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LTinker68 wrote:

ccardimon wrote:Where may I post the gist of these messages?

You can attach the file to a bug report submitted at http://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx.

But should I?

How do I know if these are really my mistakes -- or something Flare is doing that I simply don't know about?

Am I making sense here?

Flare Bases the Printed output on your TOC, so if the TOC is wacky, then your printed output is going to be Wacky!

I fixed the TOC in both my Parent and Child projects, but the project is still being output backwards in Word. What's up with that?

I also received a bunch of error messages that I ...

Richard Ferrell wrote:If you have Analyzer, it does show you any broken links

Yes, I have it, but I don't know how to run it.

I think I got it. The TOC order may have been fouled. Didn't matter in RH. Maybe it does in Flare.

This error is so odd it is amusing, especially one hour before COB on a Friday.

I printed my project to Word. I elected to View Output and discovered the document as output is exactly backwards.

The last page is the title page. The first page is the very last page.

How would I reverse that?

If ...

Richard Ferrell wrote:I would check the error tab and see the lats topic it was last working on, There could be a broken link in the topic.

That I believe. I was fixing links like crazy. I could easily have missed one. Thanks for the tip.

I was trying to build a project that contains a merged project. We're talking parent/child here. This is the error I received:
I have no idea what this means. Any help would be appreciated.

What is that little red icon for an unlinked item supposed be, anyway? It looks kind of like a tick. And yes, it was driving me crazy. I am picky and detailed by nature, so that had to go.

Hold on, I think I got it.

Is the book itself linked to a topic? If not, that's why the exclamation point is there.

Well, no. It isn't. That's how I set it up in RoboHelp. I am more than willing to do things the Flare way. When in Rome....

So, pray tell, how do I go about removing the book without removing the underlying ...

I have an unlinked book in my Browse Sequence Editor. This is what it looks like:

Virtual Genesys User Guide Browse Sequence.png

It is an imported sequence, so I rebuilt it. I dragged over from the Content Editor all the topics I need and relinked them all. The red mark still won't go away.

Any ...

Yeah, that's a bug. I just did a quick test, and you're right -- when you left-click on a file, its name doesn't appear in the File Name field. But, if you select the file then click Open, it will indeed create the link to that topic. So you can link topics using this method, just realize that the ...

LTinker68 wrote:Can you drag one of those topics from the Content Explorer into the TOC Editor? That's how I normally add topics to the TOC. Does that work?

Interesting. This method seems to be working. Flare does not seem to like linking the imported TOC topics, but it will link the clicked and dragged topics.

Are you only having this problem with the RH imported topics, or with all topics?

Almost all topics are imported from RH. The short topics are imported from Word and have no TOCs.

If it's happening for every topic, could you tell us exactly what steps you're using? If you are missing a step or ...

I checked the extensions and they are all, indeed, htm. Maybe something else is going on.

What extension should they have? I never paid any attention to that. Updating the material was quite enough at the time.

I was originally trying to get rid of the red marks that mean I have unlinked items in the TOC.

I was following the instructions for linking TOC items, but I can't seem to get those directions to work.

I must be missing something.

LTinker68 wrote:Does it give you an error when you try to open them? Can you view those pages in a regular web browser?

I do not get an error when I try to open them. They simply won't open. When I click on the page, the page won't appear in the FIle Name box. Yes, I can view the pages in a regular web browser.

I can find them, but they won't open. I don't understand this. The main topics won't open and neither will the individual pages. It's like RH topics and pages are not recognized by Flare, or something like that.

I am trying to follow this procedure:

To link a TOC entry or book to an existing topic.

Select the TOC entry or book.
In the local toolbar of the TOC Editor, click . The Properties dialog opens.
Click Select Topic. The Open File dialog opens, displaying all the topics in your project.
Select ...

I have a RoboHelp project that I merged into another RH project.

The merged or child RH project became a topic within the parent RH project when the main project was published. Each has to be maintained separately.

I imported the parent RH into Flare. No problems thus far. I would like to import ...

Sounds a bit strange.

When you add a new destination and select either Factory Templates or My Templates , it'll show the Source File to the destination file template.

E.g. on my PC the factory template is:
file:///C:/Program Files/MadCap Software/MadCap Flare V3/Flare.app/Resources/English ...

I have encountered some strangeness with this. I will check into it and let you know.

In one of my projects, in the Destinations folder, I right-click for the Add Destination window.

Under Template Folders, I see "Factory Templates" and "My Templates."

My Template is empty.

Factory Templates was empty. I somehow put in a template called MyDestination. I don't remember how I did ...

Thanks, Lisa.