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We consider our Home page to be slightly outside the Book/Page TOC structure. That is, if you're on Book 3, Page 8, and you want to return to Home, you must either Refresh the browser or click the Home toolbar icon (WebHelp or topic toolbars) if enabled by you.

The idea in breadcrumbs is to allow ...

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Wise choice!

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If you place a graphic at the start of the drop-down head paragraph, and then assign text to the Screen Tip and Alternate Text fields in the Edit Picture window, you might get what you're looking for.

Of course, this graphic might look strange next to the Flare default "twistie," so you could ...

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[Changed title from "Inserting Nested Drop-Downs" and edited content]

The Insert Drop-down Text feature can be disabled if there is a table at or near the bottom of the potential drop-down content. The fact that this first bit me when I was attempting to create a third nested drop-down is what ...

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Sorry, Robin, those plus tags have nothing to do with a possible RoboHelp conversion.

I know: we've converted two 40-project merged WebHelp systems from RH to Flare, and there's no such code anywhere in the files.

Good luck,
Leon

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It's the next to last button on the XML Editor toolbar, a <t> button. Click its down arrow to reveal the Show Markers and Show Inline Markers options.

Good luck,
Leon

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At this point, I'd suggest the nuclear option: create a new project and set your styles in the default Styles.css. (See the http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp site for css tutorials.)

Then create a new topic, copy content from the old project into Notepad (to flush all the bad stuff), then ...

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You're sure there's nothing in the <head></head> section of the topic that reads like:

p+ {
font blah, blah;
}

And you're sure that there was never a style sheet that has been misplaced?

You might try making a copy of the project, and in that copy using Find and Replace to eliminate the + in ...

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I'd try to identify where those + characters (<h2+>, <p+>, etc.) are coming from. I've never seen that; has anyone else? There's probably a lot of stuff in the <head></head> section of the individual topics (much like when you Save As Html from Word), based on whatever conversion was involved to get ...

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As to the float attribute and lists, I believe Flare gas a serious bug. I haven't had time to test it further, but I'm using float: left and it works in multiple p. classes OK, but in lists not so OK. (The number or bullet overrides the graphic, and the graphic is outdented.)

However, the float ...

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Sometimes a mule needs a solid two-by-four to the forehead, so as to get its attention!

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Is there a span style (in a style sheet) assigned to those words? That is, "<span class="fields">Settings</span>" with a "span.fields" class inside your .css file?
That .css file might not even be inside your project source folder, but does still reside in the output folder you're publishing to ...

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Since there's only the one topic under the How To book, what's the purpose of the book at all?

Just delete it, and the Discharge a Patient page will appear above the Optional Configurations sub-entry book.

(Unless your example is not exactly like your TOC actually will appear [more pages under How ...

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First, we shorten all the paths by eliminating the "/Content" folder ( WebHelp Target > Advanced > Do not use "Content" folder in output )

From Master to child:
<a href="Subsystems/child_project/target_topic.htm">Link Text</a>

From child to child:
<a href="../other_child_project/target_topic.htm ...

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I agree with Laura about getting proficient in CSS. Again, you'd probably want a good book for that, but you can start by bookmarking http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp for the CSS Tutorial on the w3schools web site. And http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp for the HTML Tutorial.

Good ...

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I've learned to never include the trailing space when selecting text (one or more words) for span class assignment. Always end the selection (with the mouse or with Shift+Right Arrow) with the last character. This applies to any editing tool (Word, Flare, etc.).

Good luck,
Leon

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I think you missed some stuff in that replacement string. Try again.

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Not likely; Flare won't know where to break your columns, for one thing.

You could prepare the content outside a table, using commas to separate each column, like:

col1, col2, col3
col1, col2, col3
col1, col2, col3

Then select all of the lines of content and click Table > Insert > Table ; in the ...

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Do you have a "Return to Top" link in there, somewhere (<a href="#">Top</a>)?

Good luck,
Leon

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Sigh...

accordionlabel.gif

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Skin Editor > Styles > AccordionItem > TOC > Properties > General > Label > "Here's where your dash should be"

Good luck,
Leon

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peterbrown05 on Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:56 pm said:

"I would like a variable similar to <year> but one that is the 'build' date."

Yes?

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That must be the last proofreader this side of the Mississippi!

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No, Linda, this isn't the Flare Feedback product I'm describing; it's an entirely home-grown solution that happens to use the "feedback" term.

You could easily rename the .js file "reviews.js" and rename the link in each topic to "Review Comments." We just happened to pick "feedback" way before we ...

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We get good reviews from our internal people thru a link to a feedback_script.js file that pulls the file name into an email message addressed to the doc team.

The location.href in the "var mailBody" line of the feedback_script.js file will display the topic file name with the full path structure ...

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