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How does this work with indexing? I thought I read something about how to prevent the indexing in the snippet from being picked up multiple times.

Yes, tech support came through with the correct code that worked without compiler errors. Here is the code they provided:

<object width="640" height="464"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/Zau20vxhGV4?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true ...

Thanks. I was thinking I might have to use snippets, but those tables are used in about six different places, and it just seems like a lot of extra work for something that intuitively should behave differently.

The help I am working on has some tables that are used by several different modules in the software. In the TOC, I've created separate entries, but with each entry linking to the same file. That works fine.

However, what I would expect to see is that, when someone clicks on the entry for a table ...

I closed and opened the help file and the accordions were there. I'm relieved, but now I am wondering what happened. That was in IE8, in case that matters.

Also, I hadn't done anything to the project properties in any way--I was just adding new topics.

But thanks for your input!

I just built my project and all the accordions are gone from the navigation area. The only thing present is the content tree. I haven't made any changes to my project properties; I've only been adding new topics. Does anyone have any insight into this?

I had the same problem with Flare 7 and Tortoise. I was able to revert to an earlier version of Tortoise and then just checked all the files out again to a new location (the old one was dead and unrecoverable). I am now on Flare 8 and had been hoping this had been fixed, but apparently not.

It ...

I just started getting the same error yesterday. I'm having a few other issues with SVN, which I have been getting around by closing Flare and using Tortoise to do the check ins and clean up. That worked for most of the files that weren't checking in. But I don't know how to fix the nullable object ...

Thanks for the suggestion. I would rather do the manual search and replace (i> to em>, b> to strong>, which catches both the beginning and ending tags), as that results in code that meets the accessibility requirement.

One friend of mine is blind and another is visually impaired, and they both rely ...

Hi Saffronsister! Welcome to these forums. I've gotten a lot of excellent, useful help here over the years.

The freeze might have something to do with underlying code brought in with the Word import. I've noticed that imported tables need a lot of cleaning up, which means opening the topic in the ...

Four years ago, I posted a question about whether there is any way to change Flare's default use of <i> and <b> to make them the more accessible <em> and <strong>. I also submitted an enhancement request. However, I am still seeing the same default behavior, so I am raising the question again.

The ...

CRDMerge--Thank you. I had forgotten about the reports. It isn't optimal--I was looking for something that more closely resembles the index as it is displayed--but it is good enough for my purposes.

GinnyR--that sounds like it will do exactly what I want. I am, of course, under a deadline, so CRD's ...

I would like to proof my index by printing it, file names and all. Is that possible? I am not talking about generating a print copy of the index for the users; instead, I just want to be able to see which entries have multiple references that should be made into sub-entries. (We are adding new ...

Thanks for the clarification! We have enough topics that can benefit from this that I went ahead with the alternate master topic page route. I already had two different master pages in the project anyway, so one more was easy enough to do.

My next question is, where in the style sheet do I specify ...

Thanks! I have related topics, but I don't like how they look, appearance-wise, and the organization and content is still under a lot of flux, so things are being moved around etc. etc., so I thought it would save some time and prevent errors creeping in if I automated that part.

I recall seeing topics being generated that had links to topics that were subtopics to them in the TOC file in the project. I would like to have that happen for some, but not all, book-level topics in my help file. How can I get those links to be generated, and how can I get them to be generated ...

You said "Nothing is making the glossary terms (added with Ctrl+shift+T) come out in the webhelp as anything but hyperlinks in terms of format." Are you talking about the terms that then show up in the glossary section of the help, and that have their own file under Project > Glossaries?

I've spent a little more time trying to debug this and I still get the error message. I can only open this file in the text editor, not in the WYSIWYG editor, and inexplicably the font used to display the text on the page (before the embedded video) is not what is defined in the style sheet.

I've ...

Thanks for your thoughts. I had had the same idea about the self-terminating elements, but making them self-terminating didn't work. I might try the </param>, though.

I somehow managed to get it to work, but I am getting error messages (though it compiles and runs fine), so I will continue to debug ...

I had a problem with an embedded WMV not working. Tech Support's answer was to place the WMV file in the same Content directory as the file it is embedded within, and that fixed the problem. I am creating WebHelp, though, so I don't know whether this solution would work with Windows help.

I have the same question, but Flare keeps objecting to the code I am trying to use. Here is what I want to embed (using the text editor):

<object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;">

<param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/Zau20vxhGV4?version=3&rel=0&feature=player_embedded ...

Also very interesting options. We are pressed for time so for the first release, the tutorials are staying in PowerPoint format, PDFed and linked to within the help. The project manager wants the tutorials to be printable and also usable as presentations, so the tabber idea might not work for that ...

Thanks! That's perfect!

Thanks! Could you be a bit more specific about how I can make a PDF of just a section of the help?

We have some very long topics (tutorials) that we are currently providing as PDF files within a WebHelp project. The largest is 67 pages long. We
would like to convert the tutorials into the native WebHelp format (so I can index them and also so people can more easily search for the information in ...