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I've been using Flare with Subversion as its source control for years but today for the first time the Pending Check Ins pane is showing

FileSyncCache.mcspcache as Checked Out
FIleSyncCache.s3db as Pending Add

I have no idea what these files are or why they are suddenly needed?

TIA

MadCap's regression testing seems patchy, at best. Flare 10 broke stuff in Flare 9 which is still, AFAIK, not fixed in Flare 11.

Just tried a PDF target.

It works there.

Flare Help clear that it is supposed to work in all print outputs.

Looks like a bug?

I have Flare 10 and Word 2010.

mc-caption-repeat is simply not working in my tables. Tried using master pages and page layouts, but no difference.

Anyone else seeing this?

I seem to have discovered a serious bug in Flare 10 and I just wanted to check with you guys in case I'm missing something really obvious.

I have a project with Word target that I can build in Flare 10 and Flare 9.

In Flare 9, tables within lists (ordered or unordered) are indented as they should ...

Thanks Dave! That was both maddeningly obscure and blindingly obvious at the same time.

In their KnowledgeBase, MadCap have set a color to the border around the Navigation pane (so that it matches the selected tab color).

Does anyone know how they have done this?

And Dave is light years ahead of all of us!

Having read Dave's excellent response, I realise that I mis-read the original post as referring to HTML5 output. I thought Alan was unhappy about the size of the popup image even though it fitted within the topic.

Apologies.

Hi Alan, how's things?

I think you're screwed here. If you've looked at the output HTML you've no doubt noticed the data-mc-width and data-mc-height attributes that Flare has added to the img tag. Flare seems to have got this information directly from the image itself, and you've also probably ...

I'm trying to do this too, with no success so far. Can anyone provide updated instructions for Flare 10? Many thanks.

Or is there no way to do this in Flare, and I need to load an external skin.css?

UPDATE

Finally got around to isolating this.

The form element works fine when directly present in a topic.

An identical form element causes a compile error if it is included in a topic via a snippet.

Seems like a bug to me.

I wonder if anyone else has had this problem?

We currently use a simple form with a mailto action to allow users to email us comments about the WebHelp.

To ensure the form is available from every topic it's included in the WebHelp's master page (although hidden until needed).

It's not an elegant ...

@Marjorie

The dependency isn't symmetric, because you need to get context IDs from the application, but the application doesn't get anything back from the help system. In principle, if all the conditions I mentioned are fulfilled, the developers could write the the code in January and you could ...

You are not missing anything - the Relationship Table Editor really is that poor. I've submitted feature requests to address the issues you mention, and urge you to do the same.

If possible (it is not always possible) try to resist the situation in which you are telling the developers what the context IDs (aliases) are. This introduces a dependency between you and the code that you are better off without.

When it comes to context sensitivity, I always ask that each form ...

You know, I'd really appreciate a specific Capture training course. I wonder if MadCap could be encouraged to add one to their list of courses?

In fact the act of simply saving a layout in Flare 10 greatly eased the problem (PaneLayoutsWpf v.2 didn't exist until I did). Many thanks to Paul and Marjorie for your help.

Finally got round to installing Flare 10 alongside Flare 9. But now every time I open Flare 9, it forgets its window layout and has to be reset. Anyone else seen this, and have a workaround?

Try using the table-layout property, set to fixed.

This may not help as I am generating CHM not PDF, but I had a similar problem and found using this CSS fixed it:

table td {word-wrap: break-word;}

YMMV

Thanks Lydia.

At the moment, the link is opening a (blank) IE window. Sigh. I thought this might be difficult ...

Interestingly, although the second CHM file is located within the Resources folder of the project, it is copied to the Output folder when the first CHM is built. Perhaps that's a clue ...

Is it possible to have a hyperlink in a topic in one CHM that opens a linked topic in another CHM, but in its own window (so, effectively, two CHMs open at once)?

I'd like to know before spending (wasting) a lot of time trying to get this to work.

Looks like Flare 10 supports OFT.

UPDATE: I say this because information about Flare 10 is now openly available on the MadCap website.

FWIW, we found that Word did a better job of resizing images than Flare does, so currently we don't embed or resize when we generate to Word. Instead we run a post-generation Word macro that embeds the images. It's not quite that simple, because of a Word bug that forgets image sizes when embedding ...