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Hi,

We create Webhelp that our customers install locally. We dont have MOTW enabled because we did not want to tie ourselves down regarding the ability to link to external files in the future. So, ordinarily when you open the help in IE you get the flashing bar saying you need to allow Active X. To ...

There isn't any purpose-built scripting in Flare so it sounds like a good candidate for a feature request to me. Flare is centred around the concept of a (Flare) TOC and this seems like a natural extension of that idea -- you want your TOC to drive the whole build process without the need for ...

Hi Dániel,

I see what you are trying to do now. I am not aware of a way to do this in Flare, but if your output (or intermediate output) is HTML then maybe you could hunt in Google for some free utility that is usually used to check and fix broken links on website pages.

Adrian

i. Apply a condition to the topics that are not in the TOC. (That is, apply the condition to the actual topic files.)
ii. Apply the same condition to your hyperlinks. In Exclude Action, choose Unbind.
iii. Set your target to exclude this condition
> When the target is built the text from the ...

You could apply a condition to all topics that are not in your TOC then set the target to exclude that condition.

In fact, if you do this you can also use conditions to sort out your issue of removing hyperlinks when the topic is not available. I will reply to your other post...

Adrian

Ah. Just seen that post was from 2009. Well, you probably figured it out yourself by now

You can work around this in Explorer as follows:

i. Share your root Flare folder (the one with the FLPRJ in) as a network folder. Set permissions so that only you or local administrators can access it.
ii. Create a mapping to the shared folder that you just created
> The folder now appears as a ...

This issue can occur if you have a desktop search engine indexing the Flare project folders. I use Copernic Desktop and it happens all the time with that. Not a big deal...I just close it down temporarily when generating Flare outputs. It always solves the issue. (You could also configure it not to ...

Thanks Dave. You have confirmed the way I thought it worked, but not really answered my question. To phrase it a different way, I am considering putting in an enhancement request to have a setting that controls whether or not you can still apply a topic-specific CSS when you have set a CSS for the ...

Hi,

95% of my topics use one CSS while 5% use another. I would like to be able to set a default CSS for the whole project but be able to override it for particular topics. Right now this does not seem to be possible. If I set a CSS at the project level it is no longer able to set a CSS at the topic ...

My machine: Windows 7 Enterprise SP1, IE 9.0.8....

The Problem:
i. I made a very simple test HTML topic with this code in the body:
<input type=button onClick="parent.location='http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/'" value='Click here'>
ii. I generate a one topic CHM from this (no errors on generating)
iii. I ...

Thanks Jason, that's very helpful. Looking at the instructions I think I was wrong in my assumption that the filetype would be general to all Flare projects -- you need to set up rules related to each element and the list of possible elements will depend on your stylesheets. Is that right?

Cheers ...

Hi,

Trados is only recognising our Flare topic files if we change the extension to XML. I have never used Trados myself (the localization person is in another office) but apparently, we need to create an SDLFILETYPE definition file specifically for Flare imports so that Trados knows which parts of ...

I found the problem. It's in my topic code. This is the code corresponding to the last pgf of text in the "long" cell:

<p>TEXT</p>&#160</td>

I noticed the "&#160" part was not embedded inside a <p> tag (or any other tag within the td tag for that matter). So I figured it must be there my mistake ...

I don't think this would matter, but you might try setting the vertical align on all three columns to top and see if that helps. Perhaps having alignment of middle on the first and third columns is making it hard to figure out where/how to split those columns.

Good suggestion but didn't make any ...

I don't think the tablestyles have settings to control page breaks -- I think they inherit what you've got going on in the main CSS style sheet.
This sounds like a difference between versions. I'm on 7.2. In the table style editor at the bottom of the General tab and Rows tab there is a button ...

..and when I open the topic in a text editor I dont see any locally applied page-break settings.

...and the paragraph before the table does not have "page-break after" set for it either

Got a problem that is driving me nuts...

Instead of starting after the previous pgf my table is jumping to the start of the next page. This is because the first row is too big to fit on the current page (if I make it shorter it does start ok). I am using a table style for the table. So, I figured ...

Thanks Leon. I've corrected the doc. When I saw the code in question I tried to reproduce it in the XML Editor and was unable to do so. At that point I assumed it was a bug similar to the known bugs with removing conditional text. However, the doc did begin life as a converted FrameMaker project so ...

Hi,

I attached a zipped Word doc with tips for finding/replacing in Flare that may be of interest to others. The doc describes how to find (and in some cases replace) the following:

• Highlighting
• Variables
• Conditions
• Tables
• Bookmarks

Please let me know if there are any errors ...

Adrian - Did you end up submitting an enhancement request? I'm at version 5.0.0 and it appears these simple editing capabilities are still missing.

I did. Actually, my comments were related to V5. I encourage you and anyone else who would like better editing tools in Capture to submit an ...

Hi,

I am wondering if your issue is related to one I posted recently: ( http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=13128 )?

We too found that Trados does not recognize Flare source files. However, we observed that it does recognize them if we change the extension of each topic file from ...

Just to clarify things...the solution I proposed does not require Lingo. However, there may be a better way to do what you want using Lingo. I don't have it so can't comment on that.

Hi,

I think the important point to note here is that if a label is not explicitly defined in a skin file then Flare uses hardcoded defaults. You can see this for yourself by opening the default skin in a text editor -- it does not have any labels defined and yet a Webhelp built with the skin will ...