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I did the exact same exercise a month ago on more than 300 topics :cry:
I would love if Flare could do this for you.

However I found a nice tool being able to do a search and replace on multiple lines. This could be a great new feature in Flare
to be able to replace more than one line at a time ...

I'm looking for some guidelines how to use the script function.

I can get the document.write("bla bla...") to work

but something more complex like this:

Dim oFSO
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
is not working?

But then again, this works

Dim oShell
Set oShell ...

Yes I'm pretty sure than I'm missing a <p> tag.

The full level should be <td><ul><li><ul><li><p>


The formatting is like this:


<table>
<tr>
<td>
<ul>
<li>Text 1<ul><li><p>Text 2</p></li><li><p>Text 3</p></li></ul></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</table>


-cpede

And I just found out. The lastModified date is in fact the date when the project is build or previewed.
This is ofcause not what I want, I want the date when the last changes was made to the document,
and not when the help ot PDF was generated.

-cpede

The depth of the vertical block is sometimes not wide enough. See attached image.

How to make the block wider?

-cpede

Thanks for the code

My only problem is that this seems to work only for Web Help (probably also HTML Help),
but not for PDF outputs

Somehow the interpreter is bypassing the script in PDF. Any workaround for this problem?

-cpede

Can anyone give me some simple script samples for MadCap Flare.

I was trying somethign simple like this:

document.write("Test Text");

But nothing happens?

Does scripts only work in HTML/WebHelp and not in PDF?

-cpede

Hi,

When looking in the System Variables I'm missing the "LastSavedDate" as in Word in the MadCap Flare list.
How do I get the last saved date of the current topic?

I was trying maybe to create a script that could do this from the variable "SourceFile", but dident succeed.

-cpede

We are using the templates more and more. This means that general stylesheets, topics etc. are placed in the templates.
This works fine. Now we wanted to put Skins in the template as well. However the Caption of the output window is a part of the skin.
If we leave the Caption blank, we just get the ...

We do this during out automatic build:

*We define a variable in Vault e.g. BuildNumber and set it to <ChangedByAutoBuild> in the Vault environment.
* During the automatic build before the Vault build we replaced the occurrence of the variable <ChangedByAutoBuild>
in the variables xml file with the ...

You are right. That was actually what I did, but I only looked in the UI in Flare, and here it is not correct.
But, when doing a preview of the topic it is correctly positioned :-)

Now my next problem is, that I want the number to vertically centered to the formula.
I tried vertical-alignment ...

I thought about that. But to make it easy I want to have a style like "p.Formula".
And I don't know if it is possible to write css that makes a 2 column table in a
paragraph style?

But, why does the "float-right" style for the number formatting span tag not
float the text right?

Does anyone have ...

Well I want to bump this.
How to do a one-line formatting with auto-numbering?

cpede

I believe that this is the same problem I have with the SourceGear Vault integration.

I simply does not work in MadCap, even SourceGear Vault complies to all known VSS API
standards etc.

Somehow MadCap managed to implement a very dedicated source control logic.

-cpede

No unfortunately not.

And I can add, that our customers are very frustrated about this, since the WebHelp is a nice and flexible thing.

I still believe that the MadCap staff should spend some time trying to integrate the results (help files, HTML, WebHelp etc.) in various solutions,
like C++, C ...

No,

I managed to get MadCap and SourceGear technical support to talk together. And they exchanged some
emails, but did not come up with a solution.

As far as I remember it ended up with SourceGear tested their code with Flare, and found that even the
most common VSS calls did not work. And ...

Hi,

1. I'm not asking for anything here since you corrected the bug in v6. My point was that it required 6 versions before you discovered that HTMLHelp could not use skins; it was only working for WebHelp etc. And HTMLHelp is primarily used by application developers, I believe.
2. That would be ...

Thanks for the answer.

I have of cause read the help file and found the section you mention. My problem is that, yes it is mentioning two methods;
the jscript and the URL. Since I try to call my context sensitive help from a C++ program, it is not easy to call a
jscript method (as far as I know ...

Sorry to bump this.

But someone out there must have an answer for this. How do I force the context help to
re-use the already open browser window/pane ??

-cpede

Hi,

I did not really find an answer here. I use C++ and call the WebHelp using a URL, like:
www.myserver.com/webhelp/default_csh.htm#ID
where the ID is from my alias file.

This works, but it opens a new browser window every time. I would like the same browser window to be used
for all my ...

The question is not as much what program I use, but why the PDF conversion fails in Flare?
It is my own program that generates PNG files using the ImageGear library. If seems
that different kinds of PNG files exist, and I'm generating one that cannot be converted.
The funny thing is, that when using ...

No the visual contents of the two PNGs is excactly the same. The file sizes however are different, indicating that the two
PNGs contains either different compressions or a different number of RGB and Alpha channels?
If you try to use the two files in Flare as a PDF target only one of them works ...

It seems that my favorite program is generating "wrong" PNG files.

The PNGs are however perfectly displayed in HTML Help and all other application I uses, but when placing them in a topic
and generating a PDF output the images are gone from the output?

If I take the PNG image and open it in MS ...

Show markers did the trick, thanks.

-cpede

I'm using PageLayouts, and until now I have only sed one Decoration frame on each page. Now I added another one and observed that I got a flow from the first to the second.

1) I dont want that flow since my decorations are for "fixed" text. How do I remove a flow?

2) When I'm writing something (F2 ...