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Never mind. I got it.

When I try to make a line of text follow a new style I created, I get the following message:

"Only 20 of 50 styles shown."

Naturally, the newest style isn't shown. If a style isn't shown, how can I select it for that bit of text?

Everything seems to work after the move. Two Notes:

1. I did have to mess around with a handful of cross-references, but I can handle that.

2. I also had to delete some ancient project import files, too.

Other than that, my first try at building the target that WAS throwing errors went smoothly.

Nita Beck wrote:I amended my advice above.

Okay, gotcha.

Thanks a bunch, Nita! I'm on it.

Nita Beck wrote:To fix your situation, you should move your Flare project to as shallow a folder location as possible, such as C:\FlareProjects\YourProjectHere.

Okay, I'm game, but how does one move a Flare project? I sure don't want to break anything.

Hi Craig,

Are you building on a server and testing on your own machine? In my case, the server was using a deeper directory path than my machine; it worked for me but not for the server. Also, I found that 260 char limit is not always correct; sometimes it fails on less. Doesn't your build log ...

I am getting this error again. I have no clue which file name is the offender because this is all I am given to work with:

Linking cross-references...
Creating chapters...
The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the ...

That's great! Thanks, Nita!

Thanks, Nita!

When importing a project file, is there a way to choose the folders into which the HTM and image files go?

Several years ago, I created a separate one-off project, created PDF output, and thought I'd heard the last of it. I was wrong.

This older project has risen off the slab to be reborn. I probably should put this child project back under the parent project from which it grew.

What is the easiest way ...

I have them humming along at the topic and paragraph levels.

The key for me was to lean on Excludes and forget about the Includes.

Thanks to Nita Beck for her helpful hints.

Thanks, Nita!

Is there a way to use Excludes on one or two paragraphs of content embedded within a topic?

I have some content that is meant only for a specific client. This material doesn't really need to be in a separate topic.

Right now I have two separate TOCs and two separate Targets. One is for Client A ...

If you remove them their content will be included in any online type output, even if the topics aren't in a TOC used for the build, if the condition is being used as an exclude condition. If anyone searches the output the 'hidden' topics (they're not in the TOC for the output) will also be ...

Thanks! I seldom have reasons to use conditions, so I rarely do. I have no memory of why I applied these conditions, either. Guess I'll remove them and see what happens.

There are check boxes associated with every entry in a TOC.

Sometimes these check boxes are filled in with blue, see the image.
What differentiates the blue boxes from the clear boxes?

Nita Beck wrote:

ccardimon wrote:Maybe someone should let them know their forums have a problem.

You can easily do so yourself. Send a PM to Rob Hollinger (who is one of the forum admins) and direct him to this post.

Done. Thanks Nita.

Maybe someone should let them know their forums have a problem.

Okay.

EricAginity wrote:Conditions in Flare are really starting to make me question my sanity.

Me, too.

When I tried logging into the forums using Chrome a few minutes ago, I received this error:
I cleared the cache and rebooted, but still got the error. I am posting this using IE.

What's going on?

Thanks, Nita!