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Popup links not broken anymore, hurrah!

Hello Lisa and Dave
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, some MadCap styles have changed names, you were right, Lisa, what a nightmare...However, this is not what is causing me grief re: this particular issue. I think Dave pointed me towards the right direction. I do not know why I was looking at the ...

Dear all
I upgraded to Flare 7 yesterday and also have been experiencing problems with popups (like others on this forum, by the looks of it), I seem to also have an issue with the WebHelp toolbar.
I produce HTML Files with a WebHelp toolbar in every topic.
In Flare 6, my WebHelp toolbar would ...

Hello both
As usual, very interesting input and digression ( :shock: ) from both, very much appreciated. I agree that the Help menu is a must. In my query, I was most interested in how to access the help within a software using shortcut commands.
Re: the F1+CTRL command, I have been told it is a ...

Hello everyone
I would like to know if there is a standard (like F1 keyboard key or CTRL + F1) for calling a help system from a piece of software?
I know this is not a Flare question per-se but there is no sub-forum for general Help issues and as we all write help, I thought I would ask my peers ...

Hi Lisa
Thanks again for your feedback. You were right re:capitalisation. Unfortunately, me correcting the class names did not solve the issue (links in miniTOC bold or in black). I will try and look at the complex selectors, as suggested but I do not use many of these.

Hello Lisa
Thank you for your reply.
To answer your questions, WebHelp shows a similar behaviour (miniTOC links some bold, some in black) therefore the issue does not seem to be a limitation of the HTML Help format (Shouldn't have posted the thread here :oops: ). Also in both WebHelp and HTML Help ...

Hello everyone,
I am having fun with my miniTOC proxy in that I do not seem to get the links to display the way I want.
I produce HTML Help and have included a miniTOC proxy to my masterpage.
Depending on the TOC level, the links in the miniTOC of compiled topics appear as shown below.
TOC.jpg
TOC ...

Hi Jason
Thank you for your input. The HH files and the alias file match up nicely and some CSH on bookmarks works (but not all of it). As far as the target settings are concerned, I checked them and they seem fine too.
Next step is to check with my developers that I am linking to the correct ...

Hello everyone,
I am producing HTML Help with Flare and would like to assign some of my identifiers to some bookmarks inside topics. Flare allows me to do this in the alias file. However, when testing the CSH mapping, I realised that none of these were working. I get a "Failed to launch Help ...

Quick update on this.
Of course, Margaret, I am with you re: the script file, sorry :oops: . I searched for occurrences of ehlpdhtm.js and could not find any.
My developers are not keen to remove the offending code (calling a window called "Main") so the only solution I found was to create a skin ...

Hi Lisa and Margaret
Thank you for your replies. I recall seeing a thread about this issue a while back but could not find it whilst searching the forum last week (the search is awful, always ignores most of the words) :( .
Lisa, I have enquired with my developers and there is a call for a window ...

Hi everyone
Some time ago, I recall having seen a post about this error message on the MadCap Flare forums but I haven't managed to find the related thread whilst searching the forums.
I get this error message when clicking on F1 anywhere in the software my company produces. The Help is eventually ...

Hi there
Open your skin and go to the HTML Help Setup tab.
In there, click on the TOC Options... button.
Ensure the Plus / minus squares checkbox is ticked.

Hope this helps...

Hello everyone
I would like to use custom TOC icons in my HTML Help and thought it was not possible until I found some articles on the net talking about workarounds. However the info I have gathered so far :
http://helpware.net/FAR/far_faq.htm#CustomIcons
I need to create an image strip, which I ...

Hi Gary
I have similar issues as far as capitalisation is concerned. See http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9924&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a for more info.
I think there is definitely a bug here.
I would advise you to open the variable set(s) and the target(s) in a text editor, to ...

I agree with Andrew for the following:
- Context-Sensitive Help mapping more user-friendly and easier in RH (I even sometimes open my version 5 of RH just for checking some CSH mapping :shock: )
- Image-resizing in Flare causes some blurring for certain formats. I now use a set for my icons/buttons ...

Hello both
Thank you for your replies.
I have investigated this a bit more on my HTML Help Files and have observed the following behaviour:

- standard Print dialog displayed
via the context menu of the displayed topic (in Topic Pane)
if Print button of the WebHelp toolbar is clicked (I use a ...

Hello there
I have a query about the printing of topics from an HTML Help file.
When I either use the Print button on the HTML toolbar or right-hand click a topic, I either get a standard Print dialog (from which I can select a printer and print) or I get the dialog below.

Print_Topics_diag.gif
I ...

Quick update on this in case other people have a similar issue. I reverted to an old version of my stylesheet (we use source control) without any success so I had to edit the stylesheet manually (a.visited and a.link had disappeared and also I had to add some margin attributes as since we upgraded ...

yep - we had the same problem. We solved it by editing the stylesheet, but I cannot remember in what way - it was a lot of trial and error ... sorry for the bad news ...

It is very weird because I did not change the formatting of the hyperlinks. Also, I have noticed that the margins have ...

Hello everyone
I have upgraded to Flare v.5.0.1 this morning, straight from v4.2.
Everything seems to have gone ok EXCEPT that all my hyperlinks have been defaulted to the default underlined blue (and default underlined purple once visited). In my project, I have a stylesheet in which I have ...

Just for the sake of anyone else who might read this, I wasn't suggesting that was the optimal method -- I've never really considered caps for my variables (they are all initial caps because they are all proper nouns of some kind). I merely wanted to point out that Flare did not have a problem ...

Kevin, the code shows variable A for the heading and variable C for the first sentence.

ok guys, I think I have solved it. For some reason, the edits I was making in my Variable set (replacing the old variables with new variables that have completely different names) were not being taken into ...

Hi all
Thanks for your replies. I have named the variables all differently and to answer Kevin's question, I am putting manually a different variable depending on plural and capitalisation. However, I am still experiencing issues with capitalisation, which is probably what you were trying to tell me ...