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Hi Laura,

Thanks! You jogged my memory. I have a proxy topic file set up for the printed TOC output as well. I assigned the h1. HeadingNoNum class to the h1 style in that file and it fixed the issue with the Table of Contents title having a number to the left in the printed output.

Sigh...

I ...

Very nice. I like it. Thanks so much. Once the class is created, I just have to right-click on the H1 block in the XML editor and select the H1 style class h1.HeadingNoNum.

One thing I did not notice before though is that the Table of Contents for the book that is automatically generated by the ...

Hi Lisa,

THANK YOU! That worked! Yea!

I had tried to set the autonumber format using the Properties dialog box that was associated to the book entries in the print TOC, but it wasn't working and I was stumped. (On the Printed Output tab of the Properties dialog box, I had specified to start a new ...

Eric,

Your suggestion as written does not work.

As for your implication, that I have not read the Flare documentation - I find that laughable.

I have scoured Flare's online Help regarding printed output, reading it over and over again until I am numb. I have read, reread, and then read again the ...

Hi Eric,

Yes. Thanks. That does help. Knowing that the location of the chapter title page topic that contains the mini TOC in the source Help structure (content explorer pane) does not matter made me try a few other things.

In order to get chapter numbers to appear to the left of the chapter ...

Thanks Eric,

I'm having a bit of trouble doing this and am not able to a mini toc to appear in the printed output...

Do each of the chapter title page topics (that contain a mini-toc proxy) have to be stored:

- at a top-level in the Help project content explorer pane (at the same level as all the ...

Is there any way to in a print TOC to automatically have all your top-level books that are not associated to Help topics converted to chapter title pages using the book title as the title of the chapter page.

I would like to be able to link all these top-level chapter pages to a single mini-toc ...

Hi Margaret,

Thanks for responding (and for the warning about the bloviating)...

Figuring out how to use Flare's printed documentation features has not been easy.

Is there a way to do this for Microsoft Word output?

When I do this and try to generate a Word document, I get this error message:

The "text" page number format is not supported in Word or Frame outputs. "Arabic" will be used instead.

The resulting output shows just a page number, not the ...

Hi Laura,

That shouldn't be an issue.

In RoboHTML X5, you can use their printed documentation wizard to specify that you want to use the style definitions defined in your .css file when generating the output or specify the Microsoft Word template .dot file you are going to be using if you would ...

Hi Margaret,

Thanks for responding. I can't believe Madcap doesn't have a feature that would enable you to map Flare styles to MS Word styles when you go to generate the output, espcically if they are now at version 6 of the product. That to me is a necessary tool for any company that has ...

Is there any way for me to map the styles in our Flare css file to the styles defined in a Microsoft Word .dot template file when we generate MS Word printed output from Flare source?

Our MS Word documents are all associated to our department's MS Word template (a .dot file) that has all the styles ...

Thanks for sharing this information.

I'm a bit confused though. Mike Hamilton's email led me to believe that this functionality was included in the interface for Flare 6. Your information seems to be a workaround to get functionality to work that is not included as an option in the interface.

Are ...

Hi Mike,

Thanks for responding.

Great news that you are continuing to make enhancements to your DotNet Help.

Unless I am mistaken, I do not see anything in the Flare Version 6 Help topic titled "What's New in This Version" regarding changes to DotNet Help in Version 6. I have also scoured the ...

I now have Madcap Flare Version 6, and find myself as I have for the past several releases of Flare, totally frustrated with the lack of development effort that has been given by Madcap to Dot Net Help.

This output type, which they once touted, has been consistently neglected from release to ...

What is the mechanism used to hook up context-sensitive Help in C# (sharp) applications?

What do we provide to developers and what do developers need to do to take advantage of the Dynamic Help and Run-Time Merge Help in C# applications?

When programming in C # (sharp), our developers do not use ...

Thanks for the info Alex. We are facing a major crossroads at our company regarding Help.

If Madcap can fix the issues with customizing the DotNet Help viewer soon, we would be very happy.

..We'd be thrilled if they provide us with an output option for the DotNet Help viewer to distribute a ...

Already submitted a bug. Submitting bugs and enhancement requests is standard procedure. People know to do that and are fully aware of the politics that goes on at companies when decisions are made about what bugs to fix.

People come to the forums in the hopes that someone has a workaround to ...

Sorry, but the fact that they are on version 5 (!) of the product and you cannot remove the text "Madcap Flare V5" from the titlebar of the Help viewer window and replace it with your own product's Help name, you can't get rid of the link to the Madcap Help forum for technical writers from the ...

Does anyone know when it is anticipated that we will be able to customize the DotNet viewer?? I am using Version 5.1 and it still does not seem possible that you can do anything to the viewer, even something as small as customizing the buttons that appear on the toolbar.

I'm not sure the toolbar ...

We, too, would love it if you could provide DotNet Help so that it was distributable as a single file (like a chm file) rather than having to provide content with directories of files. We need the ability for customers to view our Help which is stored on a server rather than on the client computer ...

FYI - I ended up requesting information on this issue from Flare Tech Support. They said that you cannot position the label text for a toolbar icon. If you provide a label in version 4.0, it will appear on top of the icon image. Their suggested workaround is to create an icon image that has label ...

The project and all files are local. Nothing has been set to read-only. I can edit and save the files with no problems. I just can't get the setting to stick...

Nope. Eventually we will, but not now.

I have a new project where I created a topic, opened up the Properties dialog box from the Content Explorer, deselected the checkbox, and then clicked OK.

I then immediately open up the Properties dialog box again and see that it has been reset to selected ...

In Flare 4.0, I am brining up the Properties dialog box for a topic that is listed in the Content Explorer. I would like for this topic not to be included in the search in our WebHelp output.

On the Topic Properties tab of the Properties dialog box, I am deselecting the checkbox for "Include topic ...