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With regards to height, 100% means it fills 100% of the tag its inside , so it depends on the size of the parent tag. For example, for a p tag in your body to use 100% of the visible height, you'd need all the parent tags to be 100% too, like html and body .
Thanks Dave:

The essence of my ...

Hi Riley

There is a setting called Adaptive height on the General tab of the settings. If it is turned on, the slideshow height will shrink/expand to fit the content of each slide. When turned off, all slides are set to the height of the slide with the tallest content.

Thanks for the idea ...

Do you need to set the height explicitly?

I'm guessing 100% would be the default value, so it might not be needed.
Thanks for the idea. But it seems to be true only for HTML . Even BODY doesn't want to grow vertically to fill the page regardless of whether or not I specify height .

I'm now ...

A small update.

On another forum someone suggested replacing all the min-height: 100%; instances with height: 100%; .

So I tried that and for a moment I thought I'd found the solution: The slideshow and slide vertically filled the Flare XML Editor's window.

But when I viewed the slide show in ...

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For Flare 10.02 slideshows.

I've gone 'round and 'round in circles trying to figure out the right combination of CSS that will force MadCap|slideshow and MadCap|slide to completly fill the vertical space of a browser's HTML and BODY elements.

Here's a screenshot of what I've managed to do ...

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For Flare 10.02, Windows 7 64-bit (although I don't believe this is a release-specific issue).

QUESTION:
Should the CSS attribute display: inline-block; work in PDF?

THE PROBLEM:
I have a snippet that contains contact information. I have wrapped that information in a DIV that has a ...

Anything that requires processing more than one page won't work properly in the preview.
As I said earlier, now that I've heard that it makes perfect sense.

But I wonder if it wouldn't be useful to provide a small Preview popup for those features that says something like "you're generated list ...

Dave Lee wrote: I'm fairly sure that it's never calculated the entries for help controls (like related topics) or proxies (like miniTOCs).

Now that you say it, it makes sense. I guess I just expected something to happen in Preview. But going forward I'll know better.

Cheers & thanks,
Riley

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For Flare 10.02, HTML5 Target

Before I file a bug, I wanted to see if anyone else has seen the following behavior, and if so can suggest a remedy for it.


IF I insert a Related Topics Control into a topic, AND use the HTML5 Preview to view the topic, THEN the Related Topics Control ...

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By the by, I (the original poster) just checked this behavior in Flare 10.2 and the popups now appear over their thumbnails. So evidently this has been "magically" addressed in some way(?) Or so it appears…

Cheers & hope this helps,
Riley
SFO

Set the icons in Navigation Panel > TOC > Icons , which sets the default icons.

You can use Toc Entry > Icons when you want to use different icons for specific TOC items, which you set using a class.

Whilst it is actually in the help, it's poorly organised in the skin.
http://webhelp ...

For Flare 10.02, HTML5 Target.

I have a skin that I've been able to customize as I want EXCEPT for the TOC book icons.

Per the attached PNG screenshot, I've put some green icons in the project's Images folder and used the HTML5 Skin Editor to specify them ...

With alias files, you then have all these lovely headers to play with too, and can only view all, or one, in the "Alias file" editor.
Having only recently acquired my initial tentative grasp on the idiosyncrasies of the Alias Editor, my thought (quite possibly an under informed one) is that if I'm ...

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Paul:

Thanks to all of you I think I've finally gotten the Alias Editor under control. Or at least under more control than was the case.

I used Everything Search to locate any and all header files the Alias Editor thought existed. I then shredded all of them — simply deleting them wasn't ...

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First, thank you all for your help. Thanks especially for clarifying and affirming what for me had to this point been only vague suspicions. (I guess I won't need to check myself in to a mental health facility after all.)

That is that the so-called Alias Editor's operation is apparently not ...

Wasn't in the XML. Searched my hard drive and found some instances, deleted them.

I'm giving up on this for today. The Alias Editor is SOOO counter-intuitive to me. Tomorrow, maybe...

Cheers & thanks,
Riley

Thanks all.

I only have ONE alias file.

I have at different times tried to export header files as .h or .properties .

This Alias Editor is SO counterintuitive -- why does exporting a header file add something to an Alias Editor? Why does the Alias Editor feel it's "helping" me by grabbing stuff ...

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For Flare 10.1.

Three times I have manually set up an Alias file in a project. The next time I open the Alias file Flare has duplicated the entries in the file. If I try to remove one of the entries, Flare retains one of the duplicated entries but removes the topic information I so ...

Nita:

The very moment I read your once-sentence question I had my Homer Simpson "Doh!" moment.

That was of course it. I'd looked "everywhere" but didn't think of that. That's ironic because the ability to specify per-target variable definitions is one of my favorites.

Blush…

Cheers & thanks ...

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For Flare 10.1, Windows 7 64-bit completely updated.

Why would Flare generate a variable one way in print ( ProductName+ ) and another way in WebHelp ( ProductNamePlus )?

I have one variable, and only variable, that defines the short version of a product name as LabLink ...

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For what it's worth, after some amount of research and spelunking in skinfile XML, I finally just ended up instantiating a new blue WebHelp skin, then identifying and applying all the modifications that were in the green skin. Sigh...

Cheers & thanks 'gain,
Riley
SFO

After successfully generating the topics, I got an entry for each topic. I am a bit confused because, in many cases, I will need to point to specific sections within each topic, rather than the whole topic. How do I generate a more granular list?

In the Alias editor, after selecting a topic file ...

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The report idea is sure as Heck a much better start on the problem.

I gen'ed the out-of-the-box version of the report and have something much more helpful than anything I had.

Excellent idea!

Cheers & thanks 'gain for that,
Riley
SFO

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Does that help?

I will try that and let ya' know. Thanks again! You've been a source of much insight today.

Cheers & thanks 'gain,
Riley
SFO

I am finding this CSH thing with Flare unnecessarily convoluted. I really hope that it is just me and that I can laugh, at my lack of knowledge, within the next two weeks.
For Web applications I'm in the same boat. I'm normally able to puzzle through technical issues like this but so far haven't ...