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What version of Flare are you using? in Flare 11, I can add index levels as deep as I want -- and deeper:
flare-deep-index.png
I'm not sure what you can do to reinstate the entries you lost in the conversion. You could maybe diff the two indexes to figure out what's missing, but putting them back ...

In my experience, Chrome works better than Firefox in general. I used to be a big fan of Firefox, but ended up switching to Chrome due to some bugs, performance issues, and constant updating. But that was awhile back, and Firefox may have gotten back to their old level of quality at some point.

In ...

Over in this thread , Nita shared a link to the Flare 11 doc that explains that runtime merging isn't supported with the TopNav output:
http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare11/Content/Output/HTML5_Output/HTML5_Top_Navigation_Output.htm
"Flare's HTML5 Top Navigation skin does not support project ...

MadCap Tech Support clarified some things about this issue- there are two different logs:

The build log is target-name.mclog
The publish log is target-name.log.zip
The Upload Log File option controls whether the target-name.log.zip is published to your destination. The option isn't supposed to ...

Hi Stacey,

i just replied to your other post here, and I'm thinking that this is the same issue that's causing the "Object reference not set..." error. So the problem might be in your target. You might be able to add a few blank lines to the end of the file (opened in a text editor) and see if the ...

This is bubbling up from .NET (it's a null reference error). We've had to get help from MadCap Tech Support upon occasion. In many cases, once we identified the file causing the issue, we've been able to fix it by adding blank lines (returns) to the end of the offending file. If you can't figure out ...

You can define a new paragraph style that includes an autonumber with the mc-autonumber-position set to inside-tail. Give it an offset to separate it from the Article #: span:
mc-auto-number-format: N:{n+}
mc-auto-number-offset: 1.00em
mc-auto-number-position: inside-tail

The only problem with ...

joele wrote:I have observed the following behavior in Flare 11:

I just ran into this today in Flare 11. It seems to happen regardless of the target type -- PDF and HTML5 in my case. I logged it with MadCap too.

Thanks,

Kristen

Dave Lee wrote:In v11, the toolbar ribbon is only displayed if the project that's open uses source control.

I checked this with no project open, and it appears on my ribbon. It also appears in a project that's not bound.

Thanks,

Kristen

This is a great question -- the way you get to the source control UI changed between 10 and 11, and in 11, it isn't shown by default. Try View > Source Control Explorer (in the ribbon view).

Thanks,

Kristen

I don't think I've run into this specific problem, but I sometimes see inconsistent behavior when using Flare's source control integration with Subversion (particularly with add and delete). I think the consensus at this point is that when Flare seems to be having trouble with Subversion, use ...

I think it's not possible to add an index to HTML5 Top Nav, if you mean an index mechanism that the user can search and scroll through, as one sees in Tri-pane. I tried experimenting with adding an index "page" to Top Nav output but didn't like the results.

If I understood the 'say goodbye to ...

What source control system are you using, BaritoneJP?

In our case, we integrate with Subversion. Previously, we were attaching to it using SVN+SSL, and performance was an issue. We changed our authentication method to LDAP, and saw major performance improvements.

Thanks,

Kristen

Is there any way to make variable values, instead of variable names, appear in the search hit titles?

That's how it's supposed to work, and is working in my projects.

Obviously, the variables aren't missing, because the correct values appear in the summary. Without knowing more about your ...

Thank you, Paulie and wclass for your comments -- very helpful!

-K

This has stymied me in the past as well. Look farther down the menu and to its right-most side -- you'll see a little cog icon and the Options label (next to Exit). -K

Thanks for the info, Dave.
Yes, that's about right (but it's not for tri-pane).
I was trying to distinguish between tri-pane and TopNav types of output, but obviously didn't manage it.

build and integrate your own navigation and search into the page
We've done something similar with our ...

While looking through MadCap's Flare documentation for information about creating HTML targets that don't include the skin, I came across this:
Theoretically, you could have HTML5 output without either a full skin or components, but that would be rare. In most cases, you will want to include skin ...

Quick update: later this week, I'll be meeting with the web developer who concocted this solution. It might take me a bit to get it written up, but I'll try to make some time for it soon.

-K

SteveS wrote: I'd click that to deactivate the current installation and free the licence if you ever need to install Flare on another machine..

Good call, Steve. I should have recommended that.

-K

Hi Cheryl,

You can uninstall programs from the Windows Contyrol Panel: Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features > MadCap Flare vX > Uninstall.

-K

Don't thank me yet! Our web team is absolutely swamped so we'll have to see if they give me something useful.

Our Web Team has this working pretty nicely, though I don't know the ins and outs. I've asked the team to put together a brief summary, and will post it if I get something helpful.

Thanks,

Kristen

Once we moved to the new server, we stopped having issues with delete.
Another great theory shot down by data.... late last week (at the end of our release cycle, naturally) we came across some added files that hadn't been committed by the Flare Check in All command. We had to check-in from the ...

We run into this error pretty frequently (in v10), and have had to get help from MadCap Tech Support. In many cases, once we identified the file causing the issue, we've been able to fix it by adding blank lines (returns) to the end of the offending file. If you can't figure out which file is ...