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We just released a new version of our product last week and it was equipped with a shiny new WebHelp help system from Flare for the first time. I thought Flare's WebHelp was a panacea after putting up with RoboHelp's WebHelp all these years. Boy were we in for a surprise.

RoboHelp's WebHelp was ...

Can anyone tell me if Flare has an equivalent feature to this:

In RoboHelp, after I create a bunch of new topics, I could go use the Topics view and sort the "TOC" column to separate all the "No" from the "Yes". This quickly shows me which new topic needs to be added to the TOC. Ditto for adding ...

If you right-click a topic tab there's an option to close all other open topics, and you only have to confirm saving all of them.
It's a lot quicker than closing and confirming the save for each individual topic.

Yes, in the absence of an auto save feature (or "close and auto save"), this is ...

Flare corrects one of RH's greatest weaknesses: the ability to edit multiple topics simultaneously. However there are times when the old RH behaviour is actually desirable. Is there any way to get Flare to automatically save and close (without prompting) the current topic when a new topic is opened ...

I had a quick look at the code - the RH topics had the column measurements at the table level AND in each <td> line as well. When we imported, we did some global find/replace, and removed the inline measurements from the td lines to clean up our code, but the widths had looked OK.

I took a look ...

Ah...thanks for the tip, Kevin. So now I must go from a "half baked" feature in Flare to one that is more complete, but admittedly the weakest part of Flare--your XML code editor. I've read about the unusability of this editor and the critics were right. The RoboHelp TrueCode editor is indeed far ...

Whoops...I just discovered that the "+" signs are actually toggles to show/hide subordinate content. A bit confusing initially, but very neat. But it is easy to get lost within the code after toggling and untoggling the various bits.

I think I'll just chalk this up as a conversion glitch--I'm ...

Thanks for the tip, Kevin. I took a look at the code and the only thing out of the ordinary that I could see is that there are mysterious "+" signs appended to my HTML code--for example, it shows "<table+>", "<tr+>", and "<td+>" instead of the normal "<table>", "<tr>", and "<td>". Do you suppose ...

I imported a sample project from RoboHelp X5 into Flare 3.1. Everything seemed to come over properly, however all the tables in the converted topics look "squished" in the editor, though they preview and compile normally. By "squished" I mean visually the table is displayed as a long and narrow ...