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That is exactly what is supposed to happen. Did you try it out and the result was different?
We were having some issues with topics that we deleted somehow ended up still being in our "published" output. I'm not sure if this was something we were doing wrong but just to be safe, I was manually ...

I'm liking the new batch targets in V6 but I must admit to some confusion over the publishing feature.

Let me run through a scenario to see if someone can help clarify this for me...

I have a very simple help system with only three topics: Topic A, Topic B, and Topic C. Yesterday at noon, I built ...

There was a discussion a few months ago about changing icons - you can also change the font weight, colour, size etc. Have a look at:
http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9241
and ignore the bits about the icon.

Basically, you edit the skin (not the stylesheet), and add a new ...

One of our product managers has asked if there's a way that we could "bold" those items in our ToC that are "chapter headings".

For example, he'd like to see the ToC entries I've highlighted in red...
FlareTOC2.gif
...formatted in "bold".

I checked through the stylesheet but didn't find anything ...

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Are you a technical writer that uses Flare and lives/works in the Ottawa, Ontario region?

I'm looking to do a little local "networking" and thought this might be the best place to look for folks.

So if you're a Madcap Software ...

This may already be obvious to everyone else but it wasn't to me so I thought I'd pass this on as a lesson learned.

When using a single Feedback Explorer window to review the statistics for multiple WebHelp "systems", we found that having multiple Feedback Configuration (.fbconf) files open at the ...

Please let me know if this has been addressed in another thread.

I'm having an issue wherein Flare seems to apply "local formatting" to my tables that over-rides the table stylesheet.

Here's my problem...

1. I created a new TableStyle called "notebox". This is in the form of a notebox.css file ...

Not sure if this is a good idea or not but I'm certain someone will express their views on the merits of this idea. :)

Unless I'm mistaken, Feedback Server is set up on the model where the author/reviewer/admin has to use Feedback Explorer to check for any pending comments or stats.

Feedback ...

If it is the output files that need to have .html extensions, you can control that in the target. You don't need to change the source files to .html, though you can.
To quote the immortal Charlie Brown... "Good Grief!" :wink:

Thank you, Paul, for this tip. That's a neat little feature.

I just ...

Thanks muchly for the info.

Why am I not surprised that this annoyance stems from Microsoft?

*sigh*

I think you're right, Lisa, but in this case, my beef is with Flare's error message and not the O/S.

I don't think Windoze is the issue here based on this...
My question is... shouldn't Flare be able to distinguish that .HTML is a valid file extension for topic files?

Our MIS department (who are the ones in charge of the web server that hosts our WebHelp) has asked that our topic files use the .HTML file extension instead of just .HTM.

No problem, I thought, as I couldn't see why Flare wouldn't support the .HTML file extension.

But when I changed the file ...

We use expanding text in a number of places and have even used it several times within one help topic as a way of "saving space".

A request has come in from our UI designers for help topics that have multiple "sets" of expanding text. Namely, can we "...add an “Expand All” and a “Collapse ...

Woohoo! I'm on Page 11! (http://www.cherryleaf.com/imatechwrite11.htm)

Ummm... and in case it isn't obvious, that's a wig.

Honest!

Sayyyyyyyyyy... is that THE Mike Hamilton on Page 4?

I'm curious about that myself, Andrew.

Especially since I'm discovering a problem that might be related to this and, if so, is rather disconcerting.

Namely, if you "publish" multiple PDF files to the same destination... the existence of the .mcbook file and other files can prevent the file ...

We are currently doing the same thing. I have found no issues copying the English to another folder, renaming it Spanish/French etc. All links appear to be relative.
Glad to hear it, Greg. Thanks for the feedback.

Out of interest, if your translation company isn't using Lingo, what are they ...

I also don't do translations, but if you aren't aware of Lingo, you should know that it was designed specifically to address the translation of a Flare project. You open the Flare project in Lingo, and the translators do all their work and they send back a new, localized project.

Thanks for the ...

I don't have to translate my content (thankfully), but I believe the project settings can have a part in this. For instance, I don't think you can just open the Spanish project and build the output without also setting Flare to use Spanish. The language setting on the computer might have an effect ...

Heh, and why am I not surprised that Lisa comes to my aid (once again). :)

I wasn't thinking of renaming any of the subfolders as I don't want to mess with any of the project settings.

Fortunately, I'm not too concerned about the Recent Projects list as all I've worked on was the _ENGLISH ...

Forgive me if this question has been asked before but I'm looking for some assistance with a Flare project that we're having localized.

Currently, we used the folder naming convention of PRODUCT_LANGUAGE to keep our various language variants organized. For example, our source files are in the ...

Found `em!

NavigationDragHandle and NavigationTopDivider.

Took me a while but thank you, Lisa, you had me in the exact right spot I needed to be.

Cheers!

I've been looking in my Skin file under the Styles section for a while now but I just can't seem to find the little bars at the top and bottom of the TOC frame that are a color gradient in the sample below.

I even used my graphics program to determine the hexadecimal code for the colors in the ...

Dave Lee wrote:Perhaps MadCap have booked Dita Von Teese to provide entertainment at the DocTrain East conference.

OK, if I wasn't distracted before...

...

...what?

Well if we're bringing the Romans into it, how about...

MMVIII-X-XXIX?

:)

Now as for Darwin Information Typing Architecture, I have to admit my own ignorance in that I didn't know what it was. When I googled it, I got completely distracted as the first thing that came up was photos of Dita Von ...