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Hello,

I added a fixed footer div to our Help outputs (highlighted in yellow in the graphic below). I'm noticing that it conceals content in some longer topics. I am unable to scroll enough so that the content clears the footer. Is there a way to fix this through css? I'm guessing I could add an ...

Thanks for the reply. After a little more trial, I figured out that was the issue.

I hadn't. I missed that setting.
Thanks.

Hello,

Is there a way to force a WebHelp TOC to automatically show the current topic you are viewing? Currently, if you're in one topic, and you follow a link to another topic elsewhere in the Help, the TOC does not update to show you where you are in the structure. Note that we do use navigation ...

Lisa,

Good to know - I will keep that in mind. I believe I based my test Page Layout on the ChapterLetter template, but I will go back and check. In the meantime, I have been able to get the styles in the page layout frames using local formatting. Not ideal, I know, but these I are styles I don't ...

I created a new Page layout and added a new footer frame to each page in the layout. In the footer frames, I created a three-column table, added text, and applied the td. styles as before. I'm experiencing the same issues:

- When I edit the text of the frame, the styles are not retained (even ...

Thanks Lisa. I will give this a shot later today.

Lisa,

I looked at one of the offending Page Layouts in the text editor, and it turns out I did have a few inline styles applied. I removed them. I then edited the frame in the Page Layout and re-applied the td styles by clicking on the td block for each cell and selecting the appropriate td style ...

Hello,

I'm working on a outline TOC for pdf output. For each chapter break, I'm using a single topic that contains the text "Chapter" and the System.ChapterNumber variable.

Capture of the Chapter.htm topic setup:
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg183/thismajorsea/Captures/ChapterNumber_Topic ...

Perhaps I didn't do this the proper way. I simply applied the td. text styles from the Styles window to the text in the table cells.

Lisa,

I tried using paragraph styles inside the table cells as well (I created p. styles to match the td. styles), with no change in result. The styles still are not retained after a save.

I'm not sure I understand your question regarding applying styles to the td block. Could you clarify?

Thanks ...

I tried as you suggested: edited the text in a frame in one page, saved the changes, then modified the text in a frame in another page and saved those changes. None of the changes in either page were retained. Sounds like a bug.

Hi Lisa,

Thanks for the reply. In this case, the target associated with this Page Layout (PDF) is not the primary target, but it does use the same stylesheet that is assigned to the primary target (WebHelp). The styles are not correct in the xml editor or the pdf output.

Todd

Hello,

I'm experiencing an annoying issue where styles applied to text in a Page Layout frame are not being saved. I've created a footer frame in the Page Layout for my Left and Right chapter pages. This frame contains a table with three columns: one for the page number, one for the Level 1 heading ...

Thanks Dave. I figured it out after a little research (I suppose I could have done that bit first). All is well now.

Hello,

I'm in the process of merging separate Flare projects into a single master project. Previously, the separate Help projects were output to chm help, which were then merged into a single chm file for distribution. So many of our topics contain hyperlinks to topics in what were external chm ...

Hello,

I recently copied content from several individual flare projects into a single master project. As expected, when I build the output (WebHelp), there are dozens of errors for missing linked stylesheet files (TableStyles, etc.). These files are present in the master project, just not in the ...

Awesome. I will give this a shot.
Thanks!

Lisa,

Great suggestion, but we use h1 pretty much everywhere. I will keep it in mind.

I'd like to use a different header/banner style at the topic level for each book in our master TOC (one header/banner style for each book) as a visual aide to remind users what book they are looking at. Short of adding a div style to every topic in the project - something I really don't want to do ...

The alternative you mention (real plan B) is exactly what I want. How is this done?

Thanks Laura. I was planning to use togglers as a Plan B if I could not figure out a way to implement a more slick mechanism for this. Togglers should do the trick.

Hello,

We have hundreds of APIs documented in our Help, and many include different content based on the version of Visual Studio the user has installed. We would like to implement a drop-down menu, similar to what is used in MSDN API topics: the user selects their version of VS, and the appropriate ...

Hi,

We use Microsoft Sandcastle to generate a Help file of code in a .chm format. We apply styles using a Presentation set in Sandcastle. The Sandcastle .chm output is fine except that we'd prefer to include bread crumb navigation (which we feature in all of our Flare-generated help projects). I ...

Is there a way to rename a Mimic project once it has been created? The name I chose for one of my projects is rather long, and has resulted in some path length issues with Perforce. It would be great if I could simply shorten the project name.

Thanks.