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Happy Monday everyone!

If I want to have a footer at the bottom of all my topics for the Help version number and copyright info, what is the best way to do this for WebHelp output? Is it to create a snippet and paste it into each topic as the last paragraph?

Thanks much,
-Steph

I find it a lot easier to see what I'm doing if I have the Show Blocks and Show Spans feature on the the topic editor. Are you using them? With a new snippet open, you can see from the blocks on the left that there is an html, body, and p tag already present. If you typed or pasted text in that ...

Thanks Ramon, I'll give it a try and see what it does. I think my software engineer is going to expect "previous" and "next" buttons within the topic though, so I may be using a belt and suspenders in the end.

Have a great weekend,
-Steph

I'm doing a Help that will have both reference sections and tutorial sections. I'm trying to see what the difference really is between browse sequences and the regular TOC from the user's point of view. From what I gather so far, they look so very similar in the navigation pane.

I was imagining ...

I need to change my name to Confused Newbie for a while!

For a given element, let's say a paragraph, I can right-click and see a list of options. Sometimes that list gives the Style Class option, and sometimes the Paragraph Class option. Sometimes those options show me the same lists, sometimes ...

Hi ktbCA57,

As a newbie with long-time Word person with no HTML or CSS background, jumping into Flare has been a wild ride for me too, you have my sympathy! But it is a really nice "place to work" now that I'm getting the hang of it.

Regarding tables, are you making classes from the table tags in ...

Thanks everyone. I'm reorganizing my files now. I will rename topics to take out the spaces - many of these were created from Word headings so have spaces, and need to be shortened anyway. I will keep it to two levels of subfolders in the Content folder.

This Help output will not be residing on a ...

Thanks for the input, and especially the warning about a possible crash - that would have alarmed me. So far I have moved single topics around, but i have not tried major surgery. I will back up my project first just in case.

Just to double-check, there is no reduced responsiveness in using the ...

Hi all,

If one's Help file has several hundred topics, I am wondering if it is best to keep all of one's topics in the root content folder, or if it is okay to make subfolders to help keep track while working. I have the same questions regarding images - can I put them in subfolders to group all my ...

I am making a Help file for a programming environment, and this is what we do:

1. Create the topic with a PRE tag.
2. Since our code uses the symbols <, >, and & as operators (which are also seen as functional symbols and not content by the html code) , we first do a search and replace of those ...

Thanks for the explanation of how image map coordinates work, LTinker68. That's the kind of thing this newbie doesn't know. I am fairly new to Madcap, CSS, HTML, all of it, and this is my first large project from scratch.

Since in my layout it is the caption text that moves and not the image itself ...

Well, all I found on the Web about IE7 and image map problems were due to missing hashmarks with usemap, and those are present.

But, I did discover something else while experimenting. My mapped images are in a DIV tag along with a couple of paragraphs, and I've made a float: left image class to get ...

Actually, your point was taken. I have just finished downloading Firefox and testing the page, it is working in Firefox and not in IE7 so perhaps this is a bug in IE7, I will go look for help elsewhere on the Web to see if this is a known issue with a known solution since it hasn't been seen here ...

IE functionality is my primary concern, not the last thing to consider, as I am working.

I am developing a Help file for applications that will be fully resident on the end user's PC. These applications require Windows, and will launch the Help file into an encapsulated instance of IE regardless of ...

I'm sorry, I don't understand. When I am using Internet Explorer to view the built output, is that not using a web browser?

HI Ramon,

I'm using IE7...

-Steph

Thanks for the leads, Lisa and Ramon.

I removed the image map, resized the image externally and replaced the file, then remapped it, making sure all of the links are correct and all the topics have the same popup target frame.



Panes 1 and 2 are working. Only the upper half of Pane 4 is working ...

Hi all,

I have a topic with two mapped images. One has six mapped spots for topic popups, they are all in a row on the image like this:

H H H H H H

Everything works as it should.

On the second image, the hotspots are arranged approximately like this:

H
H H
H

However, in previewing or viewing ...

Hi All,

I'm a newbie, using Flare 4.2 with a WebHelp target. I'm used to working in MS Word.

I am trying to make figure captions that auto-number within a topic, so I set up a paragraph class and applied the auto-number and Figure label to it. So far, so good.

Now, I would like to have cross ...