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Tech support have narrowed the problem down to conditions applied to <tr> elements.

Karen

I realize this is a very old post, but I just ran into this issue today when trying to generate a PDF target. It seems that a fix in Flare to allow conditional tags on <tr> elements has still not been ...

It occurs to me that someone may ask, "Why don't you just use conditional tags to cause those particular list items to be included only in print output? This would solve the problem."

True. The use of conditional tags would make this a non-issue. I use conditional tags extensively for many things ...

If anyone out there happens to utilize CSS class definitions to hide ("display: none") certain ordered list items in web output, but finds that the list numbering gets fouled up as a result, I have a little workaround I can offer up...

Background
When Flare generates WebHelp or HTML5 output, the ...

I'm afraid I don't know what else to try at this point, Tom.

Though unlikely, the only thing I can imagine is that the sample output you sent me is somehow missing one or more key elements which, in your "real" output, cause the CSS changes to be overridden or ignored. Without direct access to the ...

Tom,

I added the following to the "unit4_corporate_typography.css" stylesheet in the sample output you sent me. If you include it anywhere in that stylesheet, you should be all set when you generate your actual output:


span.MCHelpControl-ConceptHotSpot_,
span.MCHelpControl-RelatedHotSpot ...

Tom,

Specifying the padding in the "Topic.css" file in your output isn't the best way to go, since you'll have to re-do your work every time you create output (the "Topic.css" file will be overwritten every time).

I'm not sure why a padding definition for the ".MCHelpControl-ConceptHotSpot_" class ...

Tom,

I made the specified change in the Master Stylesheet for my project (Project Properties dialogue > "Defaults" tab > "Master Stylesheet" designation).

I discovered which class to apply the changes to ("span.MCHelpControl-ConceptHotSpot_") by using Google Chrome's right-click "Inspect element ...

I saw the same issue with the "See Also" (concept) links in my project topics and it really bugged me!

I just added the following to my main style sheet and it took care of it:
Here's the result!

HTML5 output already uses jquery, so all I have to figure out how to do is make sure the topic files themselves point to the right jquery location

Paul,

I know this is an old thread, but I wonder if you ever figured out a way to properly point to the "built-in" JQuery location in HTML5 output ...

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UPDATE for (at least) Flare v7:

With each new version of Flare that comes out, I compare the new "MadCapAll.js" file with the one from the previous version, to see if any custom code I've created may no longer be necessary.

I don't remember with which version of Flare it may have been, but ...

Vrushali,

I assume that you're seeing "Page 0 of n" when you've got a book in your Browse Sequence selected because you've linked book items to topics in your project. In other words, when the user selects a Browse Sequence book, a topic displays in the right pane of the WebHelp, right?

I've ...

I know this is an old post, but maybe someone's still keeping an eye on it. :D

I use the following code in an "about.htm" page for my project. It works great, and it's completely hands-off (i.e., no manual updates required)!

<p>My great online Help system</p>
<p style="margin-top: 2.00em;">Build ...

><span class="Sup">®</span>

I don't know why, but this code didn't superscript it for me. I had to use this: ^®

Kristil,

If you use a class of "Sup", you'll need to define it explicitly in your stylesheet. For example:

span.Sup
{
vertical-align: 15.00%;
font-size: 0.75em;
}

Hello, all.

I'm documenting an application written in Visual FoxPro v9, for which I've been providing accompanying CHM files for years.

Long ago, I asked our developers if we could "wire up" the application to enable the display of Context-Sensitive Help from the many forms which appear therein ...

David / all,

I did a little more reading in Flare's Help regarding the auto-number functionality and came up with the following for my printed output:

@media print
{
div.note
{
mc-auto-number-format: '{b}Note:{/b}';
mc-auto-number-position: inside-head;
padding-left: 5.00px;
}
}

This ...

I was just going to suggest that - it's what we do. Yep, you can add your own media type and set alternative styles in there that are Word-friendly; e.g. for notes you could just display the text 'Note:' using an autonumber.

David,

I've been looking for a way to display "Note:" for my <div.note ...

Looks like I might be on my way toward a resolution already! I continued my search in the forum to see what I could find, and this post http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10940#p62124 got me to thinking that I might be overriding the default CSS settings with my own stylesheet ...

Hello, all.

I've been doing WebHelp and CHM output through Flare for years, so I know my way around Flare pretty well, but feel a bit helpless now that I've been asked to provide some PDF output. :oops:

I worked my way through getting a TOC set up specifically for printed output, and I'm able to ...

Hello, all.

I came up with a ("quick and dirty") way to auto-hide or show the navigation controls for Browse Sequences, depending on whether or not the user is viewing a topic which is part of a Browse Sequence.

Ideally, I think it would be great to have an "out of the box" way via an option on ...

So, I tried creating a brand new project using Flare's "empty" template and generating some WebHelp output. When I tried to use the Search functionality in the output, everything worked fine—even in IE. Hmmm...

I tried a few changes in my real project (removing search filters from the project ...

Now, I would like to be able to close the Navigation Pane from the pane itself. That is, I want to add a 'ToggleNavigationPane' button in the navigation pane, not on the toolbar. Is that possible?

I'm not sure about how one might get a button in the navigation pane itself, but I did discover that ...

I am seeing the same symptom in Flare v6.1.0, though I hadn't ever seen it in any previous versions of Flare. Everything works swimmingly in Firefox and Chrome, but I get the following error with IE:

Message: Object required
Line: 1933
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: (my project path)/Content/SkinSupport ...

LTinker68 wrote:See this KB article

Thanks, Lisa. I found the corresponding Help topic in Flare once I read Greg's post. The KB articles were helpful, as well!

I don't know if anyone here would be interested in a JavaScript solution to actually creating tabs based on topic headings, but you may want to check out http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/tabber/ .

I've implemented this solution in my WebHelp project and it works phenomenally! It allows me to ...

Have you thought about using topic styles?

Excellent suggestion, Greg! I had read (briefly) about topic styles before, but never got to the bottom of Flare's Help topic which mentions how they allow you to apply different Master Pages to a set of topics. I had never thought much about them since ...