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I would move the entire project out of your OneDrive folder.
Lots of people have had problems when keeping Flare projects in OneDrive (or Google Drive, etc.).

When you move the project, delete the Output/user/Temporary folder and Analyzer folder.

Thank you so much for this post! I've got a button that works in my project, but my issue is that I want the button to "float" down the page (on the right side) as the user scrolls down the page. My button just displays at the bottom of the page. Can someone tell me what I would change to make ...

If this is for HTML5 output in a browser, then you can use the units ch (character) and lh (line height).
But I doubt this will work for PDF output, or Word output.

div.textbox
{
width: 80ch;
height: 24lh;
}

Em units are a bit complicated. My understanding is that the em unit will equal the ...

If it has to be 100% robust, then yes you do need user authentication - as you'd need to record (at your end) if a user has clicked the link.

If it's for something that doesn't matter very much, then you could use the browser storage (localstorage or sessionstorage) or cookies to record if a user ...

I put all my snippet conditions in a "SnippetConditions" set.
These conditions are only used when selecting the snippet conditions for a snippet or topic.

So when I'm working in a snippet, I can easily tell which conditions will only apply to that instance of the snippet (SnippetConditions), and ...

If you print a topic from your web browser, then it will use CSS from the print medium in your stylesheet - so check anything inside @media print {} in your stylesheet.

MadCap have confirmed a bug in 2024 R2 if you have SVG files that are read only - all SVGs in my project are read only because I use source control (TFS).

* When you build a HTML5 target, you get a build warning like this: "20011, Failed to load image C:\xxx\image.svg. , HTML5, Compiler, C:\xxx ...

I tend to use conditions for this.

Things like comments might have a condition called "comment", which is always excluded in all targets, so it's only visible in the editor.
Flare also has annotations (on Review tab) to add comments, but I never really got in the habit of using those.

Bits of ...

Yep, I've seen this bug before in Flare.
Flare processes all the CSS files during the build (like converting MadCap: tags), but I've also seen it corrupt CSS by re-ordering elements or replacing characters (like your example). This usually happens when using more "advanced" CSS, particularly psuedo ...

I'd strongly suggest going for (3) combined project.

Any solution using project imports / GPL will impose limitations and give you a much less flexible solution than using a combined project.

Since project A has 24,000 files already, I wouldn't expect the performance to much different by adding 3 ...

Sorry, completely forgot about the other list options - using the regular Bullet List and Numbered List icons don't insert any inline styles.

You don't need to use the other list options that insert styles, or set up any style classes to handle multiple list levels. The example I provided shows how ...

I use the bullet and list icons on the ribbon, and these will insert HTML list tags (ol - bullet, ul - list, li - list item).
In my stylesheet I set up styles for these list tags, mainly to choose the formatting for 3 levels of lists - I've included an example at the end.

Using the regular HTML ...

Ok, but if you want to fix it, you need to check your project and tell us how it's currently implemented. Does it use a menu proxy or not?

If it does use a menu proxy, then:
* Edit the menu proxy to check its settings - like the number of heading levels it's set to display.
* Check what skin the ...

The way to set this up in current versions of Flare is to insert a menu proxy, and set it to display (Headings).
That will generate a menu of the headings in your topic.

See the help: Creating a Topic Menu

When you use Insert > Hyperlink , there's a button/icon to the right of the URL to insert a variable, and that will insert it in the right format - for example: [%=System.SourceFile%]

However, that still may not work for your example, as I guess you need folder/path too and not just the filename ...

so you're saying I could put the same topic in the TOC multiple times, one time it would show the 95% same content + condition A, the other time it would show the 95% same content + condition B (or something else along those lines with that result)? Am I understanding that correctly?

You can't ...

But what is going to be inside the iframe?

I'm assuming you're going to produce two different Flare outputs - one with a skin, and one without a skin to display in the iframe.
For the output that is going to be displayed inside the iframe, set the target Skin to (none).

Yep, I can reproduce this. I'm quite glad I only use CSS variables for things like colours and sizes in my skins.

That's a pretty bad bug, considering "Resolve CSS variables" is not set by default for new targets, and most people shouldn't need to set it unless they have to support IE11.

As ...

You can get rid of the error by changing async to async="" in the first line.

You get that error because Flare's editor uses XHTML, which is a stricter form of HTML. In HTML you can write attributes in minimised form without quotes, but in XHTML all attributes must be written in full with the ...

It doesn't work because you're not using the standard list numbering. You've set up your list item to hide the standard list number (list-style-type: none;) and use and use an auto-number instead.

You've set up your auto-number to reset the numbering on the first item on each list:
ol > li:first ...

You can select multiple files in either the Content Explorer (if you select Toggle Show Files first) or from the File List.
So you can select all files in a folder, view Properties, then set conditions in the Conditional Text tab.

In the target Advanced tab, set Content to include - All Content.

That will include all files in the content folder in the output, so they don't need to be linked from the TOC or other topics.
You can use a condition to exclude any files that you don't want in the output.

You can insert variables in the code snippet editor in this format:
[%=VariableFileName.VariableName%]

Note that you will not see variable text displayed in the XML editor, and it'll just show the code above. But that code will be replaced by the variable text when you preview or build the output.

If you're using embedded Chromium, that only supports open source video formats (such as webm). So that's likely to be the reason you're using webm, and can't use formats like mp4 which are not open source.

When I tried the solutions above, I found that my menu proxy displayed no items at all. At least with Flare 2024, menu proxy sub-items are nested within the top-level LI structure, which we had set to not display, and that might explain it.

Yep, MadCap changed the tag structure of the menu proxy ...