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chuck_agari

Yes! Thank you. A second set of eyes is so incredibly valuable. One of the issues of being a lone writer....

I actually found the brackets issue already. And what's weird is that I thought I had copied the Javascript call and pasted it into my code ,so I wonder how I managed to mangle it. It all ...

chuck_agari

My local community college (CCSF) recently started offering a class on Javascript libraries. Once I finish the XML & JSON class I'm taking this semester, I plan to take Javascript next spring (to refresh my knowledge, plus gaps, and learn what's new with the language), and the take the libraries ...

chuck_agari

Awesome. Thanks Dave, that worked perfectly. And now that I've done it, I'm not sure I want it because the content experience now is that users will almost never see the topic name in the tab because tabs aren't rendered long enough for the content they contain. I may go back.

Couple of other ...

chuck_agari

More info: I found this: https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2018/Content/Flare/CSH/Providing-Developer-with-Header-File.htm

This confuses me more than enlightens me. Apparently, Flare outputs header file types for C/C++, Visual Basic(!), Java, and Delphi Pascal(!!!). Nothing seems appropriate for ...

chuck_agari

I'm trying to build a demo for our developers. I created a basic web page to show off various ways that (HTML5) help can be called, intending to recommend Javascript. But the two instances I have, one does not work at all, and one opens the help system, but does not go to the identified topic.

I ...

chuck_agari

But wait! There's more!

Turns out that meta tag is what was putting that line of text at the top, above the heading. I commented it out and it disappeared.

I also realized that I didn't need jQuery to do what I wanted. So it tried this:

<head>
<!-- <meta id="prodname"><MadCap:variable name ...

chuck_agari

But this is where my Javascript skills get rusty. Based on the above, and with a bit of extra research, I tried this:

<meta class="prodname"><MadCap:variable name="Variables.Product Name (short)" /></meta>
<script type="text/javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/
$(document).ready(function(){
$(document ...

chuck_agari

But this is where my Javascript skills get rusty. Based on the above, and with a bit of extra research, I tried this:

<meta class="prodname"><MadCap:variable name="Variables.Product Name (short)" /></meta>
<script type="text/javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/
$(document).ready(function(){
$(document ...

chuck_agari

I had shrunk the height of the header, giving it just 10px of padding at the top and bottom. (I'm, a big proponent of minimizing eye candy and maximizing screen real estate for content.) After I wrote my last post, I went ahead and added this class to my CSS:

.helpheader
{
font-family: "Open Sans ...

chuck_agari

I went looking in the latest knowledge base ( https://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Welcome.htm ) but came up short. You might have to pitch this one to MadCap. Speaking totally anecdotally, my read of the user base is that not many Flare users are outputting to FrameMaker. They are importing ...

chuck_agari

Hi Dave, I gave this a try and it did not result in what I expected. Also, a niggling issue.

First, I used Jeanne's code change. The idea was to have the logo followed by text. In theory, it worked, but the positioning is wonky. The text is too close to the logo, and it is not centered vertically ...

chuck_agari

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I get this immediately upon trying to build a FrameMaker target. The only thing I found about this was an older post here that referred to a MC KB article that no longer exists.

chuck_agari

You need to make sure you've wrapped the relevant rows in <tbody> tags, as this won't be done by default
Every table I've added in Flare via the Insert > Table feature contains tbody tags.

I think Alex's method wraps every row in tbody, and the colour is applied on the tbody not the tr.
While I ...

chuck_agari

I have a glossary in Confluence that part of our (nascent) style guide. I thought I'd migrate it to Flare, now that I have everything in a single content repository. But when I added my first glossary term, I faced a choice that had my stymied: text or topic.

Text I assume becomes part of the XML ...

chuck_agari

AlexFox wrote:You need to make sure you've wrapped the relevant rows in <tbody> tags, as this won't be done by default

Every table I've added in Flare via the Insert > Table feature contains tbody tags.

chuck_agari

Yes. Changing the original to this:

table.agari_settings tr:nth-child(odd)
{
background: #FFFFFF;
}

Makes an all-white table. Much better for print, I think, that alternating colors.

chuck_agari

It can add a little more work when putting a table together, but using tbody:nth-child(odd) and tbody:nth-child(even) will reliably alternate your shading. It worked for me in PDF the last time I tried it :)
This did not work. I added this to my CSS:

table.agari_settings tbody:nth-child(even ...

chuck_agari

Hm, I must have missed that. Twice. And I'm guessing that the default isn't "all files," which to me is sub-optimal.

chuck_agari

No, there's no option to select types of files. Yes, I selected the check box to import linked files. Ah well, I figured I'd have to do some cleanup anyway.

chuck_agari

Well that's weird. I did the create an empty project and then import both style, creating sub-folders for content in the 2nd project before I did the move to alleviate overwriting. Neither the TOCs not the targets from wither project were imported.

I suppose I can just copy the files in Explorer ...

chuck_agari

Cool beans. Thanks for all the tips. I'll give 'em a try.

I should note that I used this nifty site (https://divtable.com/table-styler/) to create the table styling I wanted. The nth-child CSS for just the one selector is what I got out if it for alternating tables. And while it works fine for ...

chuck_agari

Hey, it occurs to me that you might more easily restructure Project B before importing. Assuming you have Resources and Topics folders AND that Project B isn’t too huge, you can probably get away with renaming them to Resources_B and Topics_B (and updating links when prompted). Again, the point is ...

chuck_agari

Nita, certainly it's true that there's not much overlap. Mostly in the "common assets," as you say, but there will be content common to all as well. I know in the two projects I have, there's one whole section that I simply topic the topics from one project to another.

Because our products are ...

chuck_agari

So far in Flare, I've been working in two separate projects, one for each product. Each product has two outputs, which means conditions, variable sets with multiple definitions, etc. And of course this all means as the projects mature, the changes I make in one I have to make sure I make in the ...

chuck_agari

Dave Lee wrote:I've not tried the OTF, but since you already have it installed then why not just try it out?

I am. It's not working in PDF targets.

Dave Lee wrote:FontAwesome 4.7 included a TTF - don't know about v5.
https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/

We've upgraded to 5.x.

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