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Andrew wrote:I suppose you should be able to get the same effect using non-breaking spaces, so perhaps this should be a bug.

How do you do those in Flare? (I remember another topic that mentioned a way, but it was convoluted, I couldn't get it to work and I no longer remember what it was).

I think the absence of automatic change indicators is an even bigger problem if using X-Edit for reviewers - which we've given up using because of this lack of functionality.

I've logged it as a change request on the website (I know I'm not the only one), face-to-face with a senior MadCap person ...

Aha. That's great. I've found and removed the hidden dependency to the topic, via the text editor.

I'm still in a muddle with the alias file though - not helped by the fact that this project has two of them (and two header files), and I can only fully test if I've broken it or not once the project ...

I'm not sure if I'm missing something, going mad, or have found a bug, but the list of dependencies doesn't seem to be updating. I'm using version 5, with source control via TFS.

There is a topic I want to delete, so I changed and removed links in other topics, then in the Content Explorer viewed ...

Too late for this project, but another time it would be worth considering using Global Project Linking .

You can import topics and snippets etc from one project to another (though only edit them in the source/parent), so that in the destination, they appear in the Content Explorer and you can ...

I have looked for the script shown above but it does not exist in the content topics for me.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the content topics".

In case you've misunderstood my comments, let me clarify:

For each of the topics that generates the error, I go to Flare's Content Organiser, right ...

Thanks (again) Lisa.

No one else is accessing the Flare files (most colleagues couldn't, and those that could, wouldn't). It is compiled on a build server, but the problem appeared locally (before being checked into source control and built on the server)

Yes, I am using global project linking ...

Having got this sorted earlier in the summer, for which thanks, the problem has just recurred in one of the projects that didn't have the problem then (I checked every topic page of all three related projects).

It didn't take very long to fix this time, but I'm worried about how it happened and ...

Thanks - why didn't I think of trying that?

It means my other images are no longer thumbnails, but I worked that way pre v5, so it's not a big deal, and certainly far better than having the enourmous bullets.

Screenshot (I hope):

I am updating a project created by another author. It was created in Flare v4 and I am using v5, with View > Show > Show All Images as Thumbnails ticked.

All the screenshots show as thumbnails in Flare, but the correct size in the output.

However, the image used for the bullets is the other way ...

In a child project:
Project Ograniser > Imports.
Open the import file, which displays in the Project Import Editor, with the Source Project tab open.
Switch to the Imported File tab, which lists each imported file and the full path to its folder (so you need different folders for each project ...

Madcap Guru wrote:Where these Robohelp Projects at one time?

Maybe. The project predates my arrival here 2 years ago and the authors here did use RoboHelp around then.

Anyway, removing the surplus <p> </p> tags seems to have resolved it.

KevinDAmery wrote:One good way around this is to hide the image in a toggler or dropdown.

In Flare v5, the thumbnail functionality is much improved and can make an excellent compromise for help files, albeit not so great for PDF.

If anyone else gets this problem, apparently it arises when :
These topics were "re-used." These topics were part of a already compiled help file by Flare. The reason why you did not get the errors when compiling with Flare 3 is because Flare 3 was less strict with its XML format.
If you use files ...

The mk:@MSITStore:C:\WINDOWS\Help\ bit gets plenty of Google hits, but many of them are very old (one suggests reinstalling IE6!), though several suggest re-registering the hhctrl.ocx file with Windows. But if that was necessary, surely all three projects would exhibit the problem? So, now that I've ...

KevinDAmery wrote:Now, why one of Madcap's scripts would be failing is beyond me

or why it's only some topics in one of the projects.

Anyway, thanks for the pointer. It sounds beyond my skill, so I've logged it with support (though as I only have Bronze level, it may be several days till I get a response).

I've just upgraded to Flare v5 and have 3 projects, with HTML help as the target output.

Since the upgrade, one of them has 16 topics (out of 99) where, if you click on them in the TOC of the compiled help, you get these errors. Oddly, the line and character numbers quoted in the error are the same ...

Thanks, I've rebooted and recompiled etc plenty of times.

Also, I've just upgraded to Flare v5 and now the stack overflow is at line 137, but when I opened the topic in the text editor, it only has 28 lines!

Anyway, it's only a short topic, and the only oddity I could see was a superflous pair ...

I can find various references to this on the web, but most are not specific to help and none are any help to me.

I have three current Flare projects that generate html help.

When you open one of them, if you click in the main/right panel for the first/default topic, a Windows Internet Explorer ...

I have plenty of drop downs that include snippets, but I sometimes had problems with formatting etc in drop downs.

Now, I always create all the content (typed, imported, snippets and whatever else) before selecting an area as a drop down, and I don't have any problems.

Similarly, if I'm doing ...

I don't think there's anything technical to stop you importing from child to parent. However, in all but the smallest projects, that could get very confusing.

Could you have all the shared topics in the parent, but for the ones that will only appear in the child, just not include them in the ...

I've given up on it too, because
You can't set Revision Marks (or similar), so reviewers either have to use Comments for everything (ludicrous) or correct it in situ (so you can't see what's changed)
There is no Compare function to see differences between the reviewed and the source
If you ...

The only way I can get it to work is to change the suffix from CHM to anything else. I then zip and email them, with instructions to unzip, save to local drive with suffix amended to CHM and that usually works.
Good luck.

The installation of X-Edit itself has improved and slimmed down since its first release (menioned in other topics on this forum), so I'm not sure that's a show-stopper for those who already have dot net 3.

However, you're not necessarily missing out. X-Edit could be so good, and I've had no problem ...