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We were previously using the Server Based Output option. When Flare 11 was released, we wanted to move to the TopNav skin but when I tested the search functionality, it appeared to return ALL topics within the project in the search results. It turned out this was only a problem when using TopNav ...

Great, I'm glad it helped!

Can you use a snippet instead? We use a snippet file for this purpose and it has worked great so far.

Is there a way to create the import file as a true template, such that you cannot accidentally execute it?

Sorry for the delayed response! Not sure if this helps, but we store our global and template projects in version control (but they are not bound to Flare) and these projects are mirrored to ...

Hello, Kellie.
Thanks so much for posting this information. It is immensely helpful! I have a question about your Flare Project Import Files: do you include the .flimpfl file in your template project? And, do you have a single .flimpfl file, or multiple such files? Thank you,
albert
Good question ...

In the TOC Book print options, have you tried the 'Auto-end on Left page' option? When applied to the book node, I believe it should force each chapter to end on a left page and each subsequent chapter to begin on a right page. (We no longer use this feature as we've moved to a continuous page flow ...

For the table jumping to the next page, do you have the following specified in your stylesheet? To repeat header rows, you can specify the following in your stylesheet:

You might check to see if the div style in your style sheet has the following specified, as it can cause the TOC proxy to push to the subsequent page: But this only occurs if the TOC spans more than one page.

We also use SVN (but don't use the Flare integration to bind our projects to source control). We work exclusively on branches, as we tend to have concurrent software releases. Each branch represents a software release and the work for that release is done exclusively on the branch. We localize our ...

In particular, how do you retrieve the correct 'old' versions of Flare files from a previous version for comparison with latest work?

We use version control for our source files and create tags and branches. We can then compare two branches to diff the source files. We also have an archive for ...

Maybe a folder/file compare tool, something like Beyond Compare? Compare fresh output to a prior published output?
We use Beyond Compare for this type of thing. You can also compare PDF outputs (at least for English and European languages...Japanese, Korean and Chinese not so much. :) ) It's ...

I could really could do with the addition of a Favicon being built into Flare, preferably into the skin. We have source control and are moving towards auto publishing without Authors having to intervene. So , in this new world we won't get the opportunity to add a Favicon to the build.

We ...

I echo the above requests for:
- Runtime-merged projects.
- Accordion menu.

These are the two things preventing us from transitioning to Top Nav.

Or, in the Advanced tab of the target file you can check the Generate "web-safe" images checkbox and specify an appropriate file type from the drop-down.

We also experienced SVG images not being displayed in CHMs but did not have any crashing issues. To work around this for our CHM targets, in the Advanced tab of the target file we check the Generate "web-safe" images checkbox and specify an appropriate file type from the drop-down. We use PNG and ...

I also submitted a feature request for this yesterday. We could really use this capability.

I'd recommend checking out the MadCap Customer Samples site:
http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/ ... mples.aspx

Not sure if this pertains to your issue, but I found a bug when using the Flare 11 TopNav skin with the "Server-based Output" option in the HTML5 target file (and the server configured to use ASP.NET, etc.). In this configuration, each time I searched for any term via the published website, the ...

FYI - you don't need to be using Capture. A props file is created if you apply a condition to a graphics file.

Ah, good point! We apply conditions to the image once inserted into the topic, rather than to the image file itself. When I used Capture a while back, it created a .props file even when ...

I've seen this problem too when applying (or removing) multiple tags to a file at once. This has been happening for some time, but luckily, I'm usually only applying two or three tags at a time. I should have filed a bug with Tech Support but have just dealt with this annoyance.

I believe that the ...

I should have noted that the issue with the div style only occurs if the generated TOC spans more than one page.

You might also check to see if your div style has the following specified, as it can cause the TOC proxy to push to the subsequent page:

We use this feature for generating 4 separate sets of release notes (in 7 different languages for each set) into PDF format, and it works great! We use the single target/single TOC with chapter breaks applied, and it has been straight-forward for us.

I'm about to try to do the same for a project ...

Yeah, unfortunately most of the options out there require JavaScript and thus aren't supported in PDF outputs. We use various "pre" tags to format our code. In Flare, you can select the "pre" style and paste the code into the topic. As soon as you paste the content, there is a small clipboard ...

Yeah, I ran into this as well. I meant to file a bug with TS, but never got around to it.

My workaround was to change the default font color for the Search Result Link (#0185D1) to match the color of the first link that was acting up (#1155cc). Not the best solution, but an easy workaround.