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are the users always going to need the definitions? i would use expanding links solves a couple of issues from an outsiders perspective:

1) once the user knows what the terms mean, they dont have to see them every time they load a topic
2) the expanding text will print out if the topic is printed

i used this and it worked perfectly, the only thing i added was the following:

<INPUT type="text" name="searchtext" value="Search Help For..." />

i dont know if there was a real reason to do it, but since it will be "new functionality" in the help system i wanted to "ease" the transistion ... that ...

lame

You enable the Glossary pane by editing your skin. Open the skin you use for your WH output, go to the basic tab, and select the checkbox next to Glossary.

i am assuming this is for a webhelp target?

what if you added the unicode into the autotext field, you know, where you can create custom autotext, something like:

<unicode>####</unicode>

this is obviously an attempt at doing something, i have never tried ... ever. which you prolly picked up on with my unique <unicode> tags. :D

Disheartening news, called MadCap support and asked if they knew of anyway to try and implement this. The tech "thought the idea was really cool", but he didn't know of any existing Flare functionality that could make this work and a dev would be needed to try and get it implemented.

Put in an ...

I want to create 3 different lists on my help system home page that uses the relationship table columns (reference, task, concept) to create the list. The goal is when the user access the help system from the main menu (not using the F1 csh link) a "main page" will be displayed that contains three ...

Have you tried inserting the topic toolbar proxy onto the master page? Then you can control what buttons are on the topic toolbar using the skin editor. No need to mess with the JavaScript, when you can use the topic toolbar feature to do exactly that.

no i havent ... didn't even think about it ...

I was curious how I would go about moving the buttons from their current location on the toolbar to the bottom of my masterpage. I would assume I would need to call the same javascript that the buttons are currently using. I have been trying to mess around with Firebug and I this is what I got when ...

glad it worked.

Open the glossary in the internal text editor (right click the glossary file) then open the Find and Replace pane. Search for the exact definition (which should be between <definition> </definition> tags) and replace it that way. That should rip through your glossary fairly quickly the changes you ...

Go here: C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare V5\Flare.app\Resources\WebHelp\Default.flwht

Open the Toc.html file in your favorite text editor

Edit the following:

<div id="CatapultToc" style="white-space: nowrap ;">

Change the bold word into any of the white-space properties, for word ...

yea i didn't see that when i did a quick search. from what i remember with the captions they just added a tooltip i dont remember anything in the GUI actually changing text in the quick search box but i could be way wrong

Editing a giant post is difficult so I am finishing here :D

So the input.value and input.setAttribute control what is displayed in the quick search field.

input.value is the base setting.
input.setAttribute is the setting after a user has clicked in the search field, left it blank, and clicked ...

I wanted to create custom text in the Quick Search field that would provide "detailed" instructions on how the field was actually supposed to work. I couldn't find anything on the forums after successfully completing the task, so I figured I would add some fun tips to the forum. :D

Locate the ...

well....you could have done this:

create a paragraph style called: picture, apply fancy style elements.
insert an image with the p style applied
so you have <p class="picture"><img></img></p> in your scoure code
FnR for: <p class='picture'> and replace with <p class="picture" MadCap:conditions ...

However, this will require a lot of overhead to set up. Does anyone know of a faster way to exclude teh graphics in a specific target?
Yes. Apply a conditional tag to the folder containing the images. All files within that folder will be excluded from the output, so you don't need to condition the ...

well well well...

So thank you for the tip on the adding border:none; to each cell style line. Upon doing so, the table still....until....i created a new one right above it and wallah!

Very weird! (Because, of course, changing the style sheet should change the look of pre-existing content.)

But ...

Yea, I don't have Flare open (just got in, don't hate :D ) but the RelationshipTableHeading style has 3 subclasses, which happen to follow the names of the 3 standard columns. There is a property in the subclass that has the name of the heading, should be easy to find because it will say Related ...

scott wrote:HA!

I don't know anything about Flare 6, except that it will exist sometime in the future and it will be cool.

Personally, I'm hoping for outputs for eBooks and mobile devices!

I've been working on a skin for a PDA using Window Mobile .... its been, ahem, interesting.

great, now everyone is all in a tizzy .... hooray!!!!

but, really, thanks for the help

i've been using the MSTP guide but i just signed up for the chi-town special, can you tell me where you found the copyright info so i can show it to the boss ... and possibly reduce the amount of copyright / trademark work ;D

scott wrote:I'm going to wait until Flare 6.

oh do tell

yea, reltbls are very interesting and could take up some serious document space if you started to really dig into the rabbit hole.

Technically the trademark needs to be be on the first occurence on every topic in a help system, or at least that is how it was explained to us. since we single source and didnt feel like bothering with condtioning out the trademark simples the first time a trademark name is displayed under a ...