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Hi Paul, I narrowed the cryptic Flare error down to this entry in my stylesheet:

td
{
padding: 2px, 3px, 2px, 3px;
}

Commas. I won't beat myself up too severely, support didn't catch it either. But I will let them know!

Thanks - John

It should be as easy as, e.g. for TOC, AccordionItem > TOC > BackgroundGradientHover. Works for me!

- John

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I'm trying to break out of the confines of table stylesheets (lack of flexibility) and decided to define table elements (table, th, tr, etc.) in the project stylesheet. I thought some folks out there work this way. What I've encountered is, as soon as I add the "table { } " element to the ...

Hi Bob -

You could check with sales support, but I think you'd be fine installing the feedback server software on a standalone server. Just enter the feedback server's URL in each of your Flare Help project's output target (e.g. WebHelp Plus). As long as the standalone server is discoverable, the ...

Bug! Just to wrap things up on this:

Flare (7.0.1)'s review functionality ignores any stylesheet referenced by an import directive. E.g. If, in your Help project's default style sheet, you have the line:

@import url('./MasterStyles.css');

...those styles are not included when the review package ...

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We are looking at using Flare's new topic review features to conduct peer reviews (i.e. the reviewer also has a Flare license).

One thing I am seeing is that the topics do not retain their 'look,' once in the review package. I've messed around trying to see if you can place the associated ...

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We reuse two Help displays in some WebHelp projects. One is a full-blown frame set and another is a pseudo pop-up, which we design using skins. As already mentioned, target="MCWebHelp" works. For maintaining/reusing a second window, we specify target="_MCWebHelpCSH" in the Help calls ...

Yep, I was just hoping it was an option I was overlooking.

I leave you with this: I did a view source on the Flare Help, and they apparently use drop downs, not togglers (though my isolated sampling may not be universal). So, I created a couple of drop downs and did a search and lo and behold, they ...

Right now, the company is on IE8. No other browsers are allowed to be on users' machines. If they were, it definitely would be worth comparing!

Also, I've tried plain old WebHelp and see the same behavior. I did, though, just discover one toggler that DOES automatically expand. Comparing the one ...

Yes, that's what I'm saying, it doesn't work for us. Two different projects, WebHelp Plus, Flare 7, affecting both Search and Quick Search.

If I expand the toggler, the search term is highlighted, so search is working, just not working as we'd like!

Well now, I could start a fresh discussion, but found this perfectly worthy unused one.

Did you, or anyone else, figure out how to get togglers to behave as they do in MadCap's own Help (automatically expand when they contain a search term)? I don't see any relevant options in the WebHelp Plus ...

Yep, that was the plan originally, e.g.

p.Note
{
background-image: url('../Images/NOTE.GIF');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left 0.1em;
text-indent: 21px;
}

Which renders like so in the XML editor:
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/9213/capture3a.png
After spending a ...

ChoccieMuffin, I went with li.note, etc., and the way to control the issue you describe is with list-style-position (inside vs. outside). I also tried a p.note solution but alas, the XML editor overlaps the icon and the note text. Not pretty and the subject of another post and XML editor bug.

Inge ...

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It turns out that the spacing issue is due to list-style-image, which is treated differently in various browsers. So, to get consistent spacing between the custom bullet image and the bullet text, I tried using 'background-image' to control those parameters.

The CSS for this includes a class ...

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We've have adopted a li.note solution for notes, tips, etc., using the code shown below:

li.note
{
list-style-image: url('../Images/NOTE.GIF');
list-style-position: inside;
margin-left: -40px;
}

We output to multiple targets. What we are seeing is that for WebHelp, it appears as http ...

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I just wanted to say, I did create a media type for Word in our master style sheet before exploring other avenues. Where this really fell short, as mentioned in other threads I've come across, is with notes, tips, etc. We use an image for these, and so we went we with li.note, etc ...

Hey, thanks for the replies.

I did a brief evaluation of X-Edit. It poses some issues in this work environment because 1) it requires new learning on the part of business reviewers who are expecting (and possibly demanding) Word copy, and 2) it requires a download/install, but most business users ...

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We are transitioning from RoboHelp. We used to output our WebHelp to Word, and reviewers could use 'track changes' and 'comments' to specify changes. The Word target for Flare 6 is a problem for us now, because Word is not CSS compliant (just too many issues).

I'd like to try PDF because ...

Thanks, I did submit a bug on the traveling CSS comments.

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In an effort to document our various CSS styles, I've been adding comments to the style sheet. What I am seeing when I later open the style sheet in the text editor is that the /* comments */ are relocated to the top of the file, where they make no sense (i.e. they are out of context).

I had ...

Yeah, I see I went down a rat hole after the headerless table stylesheet incident. I did think the stylesheet would default the header option, so I wasn't paying attention to it. Thanks for rescuing the newbie.

- John

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I am fairly new to Flare and just started working with table style sheets, attempting to create standard templates for all to use. Pretty simple - first I created a 2-column table with a header. Then I cloned that stylesheet to create another table stylesheet with header and alternating ...

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As the subject states, I'm hoping someone around here is familiar with this technology (we are using MS CRM 4.0) and has settled on a way to incorporate user assistance (whether it be WebHelp, WebHelp Plus, or HTML Help) with a customized "tenant-level" application. Microsoft seems to suggest ...

(Son, please, step away from mom and dad's computer before you hurt yourself.)

I was able to remedy this issue, thanks to Tech support, who said:

"The issue here is that the text of the "Home" link is taking on the purple "visited text" color. This color is explicitly set in the "visited" pseudo ...

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I am experiencing some issues with the skin editor, as follows.

The Home button text in the default WebHelp Mobile skin is white when displaying a TOC, Index, etc. but is dark/unreadable when displaying a Help topic. There seems to be no way to change this in the Styles editor?

Also, in ...