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Curlyshell

I've been using Flare for almost 5 years. Those were some dicey beginnings! Now I support three different products with online user help and will soon start a fourth.

I use the same targets, the same settings, the same skins. Not sure how much those have changed since 2019, but I've been ain't ...

Curlyshell

I'm wondering since I'm using a non-standard folder to backup if I can exclude \Analyzer and \Output folders from my backup using the method form the Microsoft link. Besides the file lock error, some files in those folders have odd names that cause issues with my OneDrive backups.

Hmm...I ...

Curlyshell

Well I have a general solution, though not necessarily one for creating builds on SharePoint. Here's what I understand to be true:

OneDrive is locking the files to sync, and not unlocking them.
If you use OneDrive as your backup, well you sure as heck want OneDrive to continuously sync.
The ...

Curlyshell

I had this problem with OneDrive and I found a solution that worked for me. Instead of pausing OneDrive for all files I just turned of the sync for Flares Output folder. This doesn't do any harm since I don't even use that folder. Doing this solved the build problem I had. :D

1. Open OneDrive ...

Curlyshell

IMO essential software needs to play nicely with OneDrive.

I won't move my Flare projects out of Documents or opt out of regular backups. That's a recipe for disaster/getting fired.

And this wasn't happening before the latest update.

I, too, will submit a bug. Dear Readers, please do the same if ...

Curlyshell

This is happening to me frequently but sporadically. The guilty folder is in Output\...\Temporary\HTML5 (or PDF).

Today I could open a page preview one time, but not a second time. This makes me think Flare is opening files and not releasing them when they're closed.

Closing and reopening Flare ...

Curlyshell

Am I just shaky, or does anyone else have a terrible time moving docked tabs right & left without having them escape and become undocked?

Why can I move tabs around on my browsers with ease, but not move a tab in Flare?

When it falls out of the tab, why can't I just put it back in so long as I don ...

Curlyshell

Ouch! Did you report the bug?

https://www.madcapsoftware.com/feedback/bugs/

Curlyshell

In the years since I last visited this thread, I've learned to be OK with the <p> tags by embracing @doc_guy 's solution. It never hurts to have a style for <p> tags within tables, since there's always a chance you'll need multiple paragraphs in a table. So I styled it the way I wanted and no more ...

Curlyshell

Apparently, I was using the wrong system variable. It should have been System.SourceFile. As in:

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<a href=https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/mysurvey?[%=System.SourceFile%]>Give Feedback!</a>

I hope this is useful to someone.

Curlyshell

I have a user help feedback survey in SurveyMonkey.

I'd like to link to the survey from every topic in user help.

It would be totally awesome if I could identify the page from which the link was clicked by passing along the topic file name in the survey's URL. SurveyMonkey tells me the basics of ...

Curlyshell

In my various experiments, I had placed the GA code in the master page and then commented it out. That seems to have been the source of the trouble. When I removed the commented-out text altogether, the code was rendered in the remaining pages without being commented out.

I don't understand it ...

Curlyshell

Flare is commenting out my Google Analytics code. In the text editor it looks like this (read code replaced w/ ASDF):


<script async="async" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=ASDF"></script>
<script>
window.dataLayer = window ...

Curlyshell

Is it better to have the Google Analytics tag in the <head> or <body>?

I'm asking because putting it in the Master Page is so very convenient (and much cleaner), but places the tag into the body.

I've seen posts from power users who say using the Master Page is just fine. Will it still be fine ...

Curlyshell

I got the answer from Support:

The <p> tags in bullets is a bug: #163814.
I'm dealing with that as described above: I map the List Bullet style from Word to a unique style made for this purpose. Bedbug is nice and entertaining, or use the curse word of your choice. Fun to eradicate.

The image ...

Curlyshell

This post started with unwanted <p> tags in lists, but there's more.

I'm using Flare 2021 r3 and attempting a Word import. In past versions, we could modify the import file using a text editor and map styles to our hearts' content. Now that ability is gone, gone, gone. Why? How do we get around it ...

Curlyshell

Glad you found it helpful! I'm not seeing this until after the weekend so it's probably too late - but there's no need at all to make the filenames unique! It's just like regular files on your computer: if the files are in different folders, then they are considered separate entities and can't ...

Curlyshell

@doloremipsum, that is brilliant advice!

Let me add the following:

First, I have to distinguish what comes to me separately (groups of chapters) from what I want to keep separate (main manual vs. appendices). So in addition to following doloremipsum's excellent advice (A separate project for ...

Curlyshell

I imported a large Word document, then learned that there was maybe three times as much material in "appendices," which actually all traveled together as one giant PDF.

So I need to import the new material and decide how to keep it. Here are my questions:

If some new section titles are identical ...

Curlyshell

So did you try it? Inquiring minds want to know!

Curlyshell

Yes, thank you! I mis-processed your advice the first time and thought it would suck in files that weren't in the TOC at all.

This worked!

Curlyshell

Just in case...did you render the output to make sure it's not an artifact of the preview editor?

Curlyshell

Awesome insight, thank you!!

Curlyshell

Thank you both.

Unfortunately, I do keep track of which medium I'm altering. In fact, the bloat in my stylesheet includes (brace yourself) an ENTIRE duplicate @media print!

If there are contradictory definitions, Flare takes the last of them. But some of the elements are split. For example if I ...

Curlyshell

Great job!!

One of the necessary steps before importing is to find random text stylized as headers. Next time...in Word, you can ctrl-F to open the sidebar and choose "Headers," then eyeball the entire hierarchy for headers that are blank or look like part of the text.

Things that are benign in ...

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