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In a happier world I could just change the target and mostly use conditionals to set blocks of material as "large screen only" or "phone/tablet only." But after five years of using Flare the big boss rejected the idea of using the output that way.

It wasn't clear to me what is different about the ...

If the targets are completely identical, then you could use a project import (also called global project linking).

So you'd have a master/parent project with the target, and each child project would have a project import that imports the target (*.fltar) file.
The import can be run manually, or run ...

There's no way of doing that in Flare itself - getting one topic to automatically join/load the next.

But you could just have one very long topic, and you can set up the TOC to automatically insert the sub-headings from the topic.

If anyone is still struggling with this - I found none of the above solutions to work, but this suggestion in Stack Overflow did work:

"The @font-face rule can have “font-family” defined as any name. However, I recommend using the default name seen in Flare. You can find out what name Flare is ...

If you just don't want the log file to be put in the output folder, you can change where log files are saved in File > Options > Build > Log Destination.

This works for regular builds, but I haven't checked that it works for madbuild too.

How can I get breadcrumbs to show for each TOC? (Not just the primary)


I'm afraid you can't do this.
Flare's breadcrumbs will only show the item's location in the target's primary TOC.
The breadcrumbs proxy doesn't have a setting like the menu proxy, where you can select an associated TOC (to ...

I'm still using FontAwesome 4.7, and it works fine for me in PDFs using Flare 2023r2.

As Nita mentions, you need to install the TTF file in Windows for all users.

I can't comment on later versions of FA or how you set them up.

Yes to both questions.

(1) If you haven't created your own custom search results page, you need to do that first. Create a topic and insert a search results proxy. See https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2019r2/Content/Flare/Proxies/Creating-Search-Results.htm.

* Also make sure your search ...

It looks like the file RevHistory.htm is not being included in the output, so Flare is telling you it can't create a link to the file.

Apart from conditions, a file can also be "excluded" by the target setting Advanced > Content to include / For example, if you choose Content linked directly from ...

I do not have a custom search results page so I guess no proxy is required. Please let me know what I am doing wrong.

The search results skin is used to style the search results proxy. So if you don't have a topic in your project with a search results proxy, then you're not actually using the ...

The definition that you have set in the variable file can be overridden in a target, or in a snippet.
So I'd guess someone changed that without you knowing.

To check this:

* In your target, check the Variables tab.

* If the variable is used in a snippet, open the topic where you have inserted the ...

Yep, perhaps give examples of the actual HTML code in and around the h1 tag.
Also, what CSS is applied to the h1 - does it use anything special like applying autonumbers (mc-autonumber-) or conditions (mc-conditions)?

Lastly, you mention "After building and publishing..." - so just to check, have ...

I wish MadCap would just spend a year fixing this and the other quite major bugs and performance issues in their software.

It would be far more beneficial than some of the new features they've been releasing lately - both 2023 releases are particularly underwhelming.

Anyway, I guess if everyone ...

The < and > symbols are reserved characters in XHTML, so you need to use &lt; and &gt; in the code.
When you paste in the XML Editor view, Flare converts that for you.

I'd agree that the formatting looks over complicated - there's a table, two divs, a pre tag, and code tag.
So how are you copying ...

Yep, if you look st the system variables, there's one for the current page's filename: System > SourceFile

If you mean having both the Top Nav menu (drop down menu) and a Side Nav menu (accordion menu) displayed together, then Flare doesn't allow you to do that.

As jimgilliam mentions, you can use the Top Nav skin and insert a menu proxy, but that inserts a static menu which is not collapsible.
Now ...

You can install 2023 alongside 2021, so presumably you're opening 2021 instead of 2023.

I don't think 2021 is smart enough to hide the update notification.

When you select Use TOC depth for heading levels , you also need to set the mc-heading-level on your heading styles.
For example:

h1 { mc-heading-level: 1; }
h2 { mc-heading-level: 2; }
h3 { mc-heading-level: 3; }

See: https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2023/Content/Flare/Proxies/TOCs/Editing ...

I know Warnings and Ignored Warnings can be ignored, but the number of Ignored Warnings are counting up and I can't find the reason for that. I would say about me to know how to program HTML, but apparently there is something wrong.
Is there any way I could find out what causes these Ignored ...

Melodie has already given a solution to the question.

First create an individual template/master page for each section, and set the topics in each section to use that template/master page. See: https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2023/Content/Flare/Template-Pages/Template-Pages.htm

Then in each ...

Have you asked the folks that manage your online doc center?

Presumably your online doc center is hosted on a web server, so I would check with the folks that manage that server, and ask them why users could be seeing old versions of files.

It sounds like it could be due to caching - the cache can ...

Basically, it doesn't work because you can't use any of the MadCap| styles combined with other tags in complex selectors (at least not in most cases).

Not your fault for not knowing, as I don't think I've seen this documented anywhere officially.

It works in the editor because the tags in the ...

I've checked CPU/RAM/disk usage when it happens, and it can occur when the PC is running well within its limits.

For me, it's usually a cumulative problem that builds up over time - once it starts happening, it seems to steadily get more frequent in that session. So I'm thinking it's a code issue ...

You see the Side Nav menu when you use a HTML5 skin and set the Main Menu Position to Left (or Right).
If you're adding a new skin, there's a default skin called HTML5 - Side Navigation.

The help covers everything: https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... /Skins.htm

I'm not aware of any {filter} parameter, and there probably isn't one because it's not included in any messages.

Quite easy to get the selected filter name though:
var selectedFilter = $(".search-filter.selected").attr("title");

Might be better to use that method, as getting the 'f' parameter ...