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There's a third solution to the topic linking that avoids both downsides that LTinker68 discusses. It works really well for me, though perhaps it wouldn't work for every situation.

Book A links to Book_A_Topic (which is NOT in the TOC)
- Topic A
- Topic B

When someone clicks on Book A, they see ...

Is there a way to hide the Toolbar entirely for all pages?

regards,

Marina

First, the good news: a customized toolbar, no accordion items, and no frames CAN BE DONE (see image below).
Now, the bad news: I could only complete it by hacking the HTML code in the output files. Maybe that's because I'm using Flare 2.5; maybe 4.0 has more skin options?

Anyone know a skins ...

I don't know if this is helpful at all, but when one of our QA guys tried opening the WebHelp files locally using Firefox, he had problems with links not working because the help was looking for the link target at /Content/Content/, where there was actually only one /Content/ directory. I don't use ...

After some discussion, it looks like we are going to use Flare to create the user's guide after all. At least, that's the plan this week.

The look and feel: I am a contractor, which gives me less weight in these discussions. I think Flare is a great tool for documentation, for many reasons ...

Thanks for the helpful replies. I agree that if we do anything custom that has to be manually done, we shouldn't do it. However, there is a box for entering JavaScript for the toolbar--that is probably our only choice aside from, perhaps, having the header at the top of each topic page instead. Less ...

My client is creating a developer support site for their products. For all new documentation, they have asked me to use a Wiki instead of Flare. We are keeping the current reference documentation in Flare format, but they would like the Flare output to look less help-like.

Issue #1: Custom Toolbar ...

This is way late as a reply, but I was searching to see if someone else had submitted the issue about <i> and <b> versus <em> and <strong>. The WC3 accessibility requirements state that <em> and <strong> should be used for italics and bold instead of <i> and <b>. However, when using the XML editor ...

Thank you!

How do I submit a feature request?

Thanks for the responses!

I did know about publishing to a different location.

The issue was raised because I was putting all my project files into version control (Subversion), and I had been thinking that perhaps the developers could just take the output from my project file directory. But they ...

Right now, I have the following structure for my Flare Help project:

C:\...\Output\Marina Michaels\Help

Is there some way I can change the project properties to remove the \Marina Michaels\ directory? It's just me, so I don't need that directory layer.

Thanks!

regards,

Marina

Thank you!

I've poked around in the Flare help and on the forums here but I haven't found the answer to these questions.

1. I want to make a copy of my existing Flare project (with a new name for the copy) so that both versions are viable and can be worked on.

2. I also want to move both the existing project ...

Doc Guy's answer is excellent. I whole-heartedly agree about learning CSS. I am thankful every time I edit the CSS in Flare for an excellent class I took last year in CSS.

One thing I might add is that, if you want different styles for different images, you can create a new class in your style ...

And on a related note, if you don't already know XHTML and CSS, it could be well worth the time invested to learn about them.

1. Knowing XHTML is useful for when you want to edit using the internal text editor (which I do a lot to clean up artifacts from copying, pasting, and deleting when in the ...

The fast response is one of the many reasons why I am happy to have chosen Flare. That, and the fact that I am absolutely loving it as a tool.

Hey! I'm a Baby Propeller Head!

Thanks! I think I understand that part. And I am getting the results I want, but I am not entirely sure I know what I am doing.

What I wanted was this: When someone clicks on the book, I wanted them to either see nothing, or see information about the book, but I didn't want a visible topic in the ...

Thank you to both of you!

Dave, your explanation improved my understanding of master pages by a huge amount. That part worked perfectly. Thank you!

As for the links, I am still trying to understand that part. I'll spend some time reading the help and experimenting to increase my understanding of ...

...(Why oh why don't browser manufacturers allow you to run two flavors of the same browser?)

There is another solution. It is known by the remarkably uninformative name of "User Agent String Utility." If you have IE 7 installed, it emulates IE6. It comes from Microsoft with the usual disclaimers ...

I'm generating WebHelp and using Flare 3.1 on Windows XP Pro SP 2 or 3.

Here is what I want to do:

1. I want to use breadcrumbs on most pages, but not on the title page and the welcome page. Do I need to create a different master page for the title and welcome pages?

2. I want the breadcrumbs to ...

Thanks!

Apparently my renaming of my "My Documents" folder has confused Flare, because there is no "My Templates" folder in my "Active" folder (which is "My Documents" in disguise).

Is there another location where the "My Templates" folder might be? Or can I just go ahead and create that folder ...

Ah, I see. *smile*

I have been voluntarily free of television service since 1996, so many cultural references pass me by.

What location do I unzip the file to?