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yeah - that works pretty nicely. obv just got to watch out for them accepting the auto suggestion and inserting something like this in the text all over the place:


4. Then when you *** WARNING DON'T USE THE WORD YOU *** click the button it will cause the dialog to be displayed...


:D
but; it ...

Hi Nita

As mentioned; Im not ruling it outright; but the following suggests how I might word your examples. Note that same outcome is achieved, and word count is less (saves £'s across a large document being translated);

"Set the options to suit your preferences" --> Configure as required.

or ...

I agree with RamonS-
here; I have found a few things;
1. The use of you and your leads to longer sentences than needed. Since we are then translating the documents into multipel languages the costs go up significantly.

2. I have also seen it promote a more "chatty" writing style which doesn't fit ...

it's an in-house style rather than personal preference in this case.
just wondered if there was any way to help aid / enforce writing styles...

hello,
what is the best way at getting technical authors to stop using "you" and "your" in the documentation?
I can't see anyway to "remove" the words from the standard dictionary (thus being highlighted as an error) and using an auto suggestion doesnt really enforce it.

Any suggestions?

cheers ...

ok; so after more digging ; the import will always fail if some of the files show up in RED. ie the destination is newer.
Potentially a few times I have updated a linked file to just quickly try something out knowing (?!) that it would be overwritten on an import. Even if i select the item to ...

i think thats the problem... when this happens a dialog box appears saying "are you sure" (paraphrasing), and you say yes. It goes away and thinks about things but then nothing gets updated...
or so it seems.

then run the import again and you get the same files being reported as "missing" or newer ...

a few failure modes;

it sometimes does not pick up new files from the master. eg new .htm topics (even though *.htm;*.html is selected in import options).
and
it sometimes does not pick up files that have changed

I *THINK* this happens when the dialog shows some files as being "source is newer" or ...

Hello
we have a "master" project in which we have most of our inhouse styles/graphcis/skins etc defined.
we then have a number of projects which essentially contain the product specific topic but import all of the styles etc from the master project.

I have recently noticed that the "Reimport ...

i'm pretty sure I have set all BGColors to #000000 and also pretty sure there isnt an image overriding it...
the skin for mobile is slightly different to skin for non-mobile; but the Navigation Element I have set up is set to BacggroundColour=black.

I did find that I had to override the body ...

Hi,
Our help is lo-lite - ie black background with white / light grey text. Ive tweaked the skin and all looks fine; except around the main intro page where the bottom section is solid white.

My css already has:


@media mobile
{
body
{
background-color: #000000;
}
}


and I am correctly ...

we currently do this:

img
{
max-width: 850px;
}
...
@media print
{
img
{
max-width: 16.00cm;
}


is there any way to do a similar thing for MOBILE img elements so that they have a max width of say 200px so they fit reasonably on a mobile device screen?

eg

@media mobile
{
img
{
etc ...

this may help some people;
if flare v7 it turns out the div class has changed slightly;

I needed to do this to get it to work (and stay back compatible):

MadCap|miniTocProxy,
MadCap|miniTocProxy_0
{
mc-auto-number-format: 'Contents of this section:';
mc-auto-number-class: miniTocBoxTitle ...

agreed; ive just tried v7 and it looks like we "get further" than in v6 but still not working.
would love to see this fixed....

bump... i'd still very much like to see this issue addressed. We are having to manually check files in and out of vault and this has led to the obvious problems where stuff hasnt been checked in, or in some cases edited by multiple people without source control leading to loss of data....

please re ...

perfect. many thanks.
its often hard to find these things!

..the background colour is correctly set as a light grey. its the foreground font colour that i want to change.

yes, correct. The "title" only is displayed if the minitoc has any links.

exactly what i needed. good job!

On the Favourite accordian it displays test as follows:

"Favourite Searches"
" - There are no favourite searches saved"
"Favourite Topics"

(See attached screenshot). I have a lo-lite theme, and the above text is being displayed in white, but, I need to change it to a darker colour.
I cant find ...

many thanks; the css in the referenced link above did the trick.

thanks for all your help. much appreciated.
peteB

this sounds like what I need. I however can't find "Dave's instructions".
Can you inform how I add this text into the master page, or , point me to daves forum entry?

..but this means that I need to "manually" set the class for each topic which have related links.
The links are "automatically" generated for each topic for me and obviously none are generated if they dont exist. I dont want to have to manually maintain when the heading text is displayed (or not ...

Hello
I have MiniToc working for my online help and looks something like:

body text blah blah

Link1
Link2
Link3

Id like it to looks like this:
body text blah blah

You may be also interested in the following pages:
Link1
Link2
Link3

It is of course easy to add that text "You may be ...

thanks all, and sorry for posting in the wrong forum. I intended to put it in the right place!
Ive submitted a feature request (for this and several other items)

cheers
peteB

I would like a variable similar to <year> but one that is the 'build' date. Our automated build system will compile the help weekly and it would be nice for it to automatically include the date in the document. Currently we have a custom build step that creates a custom variable file for each weekly ...