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Give all users access to all of the help. The security needs to be implemented in the application, not documentation.
Normally I'd agree, but the example in the previous post is valid. There could be content you don't want end users to know about but that administrators do need access to. In this ...

But the hyperlink...the only available style (see available style.png) that comes up when I make a hyperlinke is "a". When I edit the "a" tag, I make it blue, and select underline and italics. But when I view a preview, it comes up green......
If you want more info on those additional styles that ...

(note that auto-numbered lists (i.e., numbered lists that don't use <li>) are implemented under the covers as tables)
I don't think that's quite true. If you used outside-head, then it created that effect by putting it in a table when you generated the output. If you left it at the default option ...

I don't have Flare open at the moment, but there is (or used to be) an icon to switch from normal HTML code (as seen in the second of MattyQ's screenshots) and actual XML structure code. It sounds like you're looking for the HTML code. If you're not seeing what MattyQ's screenshot shows, then you ...

According to Wikipedia, FrameMaker 2015 came out in June 2015, which was several months after Flare v11 came out, so not surprising v11 doesn't support it.

Do you have one TOC or multiple TOCs? If you have multiple TOCs, make sure the output you're generating is pointing to the TOC you're modifying.

Also, you might want to open the TOC file in the Internal Text Editor or Notepad so you can see the code behind. I seem to recall a bug that existed at ...

Try adding white-space: nowrap; to the style definition and see if that works. It will probably result in all of the xref moving to the next line, which could leave a lot of white space at the end of the first line, but at least your xref will appear together.

pmagnier wrote:Trouble is, Excel doesn't seem to have a way to insert bookmarks.

Yes, it does. That's how I tested the solution. It's under the Insert menu in Excel 2010.

I don't think naming a cell in Excel is the same as creating a bookmark in the cell or bookmarking the text in the cell. That's probably why you can't hyperlink to it. (If you save the Excel file with the named cell as a PDF, you'll see that there's nothing "clickable" in that cell.)

I think you ...

Is the data in the Excel file accessible to others and will continue to be updated and that's why you want to keep the Excel file? I'm just wondering why you don't copy-and-paste the content into topics in Flare and make it available that way. Is there a need to keep the data in the Excel file?

I guess next I would double-check the TOC entry to make sure it's pointing to the correct page layout and everything that should be enabled in the TOC entry is enabled. As an additional test, you could temporarily change one of the working "books" to point to the topic for this "book". If the topic ...

Whoohoo! That worked! Thanks, Dave! (Didn't realize the search results were added after the page loaded.)

Bizarre. Hadn't noticed that until you mentioned it. If you go to Tools, you should see "Spell Check While Typing" enabled. That's the default option. However, it doesn't always seem to work. If I open a topic, I don't see the spell check warnings on words until I put the cursor in the writing area ...

I'm using the HTML5 Top Navigation setup in Flare and I have it set up to return glossary terms in search results. However, it's not terribly obvious to me that the first entry in the results is a search term. I've added a bit of top and bottom border to the glossary results style in the skin, but ...

I think adding a third frame to the page layout is your best bet. The downside is that I think you might have to put defined page breaks to prevent unwanted text from appearing those times you don't want content there. Or use header styles that always start on the next page. Or have two page layouts ...

Did this happen when you upgraded to v11? In the past when you did an upgrade, some Flare styles were renamed. For instance, instead of p.MiniTOC1, it became p.MiniTOC1_0, so if you had defined a style for p.MiniTOC1, it appeared not to work after the upgrade. So if the styles disappeared after the ...

Not a quick workaround to implement, but wouldn't using the new top navigation option in Flare v11 work? There isn't actually any TOC synchronization because you're not using the tripane help layout. It should save you some real estate so you can show more of the help, although that kind of depends ...

Are they all using the same page layout file, or did you do one per target? If you're using a different page layout file for each target, then double-check the page layout file to make sure the title area is big enough for the title (including accounting for the margin, padding, and border ...

I thought Flare was crashing on me recently but it turned out it was realllly dragging. I moved the files from a network share to my local PC to see if that would help and it didn't. I have 12 GB RAM, so I figured it wasn't that. So I looked up the system requirements and realized I didn't have .NET ...

You can also right-click on the MadCap:slideshow block and select Edit Slideshow. You can add and hide slides there and set their captions. I don't understand, though, why you can't set the image to be used in that screen. You can define the thumbnail, but not the image itself. I don't get the ...

My first thought then is to compare your styles between the print medium and whatever medium you're using for online output (usually the default medium). Make sure you don't have something specified in the default medium that you're overriding in the print medium, which could be why it's ok in print ...

Why are there two dropDownBody blocks? Are you trying to imbed one drop-down inside another one? A simple drop-down would appear as:

<MadCap:dropDown>
<MadCap:dropDownHead>
<MadCap:dropDownHotspot>Drop-down heading</MadCap:dropDownHotspot>
</MadCap:dropDownHead>
<MadCap:dropDownBody>
<p>Drop ...

Is that line thickness variance just in the WYSIWYG editor, or does it show up that way in the output?

By the way, I was not aware you could include a CSS from another one using an @import directive.
In "traditional" websites, you could call multiple stylesheets on each page, and the order of the insert controlled which one had precedence. Flare does that a bit after you compile (open a topic in ...

Total guess off the top of my head and with very limited Googling to see if I was right... I think tagged PDFs are supposed to help with screen readers for users with disabilities. Sort of the onscreen PDF version of a 508-compliant website. So whether or not you need to create tagged PDF depends on ...