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i would definitely like to see the CSS3 multiple columns support for print; column-count etc that would be great. it would solve a problem i'm having now.

@cwestpha I feel your pain. thanks for the workaround.

on a related note, i'd like to generate a 'used snippets' report on a per target basis. any ideas?

thx
owen

a redirect worked as i posted above. i can't remember exactly the details, but essentially you tell the iphone browser to go to a different page than the one it loads when the help opens. i can't give you the source though as i stopped working at the place where i did that. good luck.
owen

i've since dug a little deeper and discovered that it is indeed quite basic and won't do what we need. i suppose that's a difficult wheel to reinvent anyways. thanks for your replies.

owen

Hello folks,

has anyone used a flare glossary for terminology management? I'm trying to create something that we can use internally as a reference for terms, definitions, allowed synonyms, disallowed synonyms, and possibly links between them. It's not exactly a glossary, not exactly an index, but ...

Hi everyone,

Has anyone else ever wanted to export the link viewer results for a particular snippet / set of snippets? I can use the report option (Flare 7) 'used snippets' but this returns thousands of entries for my project. is there a way to do it on a file by file basis?

thanks
owen

(Flare 7) i'm trying to create snippets from table rows... doesn't work. tried the manual editing way suggested higher up the thread. nope. you can create the snippet but Flare throws a wobbly, because you're _supposed_ to have <tr> nested inside <table>. i think the parser could probably be a ...

i had the same problem with tons of unwanted images being published over and over because I generated many outputs from one project. I got around it by using another feature of flare> included tags always win over excluded tags:

1. create an 'Exclude' tag and apply it to the top level images folder ...

i tried doing a redirect from the default.htm to toc_0.htm which worked just dandy. don't know what else i broke in the process though, although i do know i don't have the search field anymore. i put the meta refresh type of redirect in just before the end of the head section. there is a lot of ...

Hi there,

i've just finished an iPhone help system and everything worked really well without much tweaking. hooray! that's the good news. The bad news is that users need an extra tap to get into it. imo, going straight into the TOC would be much better, from a usability perspective, than going into ...

Just a quick followup to possibly help anyone else out there with the same issue. I took Dave's suggestion and applied conditional tags right on the content subfolders - and also selectively excluded those tags in my two targets - which at a stroke fixed my problem. The publish engine also ...

Thanks Dave,

I've also just found this topic:
http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=10407&p=59291&hilit=publish+multiple+targets+from+the+same+project#p59291
about publishing multiple targets - clear out the build folder, build to distinctly different folders etc - all best ...

Hi everyone,

I'm not sure that this is specifically webhelp mobile related, but it's the first time i'm publishing using FTP because it's webhelp mobile so here goes...

I have one project called 'userguides' which is for printed userguides and online help, for the same software delivered on ...

This may look a bit silly to all you hardcore flare enthusiasts, but i'd just like to thank MC for v6 in general and the mobile help thing in specific. My upgrade process was really easy and within minutes i'd generated my first mobile help which looks cool on the previewer. in case you're wondering ...

Hi Peter,

I just wrestled my way through this exact problem. What you want to do is set a style for images that has max-width set to a sensible value for print (not pixels) and set max-height to auto. This doesn't affect the aspect ratio. I don't think the Flare CSS editor will let you set "auto ...

Thanks for pointing that out - I'll install the updates tomorrow.

Owen

Hi there,

I've just run Flare and been invited to update to 5.0.1. First of all, some praise for Madcap - awesome user experience, as the popup tells me the patch addresses an issue I had, and I was told about it automatically, and could seamlessly download from there. great!

My issue is that the ...

Thanks Andrew, I'll use the Google option in future

Oh, and Lisa, the problem with link style is actually an IE8 problem, not Flare, which is why I couldn't find anything on it.

thanks
Owen

Hi there,

I'm trying to find users in these forums who share my issue with link styles not displaying properly...
... but I've encountered some less than desirable stop list behaviour.

For example, when I try to search the terms 'link' and 'style' together, I get no results because the words are ...

Hi everyone,

please bear with me if this has already been answered - i've tried to find it in the help, forums and styles guide pdf:

I'm trying to use the skin editor to change the following images used in the default skin for the search results table:

arrowup.gif
arrowdown.gif
searchgradient.jpg ...

good advice, thanks, i have been doing just that.

i see these characters when i'm using homesite v5.5  and a hollow rectangle in the same place when i'm using notepad. it doesn't seem to make any difference opening and saving with these tools, but i'm not taking chances on deleting them ...

Hi everybody,

I'm a flare newbie, getting stuck into the styling / skin fun. i've been trying to force my webhelp output to look the way i want it to, and i've discovered some characters like this



at the start of xml files (before the <xml> tag) and also at some other places, like the ...