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I don't think that's what Pat.Riv meant.
The topic names shown in the breadcrumb behave inconsistently if you have set the Title tag in your topics.
The breadcrumb text for the current topic will show the Title tag text instead of its TOC text, whereas all the parent topics will use the TOC text ...

Yep, using a pre tag will work.

Beware that the Flare XML editor does not display the spaces though (i.e. everything will be flush left), but it will display correctly in the output (and preview).

Just to be clear about this, you don't need to convert these files in order to build your project.
If they're just normal htm files, then you can copy them into your project (using Windows Explorer) and set up links to them in the TOC without having to open any of the files.
The files will also use ...

It sounds like you want to apply a li tag to a paragraph.
The reason the styles list doesn't show li tags is that you can't apply them to a paragraph, you can only have li tags within a list - an ol or ul tag.

It is pretty simple to change a paragraph to a list though, you just click the list ...

Hmm... no, what I said is quite different.
Your method involves breaking out of the list, creating the drop-down, then applying a list to the drop-down.
A big downside to that method is that the drop-down is not part of the original list, so you have to manually restart the list numbering (in your ...

Thanks Kevin. When I do that I do indeed see the styles I want to be using. However, when I click the "list icon" in Flare, it does not use my lists it uses some out-of-the-box styles that I don't like. I can't seem to get Flare to display MY styles. I know how to edit the styles that our usability ...

Pete Lees wrote:Do you need to use JavaScript at all for this?

It's for a WebHelp toolbar button, i.e. a javascript onClick action.

I must admit I know very little about ms-its and mk:@MSITStore, and I don't know if there are any potential problems with them.

One thought though, if you want the generic topics to be available from your main product help systems, you could just merge the projects - i.e. add the generic project ...

Try this:

window.open("mk:@MSITStore:c:/Program Files/SoftwareName/Generic.chm::/Generic/Introduction.htm", "_self");

The "_self" part opens the link in the help viewer instead of opening the topic in a browser window.

AFAIK, I think you can only use absolute and not relative paths.
(I think ...

I want to define in a table style sheet, an image to display in the first cell of a header row of a table.

I can get text to display using the 'content' paramter for the applicable ColSep style, but cannot get images to work. I have tried the 'background-image', but the image does not display ...

For some reason, Flare doesn't like you trying to apply a drop-down effect to a list. You can still do it, but you have to do it in a specific sequence. ...

It's an awful lot easier to use drop-downs in lists than the way you mentioned.

1. On the line you want to use the drop-down, right-click ...

What is the list style that you set up and are trying to apply?

When you click on the list icon, this will create a numbered or bullet list.
The list will consist of a 'container' tag, ol for a numbered list and ul for a bullet list, and items in both types of list use the li tag.

If you want ...

I don't want a pile of topics cluttering up my tabbed list, and closing--and then dealing with the save confirmation--for each topic is very annoying and slows me down.

If you right-click a topic tab there's an option to close all other open topics, and you only have to confirm saving all of them ...

On my PC it normally just takes a few seconds to finish (even in large projects), but as reported above it sometimes gets stuck and stays there forever (well, several minutes until I lose patience and press Cancel).

It's calculating all the tea in China. I usually press Cancel when it does that.

I'd suggest reinstalling Flare, and if it still doesn't work then contact support.

I can't see why you should need them, you can have an xref to a topic without having to link it to a bookmark (inc. Word output).

In my project, I removed all the bookmarks from topics (that were in headings) and removed the bookmark references from the URLs of all the xref links (i.e. topic.htm ...

Sounds a bit strange.

When you add a new destination and select either Factory Templates or My Templates , it'll show the Source File to the destination file template.

E.g. on my PC the factory template is:
file:///C:/Program Files/MadCap Software/MadCap Flare V3/Flare.app/Resources/English ...

Are you seeing this in an imported project?

I've seen this before in projects imported from FrameMaker. It happens because the TOC and xref links are to bookmarks in the topic headings, so topics that are longer than the window height will scoll down a bit so that the heading is at the top.

Ok, thanks for the info, unfortunately this isn't something I've tried before.

Has anyone used search filters in merged projects and got it working?

Glad you got it sorted, but did you not see this method mentioned further up the thread? :wink:

I think you're looking at the wrong popups.

The popup, popupHead, popupBody styles are for text popups, not topic popups.
If you insert a text popup (Insert > Text Popup), you should see your style changes.

A topic popup will display the topic as it is, using the styles of that topic.

The ...

I don't think you will be able to customise or change the existing search functionality, but you could add your own search.

One possibility would be to add a search box to your WebHelp, e.g. by adding it to the master page.
This search box would be a simple form with an input box. The form action ...

Strange, I'm not sure why my project folders include .flprj in the folder name. I can't remember how that came about.

Both ways work, although the auto-number-class method needs more detail than was provided.

When you set the mc-auto-number-class property, what you're doing is saying that the autonumber section will be contained within in a span tag of that class.

So, if you set mc-auto-number-class:noteformat ...