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I have a few starter questions about translating my Flare Project from English to another language. I've got a workflow in my head - I'm wondering if I've got it right.

- Create Project in Flare
- Open Flare content in Lingo and create a TMX File bundle
- Send to human translator ...

Ok, the 'a' basically names the numbering sequence. You could have multiple sequences running at the same time if you wanted, and as long as each sequence had a different letter name they would not conflict with one another. Having said that, I honestly don't know how that works with Secnum and ...

Awesome!! Thank you Margaret!

That works, and so my understanding improves - Global, never thought of that . I'll just go and remove all my fudged attempts now and tidy up my poor abused stylesheet.

*makes a note in her diary to be back next week for Chapters*

This is what I thought it would do too. Perhaps that's the problem, it's just not how it's supposed to be used. As I want to use the TOC to generate my Word documentation, what would be the best way to proceed? All my stuff is topic-centric and depending on the output type (print or chm) I want to ...

If it helps, I used these from the online Help as it appeared to be what I wanted to do:

A:{n+}.{ =0}
A:{n}.{n+}
A:{n}.{n}.{n+}

And I got this.. :!:

1.
0.1
0.1
0.1
1.
0.1
0.0.1
0.0.1
0.1
0.0.1
0.0.1


Edit: This topic is sounding very familiar to me http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic ...

That's comforting to know (although perhaps not for you)!

I too can get the results I want if I use the chapter and section options on the Properties of my TOC entries but the {n+} just won't do what I think it should do. I've made a tiny Project now to play with; hopefully when the USA wakes up ...

Hey, I've not been "playing" with autonumbering for a while but I've just had a chance to try the above set up but it didn't work. I got this:

1.0
0.1
0.1
0.1
1.0
0.1
0.0.0.1
0.0.0.1

I then tweaked my H3 so it had 3 numbers in and messed it up even further.

I've tried the examples ...

It's not a problem as such, I just want to know why. :lol: I've just started the task of making my online help content look remotely decent in Word - meaning lots of compilations in a short space of time. The first time I published to Word it took 22 ish minutes, the second time it took 9 minutes ...

It would seem that leaving my computer overnight to listen to the tortured cries of the Scottish Ranger fans rampage through Manchester city centre has somehow fixed the problem.

I'm confused - do you still want me to open a support call for it MadCap?

This has just started happening to me as of today. Absolutely nothing has changed - it used to work just fine and today it simply won't!

I'll try the patch tomorrow and open a support call (out of time today). Any more updates on this issue?

I tried binding my Flare Project(s) to Perforce but the slow down rendered it unusable. Now all I do is every Friday run a Revert Unchanged Files and then Check in (and straight back out) all my other files in Projects I've been working on. This seems to work well so far and I have the peace of mind ...

Thanks, it's good to know I'm not alone. I too find it sporadically in some projects and not others, in some topics and not others. Sometimes I can repeat it plenty of times - others sadly not.

I've closed Flare now to bring calmness and tranquility to my Thursday, I was starting to fear for my ...

Morning/Afternoon

I'm having such a bad day with Flare, it's just not playing nicely and I don't know why. Periodically, I will decide I want to delete a word, so I flick through to it using CTRL and the Arrow keys. Then I hold down SHIFT, again with the Arrow keys and highlight my word. Next (and ...

Well my issue is a known one but yours might be unique! Do you have the Concept Window open when you get the error? If so, close it, save your project and then close Flare. Reopen Flare (double check the Concept Window really is gone) and retry the action that was giving you the error.

If the ...

Also, I think you're going to get into a confused situation with the second number, since it's not using the same number sequence as the others

I think I have some kind of inbuilt mechanism to be utterly confused by autonumbering numbering due to the years of pain from Word that I haven't been ...

Okay I got it working by setting my H3 style to "{Gn}.{Cn}.{Gn+}"

Why does that work?

Morning

I'm having a few problems with autonumbering - how I think it should work isn't how it's working and whilst I accept I'm probably wrong, I'm can't solve the problem. I'm using a Word target and I would like H1-4 for this document. The topics and the headings are mirrored in the TOC layout ...

Is your "Concept Explorer" window open whilst you are trying to generate output?

If it is, close it, save the project, close and reopen Flare and try to generate output again. Does that make any difference?

Is it written yet? I'd like to place my order please!

The beta version of Blaze is now available as a free 30-day trial release, which can be downloaded at http://www.madcapsoftware.com.

*hunts around* Where?

Oh never mind, I found it.

Hmm, interesting - a Friday job I think! Thanks for the detailed instructions, I'm going to give this a whirl on Friday - I'll report back.

If you go to the Help Index and type "keyboard", the page comes up that lists them according to task and according to shortcut key.

Or here: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/support/w ... efault.htm

I think the Flare editor does have a steep initial learning curve, but ultimately it's a very powerful tool. I would say it's taken me about 6 weeks to feel mostly comfortable using it and I dare say I've got months of learning ahead to get to grips with the advanced features on offer - some of ...

Yes I thought that too. Unfortunately the Concept Explorer sheds no light on it - it's happening even on brand new Projects. I've got a support ticket in the system so hopefully I'll get it sorted soon.

Morning

I keep getting the error that says \"Update Concept Set [Object reference not set to an instance of an object]\" whenever I delete anything from my project. I got it earlier when I deleted 3 Targets and I just got the pesky thing again when I deleted an image I'd captured using Capture and ...