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I just came into a writing team who is using a fairly basic stylesheet... However, I noticed that their images are also within p tags. This is the same for numbers and lists.

I have usually kept p tags away from images and lists, etc. But now I'm not sure that's a best practice. I'm struggling to ...

The other day I sent a PM to one of the experts (i.e., Dave Lee) in the forum to ask about where I could find information about tabs in topics as I've not been able to find anything in the Flare help system... These are something I've wanted to use since they came out. I have been unable to find ...

GREAT! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!

I am being appointed as the Tech Writing team's project architect. I have been tasked with providing background information on just what that entails, what the job description would be, and then create a best practices guide.

It is my hope that someone in this forum can provide resources and ...

I'm working with an insanely large number of phrases in micro content, and i'm wondering if there's a shortcut I'm missing that allows me to just add a phrase instead of having to scroll back up to the the icon each time.

We inherited an old project that contains a glossary. When a glossary word shows up in a Search in the published help, it's fine, but it doesn't take you anywhere... so I was wondering if anyone has any ideas for how to mark those entries so that when they show up in a search, the user knows that it ...

I am fairly new to Capture. I used it years ago... like over a decade. I'm trying to relearn it. I was trying to set up my profile. I had gone in and cropped an image and set up its appearance, etc. I saved that to my profile. But now, any time I do another capture, it's automatically bringing the ...

FILE LIST! DUH! I should have thought of checking that! Thanks so much...

I am trying to create a report that just shows me the topics in the project. I need to then convert that to a .csv file. I can create such a report in Central, but I don't see a way to then export that report into a csv file. I've googled, but I don't see where that's possible. I tried creating such ...

ok... that's exactly what I thought... darn... this image was not created via Capture...

Thank you so much for your response... I guess I have to do it the old way... Thanks again!

I was given an image that already had highlights in it. There is no .props file for it - it's just a png file sent to me by someone else. I have been told it's easy to remove this highlight stuff in Capture, but I'm not finding anything but erase, which takes out everything - not just the highlight ...

I have just begun a new position. One of my tasks is to figure out how to make a tiny image more user friendly. Currently, the screen shots are so small in some of the documents that they are usable. You can't see what's on the screen so what's the point? I've suggested that we create a focal point ...

Thanks Psider - I'm glad I wasn't too far off from the considerations that need to be made. I'm just about to interview with the company so I wanted to have a few tidbits in my pocket so I don't sound totally ignorant of the process.

Thanks for taking the time to provide such detail!

I am initially looking for what the basic steps would be for such a project. I am interviewing for a position where they are looking for someone who can make this conversion. I have experience converting, but it's been many years - and MANY years that I've even looked at RoboHelp, so I don't recall ...

Suddenly, I cannot preview any of my projects using "View Primary" once I build. This is happening since the upgrade. I upgraded on Friday and went to work on a new project today and found that the View Primary is giving me an error. Not sure where to fix this issue.

I don't usually send in urgent issues... but this one is definitely urgent.

Suddenly, I cannot preview any of my projects using "View Primary" once I build. I'm getting the "Your File was not Found" (it was moved or deleted). But they were working previously.

Also.... one of my projects shows ...

I am not using OL to create steps. Instead I have them set up as paragraphs so i can more easily control numbering format. However, the auto numbers showing up are bold - when the text of the steps are not. I can find no style setting that indicates that there is any "bold" font weight set to bold ...

Thanks, Jeff... I do know how to change the image... However, I don't see a way to remove an image. I don't want to replace it, i want to remove it completely.... so that there's just the text that shows, rather than a open/close image... Is there a trick to doing that? What am I not seeing?

Also ...

I am endeavoring to do some clean up and simplification of the UI we have styled for the online help. It currently looks a bit busy and I'd like to have some togglers at the end of a paragraph.

To do so, I'd like to not have an image showing the the left of the toggler... is there a way to do this ...

yes... i also have a copy on our network from a couple of days ago.. i'm going thru that now.. but yes... I can pull stuff down from Git if I need it... Thanks!

Thanks, @ChoccieMuffin...

After I thought about it, i realized why the props is necessary since there's no "text" in an image file like there is with topics or snippets...

Git is not integrated with Flare... the last time we tried to integrate source control with Flare it was a HUGE problem ...

well... dang it... ok then... and my entire project gets saved into Git each evening.. but thanks for that warning... i deleted a bunch of the prop files... are they regenerated when i start Flare or maybe if I delete the output and analyzer folders... i'll know soon!

Thanks!

hmmm... i have been setting conditions on a lot of things... the prop files I've seen are all in the various image file folders in my project. While some of the images themselves are conditionalized, none of the image folders are conditionalized.

I have been noticing that some how prop files are showing up in all my project image folders... I am not using Capture - which I know can create them. I'm just adding images that I create elsewhere.

Is there a way to stop these .prop files from showing up?

Thanks.

Hi,

I use Flare as my authoring tool... and I have a license for Capture, but seldom use it. However, recently/suddenly, I've noticed than somehow when I add a new image to my Flare project, a .props file is being created as well. I have no idea how or why this is happening - since not only am I ...