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I have one or more projects in Flare 4 for which the Project Analysis pane is empty. It simply reads "(no project)". Deleting the project's Analyzer folder causes it to be recreated, but no scanning or analysis results. I do have full Analyzer installed, but the Project Analysis pane of other of my ...

The problem has resolved itself, it appears, for the time being but might have been related to a custom Word macro that was setting the Address property of automatically inserted hyperlinks to the document name instead of leaving it empty.

Thanks for the ideas!

Today's fly in the Flare ointment is:

A dozen or so Flare TOC entries link to imported DOC file bookmarks instead of Flare topic files, which it failed to create for some reason. That is, instead of the link defined as Content\<importname>\<topicname>.htm#<TOCbookmarknumber>, the are defined as ...

This may be fixed now in Flare 4 when you link to a project, but it doesn't appear to be fixed if you link to another TOC in the same project. That's is, given TOC entry (link) Z in TOC 1 linked to TOC 2, top level TOC 2 entry A becomes a book below Z instead of in place of Z. This makes Z an empty ...

Good ideas, but then the padding would apply to all images, not just the inline images, and could adversely affect alignment in other places. I'll probably write a Word macro to find all such inline images and replace any neighboring spaces with non-breaking spaces, which Flare respects.

Can ...

That would be a solution if the spaces made it into the topic files, but they don't:

Before import in MS Word (note the space inside the span tags)
<char style start>Some text here <char style end><Image here>

After import into Flare (space removed from between the span tags)
</span>Some text here ...

Here's the scenario:
One or more words preceeding an image (icon) have a Word style applied to them that is mapped to a Flare span style upon import
There is a space between the words and the image that is selected by Word when the text was selected for styling.
Flare strips the (trailing) space in ...

My experience so far with Flare cross-references is contrary to the last post that says "Cross-references will create a Word cross-reference that users can use to jump to the location." This is a huge problem since many of the legacy documents that I'm importing into Flare contain Word cross ...

That will change the label of the Browse Sequences book, which is fine if all I have is one sequence. But if I have several sequences, they will all appear as books beneath the one Browse Sequences book. Is there a way to have each appear at the top level instead of the Browse Sequences book?

I've started experimenting with using browse sequences to organize subsets of topics for various user types, but when I add a browse sequence, the book it adds to the TOC is named "Browse Sequences," not the name I gave to the browse sequence that displays there. Is that normal or what am I missing ...

After more testing, what I've deduced is that even though you choose a stylesheet to associate with an import, it is NOT used during the import, Flare applies its default Xref mc-format style to the import, and changes to mc-format only apply to subsequent Xrefs created in Flare.

Can anybody ...

I have 1.1, 1.1 Hotfix, 2.0 SP1, 3.0 SP1, and 3.5 installed. So, where does that point the finger?

I've only been using Flare a couple of months, but it's done this since the first time I tried F&R across files in source code.

Whenever I perform a Find and Replace in topic files with the Find In Source Code option enabled an unhandled exception occurs. I have .NET Framework 3.5 installed.

My compiled Help projects are working. It's the actual Flare Help Index in Flare itself that's not working. Clicking Help > Index in Flare does nothing. However, the Index icon on the Help menu is shaded as though the Index is already visible. Shortcut key combinations except F1 alone also do ...

The Help Index in my installation stopped working. The other Help features still work fine. Any ideas?

Is there a known problem with the KB Quick Search not working for some people? Doesn't do a thing when I enter a phrase and prese Enter or click the Quick Search icon. But the Search bar on the left does work.

Thanks for the suggestions, they weren't the solution but they pointed me in the right direction. I was testing from my Content folder instead of Output. I'm fairly new to Flare but I should have known better. Man, I need a vacation

This is using IE 7. I tried disabling tabs and the popups still open in new windows instead of popup windows.

Yesterday, my image map popups were opening correctly in popup windows. Today, they're opening in new windows instead, regardless of the project. They pop up correctly when previewed; it's only in a browser that they open in a new window. What could have changed? The only thing I can think of is ...

It's not a topic. I'm talking about the glossary generated and added by Flare when the Glossary option of the HTML Help skin is enabled. But yes, my topic masterpage that includes a breadcrumb proxy is selected for the glossary master page of the HTML Help target.

Anybody know how to add a heading and breadcrumb proxy to the CHM glossary page? The glossary book is using my topic master page but not its breadcrumb proxy.

I'm having this same problem, but in my case the missing book in the breadcrumb is linked to a topic. In fact, one topic of the book shows the book in its breacrumb and the other does not. What's up with that?

That will be my backup plan, but this will be a frequent need and it would be nice to fix it just once. I've already got a laundry list of pre and post processing steps, so one less is a step in the right direction.

Thanks!

Has anyone figured out how to edit or remove the word "See" from cross references imported from Word? I can format Flare's Xref style fine, but it doesn't apply to these imported references and I have to edit every inWord cross reference.

Thanks!