flare in admin mode, I was not able to "see" any of the ...

And that info about what the developer actually needs from a header file, well gee, shouldn't that be in the product documentation?

I may be wrong - perhaps there is a workflow where developers can directly consume the header file for something, but it's not something I've ever come across.

I've ...