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...for this detailed reply (you are not the Simon Cowell of the Flare forums at all, you are far too nice :roll: ).

I am struggling to find the info re: linking the DotNet Help to the application via a button on the dialogs. The Overview for Developers topic seems to have some information (3 ...

I am investigating the DotNet output as we may switch to it instead of using HTML Help.
I have been reading the Flare help on this and still have a few questions (some of these come from the developers I work with).

1/ Does DotNet Help support 64-bit software (Does HTML help support 64-bit ...

Thanks Richard (I assume it cannot be customised either in version 4 then).

Hi everyone,
I am investigating the DotNet output and have been playing with the skin editor (removing one accordion - Favourites-, specifying colours for the accordions with gradients) without success.
Also how do I customise the toolbar at the top of every topic?
Can I also hide the Index Results ...

Hi again
Thanks to everyone who has replied . I am going to have a look at your suggestions / links.
Regards,

Hi everyone
Not sure were to place this topic...I am a Flare user and I am looking for one or several books about best practices when writing on-line help. For examples, what are the "rules" or "do's" and "don'ts" for CSS, topic linking, number of clicks, links within a topic, index building, etc.
I ...

Hi Lisa
You are absolutely right, some of the values entered in the StyleSheet Editor do not end up in the StyleSheet!!!! :evil:
However, I have set (and checked it is in the StyleSheet when opened in Notepad or similar) mc-image-spacing to 5px for the ConceptLink style and its pseudo classes and ...

Hi everyone,
Is it possible to order the topics that appear in a concept link? They seem to be ordered alphabetically and display the topic they are in.
Thanks,

Hi there
I have posted about this some time ago but have not found a workaround yet and am having to fix this now.
I use Concept Links, and have left the ConceptLink style (and its pseudo classes, hover and focus) with default attributes (as they come with MadCap, by default), except that I have ...

Hi Pete
Thanks for your input. I tried both your solutions and none of them worked for me. As I have not got much time to play with this (deadline looming), I will go with Dave's suggestion for now.
Thanks for your help and your time.

Hi Dave
Thanks for your valuable reply, your script seems to work. I am going to give it a good testing to make sure it is fine when going from one Help File to the other and vice-versa.
I had read somewhere that using the ms-its command was an issue with XP and service pack 2 for security reasons ...

Hi there
I am having a Javascript issue (I know very little in JS) and thought of looking for some help here.
I have several HTML Help Files, each of them for a different product incarnation (ProductA.CHM, ProductB.CHM, etc). These Help Files will all be located in the same folder on the clients ...

Hi there
No, these topics are in the same folder as the ones for which the snippet conditions are working. The XML is very similar in the topics that are working and in the ones with the issue. I have created new topics and some of them are exhibiting the same problem. I really do not understand ...

Thanks Kevin
That saved me a lot of times and helps me understand better how Flare works!

Hi Kevin
Thanks for your suggestions. As a matter of fact, I have compared files in my text editor and there isn't anything obvious. I will probably have to implement your solution n.2.

Hi everyone
Another silly question about hierarchy re: master pages & HTML output...
If I have 6 master pages in my project and have associated all my topics with the relevant master page, why can I only specify ONE master page in the target properties (I am not generating Printed output)?
Will the ...

Hi Kevin
Thanks for your help. Your suggestion seems to work, except for two topics which no matter what I do to do (I have removed all the includes and excludes at topic level, then re-inserted the snippet and made sure the snippet conditions were set up to the correct incarnation of the software ...

I have but I have an issue for common topics. Let's say I have topic X which is valid for all the software incarnations (A to F).
By going to Properties on that topic and by opening the Snippet Conditions tab, I have clicked on all my snippet conditions : snippet.A to snippet.F as the topic is ...

Hello everyone
I am working on a project with 6 different targets (all HTML Help), depending on the software incarnation. Some functionality and screenshots are generic but each product has got its own specificities. Some topics are common to all 6 products but some require some conditions in parts ...

Hi guys
Thanks for your input / diagnostic suggestions, etc.
Just to let you know that this error does not seem to happen anymore since I cleaned my project (Build | Clean Project) and when I committed all my changes to source control (We are using source control, but it is currently not linked to ...

Hi Helen & Kevin
Thanks for your input.
I have not upgraded to 3.1 as I am not the only one using Flare in my company and it has not been decided yet to do so.
The Concept Explorer window is not open when I try to generate my target.
If I cannot sort this out soon, I will have to contact MadCap and ...

...to an instance of an object.
Hmmm, I get this not very helpful message during build progress. Basically, I cannot generate any outputs anymore.
When I go to the Messages tab of the Build Progress, it looks like the error is occuring because of the concept links.
Has anyone seen this before and ...

for this comprehensive tutorial. It is all a bit beyond me but I think I am starting to understand your point. Thanks for taking the time to post and explaining things to me.

...and look at all the replies! Thanks, everyone, I will have a look at your suggestions. Otherwise, another question also related to this, and not really to Flare: why should I choose a DIV tag? (I do not really understand DIVs and SPANs)

I am a bit thick today :roll:...As I am only used to using the Flare Stylesheet Editor for simple and most used properties, I am struggling a bit on this. I have created a p_definition class to which I have applied a background colour. I would like the background colour AND the text to occupy approx ...