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What version of Flare and FrameMaker? I had problems with Flare 4 and imported conditions (when appearing at the start of a paragraph and ending part way through) not being applied. I raised a bug and it appears to be fixed though in later versions.

Did you try looking at imported topics in a text ...

Short answer is no, you can't have breadcrumbs without a master page (and TOC).

The good news is master pages are only used in the build process, you don't need to distribute them with your output. Go into the output folder and copy only the generated htm files, along with other relevant Content ...

This is my first web help site built using Flare 6. It's pretty vanilla-flavoured but it all works, as far as I know. There is also a toolbar link to a PDF version of the same guide, which also generated using Flare.

http://www.sparkintegration.com/systembuildermanual/

Overall, I'm pretty ...

I would try reinstalling Acrobat. I've run into problems in the past where FrameMaker was installed after Acrobat, and Flare gets confused between the PDF Maker tool installed with FM and the full version of Acrobat. Reinstalling Acrobat has solved the problem.

Cheers
Greg

So you are merging help systems and the TOC for the master project is not appearing as you want, and you want more info from the Flare help? Hopefully the following info is of use.

There are a few different methods of merging help systems using Flare.

There is a Flare help topic "Merging ...

I think it varies depending on target. For me, HTML help strips the link info but leaves the text, for word output the link and text is removed.

What have you found?

Cheers
Greg

Yep, in your stylesheet create a new span class (call it DisableGlossary for example). The only property for that class should be mc-disable-glossary-terms , which you set to true. Then for every instance of "Order" you do not want a glossary entry for, apply the Span.DisableGlossary class.

This ...

In Flare the content files are xhtml (not xml) - and I'm not sure your database would be able to handle that? If it can then your idea may be feasible, I would have a play with the Flare sample project and open files in a text editor to see the kind of format(s) the various files require. In ...

One additional note, the auto-reimport option was never that great anyway. It only reimports when there is a time-stamp change on a FrameMaker book, not the files within that book. Quite often there can be changes to files, but no actual update to the book and Flare would not pick this up. So as I ...

It's a bug. "Auto-reimport before 'Generate Output'" doesn't work very will in Flare 5/6, and as you observed creates a lot of duplicate files. Instead, clear that option, and use the manual method (this is better anyway as it gives you more control as to when you reimport.

To manually reimport:
1 ...

Same project (pros): you can easily reuse styles, master pages, skins etc.
(cons): you have to use conditions to exclude irrelevant content.

My 2c - the pros outweigh the slight overhead of topic or folder conditions, so I would definitely use the same project.

Cheers
Greg

In the dialog "Link to Flare Project and Target" (that appears when merging project via the TOC) there is the following text:
Select a target from the project being merged. This target must be the same type (DotNet Help, HTML Help, WebHelp, WebHelp Plus, WebHelp Mobile or WebHelp AIR) as the target ...

Also, all topics within 1 folder are listed with "Missing Source Link . . ." errors. They have previously compiled and "linked" just fine.

Can you clarify the above statement? Does that happen in the Content Explorer?
Also, do you do anything fancy in the TOC like linking to another project's ...

I think you'll need your best investigator's hat on for this one :)

Working backwards:
1) Does the same problem occur in the published location (i.e. before SVN check-in?) If not, then there may be a problem with SVN.
2) Does the same problem occur in your output folder? If not, then there may be ...

Would this also work for the scenario where I'm generating the multi-language PDF from the English project?
I imagine so, as you can select a stylesheet at the topic-level, allowing you to mix different stylesheets in a project. (being topic level, this assumes you don't mix languages in the same ...

You are right with your assumption, the online targets (webhelp, HTML help etc) will search through every topic in the project, even if not in the TOC. It's not so weird when you think of the TOC as one way to access information (not the only way) and some projects may be set up with a minimal TOC ...

I fear this won't help in your situation (due to the QRC), but we use mediums for the different languages and it works quite well. E.g.
@media French
{
P.Note
{
mc-auto-number-format: 'Remarque : ';
}
}
We select the French medium when building a French target and all the notes, tips etc are ...

Short Lines I think is just for the output (e.g. PDF) only.
I don't think it is the internal text editor's word wrapping (although you might want to disable the "Word Wrapping" button above the internal text editor and see if it makes a difference.
I don't think it is hard returns, as viewing a ...

Build webhelp (or webhelp mobile) as normal (i.e. with the TOC and skin etc). But then only distribute the HTM, CSS and image files from your output/target/ content directory (i.e. don't send Default.htm, Default.js etc, or the "Data" or "Skin" folders).

Note: your developers will need to address ...

careful though, your users might want to copy and paste the code to use for themselves?

See http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... &sk=t&sd=a for info on other things to try, including a link to a syntax coloring site

Cheers
Greg

3 things you've touched on:
The TOC (name based on import file) will be overwritten each reimport. The only way around this is to break the link (e.g. make a a copy of the file and use that in your targets), but you have to manually update the TOC(s) each time with any new topics. As a tip, open ...

brad friesen wrote: It's too bad you can't do this with the TOC proxy

I thought you could, using "mc-heading-level"? Do headings still appear in the mini-TOC if you set "mc-heading-level" to 0 for say headings 3,4, 5?

I would document the minutes in word, and import into Flare and generate webhelp (while maintaining the original in word). Next meeting, update the original word doc and reimport. That should pass the "bus" test, and give you the extra flexibility you need to produce various outputs and impress the ...

Hopefully I've understood your workflow, you will import from FrameMaker to Flare, then export to DITA (one way). And then author and maintain content in DITA, import back to Flare (multiple times), then use Flare to generate PDF, webhelp, and other targets?
We've used Flare and DITA in a similar ...

No easy way from Flare sorry, and it will be quite a job sorting topics manually afterwards (especially if there are a lot of links you need to resolve). It might be easier to work with the word document before you import. Split or merge topics in Word using headings, and then in the import file ...