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I've done it a couple of times from work, and a couple of times with my cell phone open (it has a speakerphone).

Here is a list of the planned features for the Next Version of Capture (Don't ask me when it will be released)

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I'm just guessing here, since I'm the only writer here, but it would depend on where the project is stored. If you have it in source safe, then if you're the first person who opens the project you'll get the Analyzer folder on you computer, in which case you check the entire folder into source safe ...

Flare Creates a New Analyzer folder in your project, so the first time, will be the longest time, or if you delete the analyzer folder from your project.
If you have multiple Flare users, does each user need a seperate folder (with the accompanying slow first opening of a project) or is there just ...

Richard Ferrell wrote:Some customers, mostly developers wanted the Entire output to be in one file, so the xHTML book was created for this purpose.

It would still be nice to see *why* that might be useful. What are they doing with a single file?

I see there is a v4 DotNetHelp Viewer...have any features been added to this? Is it the same thing, just repackaged?

If you include a TOC with the target, it should produce a .fltoc file...I assume that will actually be used to include a TOC, but I'd have to test it.

As for the purpose, the only thing I can come up with is it may be useful if you want to distribute a "manual-style" document, but think your users ...

If you click the Advanced search link (which is directly below the Search box in the upper-right corner), you can search in a more specific manner (such as requiring the topics to have all the words you type).

RamonS wrote:....although some may argue that it is indeed a bug.

Of course. But some would also argue that ANY potentially useful functionality that does not already exist in Flare is a bug. I think that is crazy.

The couple of times I've spoken to MadCap about it, they say it's a feature they would like to do at some point, but of course if and when they do depends on customer feedback.

https://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx

Just change the Type from Bug Report to Enhancement, and you will be ...

Flare cannot currently produce the DocBook standard. There may be a way to transform the current Flare topics into DocBook, but I am not experienced enough with XML or DocBook to know.

Glad you figured it out! If I may ask, which editor did you use to create the code you pasted into Flare? Was it Dreamweaver? I like to keep track of products that do not provide good XHTML.

Here is what one of my topic's headers look like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<html xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd">
<head>
<link href="Resources/Stylesheets/Styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

Note the lack of multiple namespaces ...

Just to be sure I understand the problem: in the XML Editor, your pages are not showing up properly, with missing text, ergo you cannot edit them inside Flare. Correct?

Perhaps you could post the code for your topic? Might be able to point to something causing a problem.

You may consider the advice trent the thief gave. If you want to improve your compile times, you need to understand where the bottlenecks are.

Yesterday we set the paging file to 0Mb, but Flare is still taking 40 minutes to compile, and throwing page faults (1,494,494 when I just looked), even though it isn't doing anything at all. For Flare to be paging even when there's no paging file to use is a remarkable feat.
Actually, that is ...

I've wanted to use Capture for a while; I *love* non-destructive editing, and I love the automation of callouts. I also *hate* the lack of copy/paste, which makes it unuseable for quick-n-dirty work. I use it primarily when I'm working on a one-off project and our corporate style doesn't matter (for ...

It depends on both your help system design and the nature of the subject you are documenting, I expect. If you tend to create longer, more complicated topics, the per-hour estimate will be higher than if you mostly have short, simple topics.

Where I work, we tend to estimate in days based on ...

Sorry, my apologies; my brain went faster than my fingers. Occupational hazard. :wink:

I meant:
In other words, when I insert a snippet into a topic, if it contains conditions , I want to somehow have the option of selecting which condition when I insert the snippet.
So in my mind, the big ...

Thanks for taking the time to help us all out Steve!

You actually CAN do this using snippets. This is what snippet conditions are for, and I do almost the exact same thing in my project.

Here is what you do:
I don't really understand why snippet conditions are controlled at the topic level. Why not at the snippet level (if necessary, in addition to ...

I've always handled VPN for Flare (and RoboHelp before it) by using Remote Desktop to connect to my work PC. That way, only the user interface interaction is flakey (and usually, the UI interaction is just fine); I take no chance of introducing corruption or any other problem into my project by ...

I've been meaning to send a feature request very like this for a while. Well, now is as good a time as any. :)

What I'd like to do is to be able to control "exclusive" toggles: some toggles can be open with others, and some, if you open them, will close every other toggle on the screen (because I'm ...

The vast majority of our topics are so short, there is no reason to link on anything but the topic level. If a case arose where linking to a bookmark would be advantageous, I wouldn't have a problem doing so.

Dave Lee wrote:If you want to publish every time, then just click Publish - it'll do a build if it needs to.

Never knew that -- BRILLIANT!

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