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Check if you see a change after disabling headers from repeating at page breaks. That'll pinpoint it to the table itself or the page break logic for tables. It probably wo't solve it, but it'll be another data point to give MadCap.

@mishu6779,

You might consider using a good text editor that has a search and replace in files. Everything you'll need to change is only text, so it's way easier than opening files in Flare.

I've used TextPad to good effect when confronted with a similar issue.

sarrantsvt wrote:Corporate IT got back to me on this. Madcap Flare needs to go through a security review. I'll need to fill out a form and questionnaire and so will Madcap software.

Thanks for posting back! I know they want to be safe, but...

If you open the Flare Options dialog, on the General tab, do you have the Prefer Local Help option enabled?
If not, that may be why it doesn't launch locally, provided you downloaded it.
Thanks, that was it. Wow, that makes no sense what so ever. How stupid a software Flare sometimes can be ...

The JS on their site is pretty "generic" in that it isn't special or particularly unique except that it works together. Bet you a dime you can find almost this exact functionality on a Javascript site either offered freely or at less cost than bringing in a consultant for a few hours of basic coding.

I fixed the issue.


I opened my target, went to the Advanced tab, and unchecked Use TOC Depth for Heading Levels. Due to the affected topics’ depth some h2 headings were turning into h6. I hadn’t stylised h6.

So I could uncheck that field, or stylise h6 (I did both).


Nice find. That's one to ...

Thanks for all the good insights, including the downsides of markup. Maybe a reason so many writers use the markup/static site generator combo is they don't have a better tool like Flare. Pure speculation but maybe they're making do with existing and free tools. I'll stick with Flare.

Devs ...

Flare doesn't offer what you're after. One can't add a new language and define its highlighting rules, nor can one edit an existing language's highlighting rules. This is something I'd like, too, and I've submitted a feature request. I suggest you do so, too.


Done. Love the highlighting, but ...

Flare's has no position there.

Flare should be at the top of that toolchain with Markdown files as import objects. Markdown barely provides basic text formatting and isn't a suitable tool for writing documentation that needs regular updating, material needing more than basic formatting and tables ...

If you generated the docs in Python-Markdown or Sphinx markdown or almost any markdown, you might get better results by using Pandoc to convert them to xhtml and then importing those into Flare. I'm in the middle of a conversion project and Pandoc saved me many hours of clean-up work. Flare has a ...

@doloremipsum, that is brilliant advice!


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In Flare I'll have to go back and remove "moduleX-" from the headers, which drives the left nav links. It's tedious, but that's why the good Lord invented audiobooks and find/replace.

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[*]Still looking for your favorite Flare guide, other than ...

Thanks, Kathryn! I just started using Mimic again and this is very useful. I'll be using this going for training/tutorial voice overs.

I don't think there is any way to split the build/publish cycle into a build and a publish. I wish there were. My only suggestion is publishing to a staging area and testing errorlevels for madbuild exit codes. If it's not EQU 0, then you abort the copy process that puts your output in the publish ...

Hi I do something like that. I generate all the PDFs and publish them to a directory under content. Then I add the links in the HTML5 and set the conditions to not show that line in PDF.

After that, I call a batch job to build/publish the pdfs and then I build/publish the help.

Hi,

Is it linked so that you can find it?

Is it in a TOC.

Check the setting of Project Prop > Advanced > Exclude content not linked directly or indirectly from the target. If the topic isn't linked and the setting is checked, the topic won't get pulled in.

Did this begin as an imported file? If so, is Target > General > Auto-Sync checked? That error make it sound as though Flare is accessing Word, which is choking on choking on spelling issues (been there) and then hanging, which causes the build to fail because Word isn't answering.

I'm not certain what is happening. It sounds as though you are accidentally using the same modified page layout on an entry in two TOCs. It's been a while since I set up my pages, but I don't remember seeing any icons from MadCap on my page layouts. Did you mean the foot frame:

https://i.imgur.com ...

Right. In this case we call them Targets and they're based on the final published format (HTML5, PDF, etc). Each target has a a set of conditions and a reference to a TOC. The conditions you set on the content decides if a piece is excluded or included in the target build. You can have a separate ...

You can still use one large project with a target for each client. Page assignment on a TOC entry affect all following topics until another change occurs.

It'll be best to create a separate TOC and page layout to associate with a target for each client.

Have you applied any conditions to the ...

I've had issues with Flare not believing the PDF was actually closed until I closed Acrobat, not just dismissed the file. A couple of times even having an Explorer open that was used to look in to the put put directory kept it from working. I tend to think that this is a windows issue.

Hi Phil,

I would go about this using the CSS for style things as you said and then use the properties settings of each TOC sentry to pull in the desired page layout for that client.

Yes, it does, Flare uses conditional markers with which you can tag with any topic, image, or bit of text and then associate that marker with a build Target. The Target can include or exclude markers based on what is needed for that particular client.

It sounds as though you'll need to tag a lot of ...

@Dave1975 - That option generates a thumbnail that is included in the output. That avoids issues with browsers not rendering a decent image using the width/height tags.

@slpha66 I have a combination of jpg, bmp, and png images, and it looks fine on all of them. That's what I started with, too. I ...

Are you using the "Advanced > Generate resized copies of scaled images" setting in your project? If not, the browser is scaling the thumbnail image as it renders the page. if you can afford the drive space it might help. I have 450px set for my max thumbnail dimensions and get decent looking ...

Have you pinged sales? They're probably the best place to start asking.