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Thanks for the info.
Given that it seems we cannot trust Madcap to be proactive about security, I've dug through a recent documentation build to compile a list of included third-party js libraries. We're going to monitor these ourselves and will apply our own patches as required while waiting for ...

Yup. There is also a DOMPurify patch that I found out about here - https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=34821

Seems to me like it was only communicated to people who reported it or had a ticket open etc.

Very bad communication from MadCap on this and considering they seemingly want ...

Noticed that the last update to Flare mentioned a security patch.
Digging into that, it's an update to require.js, moving from 2.3.6 to 2.3.7

This one is bad and the vulnerability has been known since June / July of last year. I can't believe that they're only getting around to patching it now and ...

Figured it out: For no good reason at all, Flare was renaming my Images folder (and only the Images folder) to "images". Lowercase.

So I told it to use lowercase across the board and that solved problem #1.

Still unsure about the completion bit. Now it's telling me that 100% is not a passing grade ...

Trying to build xAPI lesson modules and running into two problems. I've been testing the modules on SCORM Cloud as well as my LMS and getting the same results so I'm fairly certain that the problems are on the Flare side.

1) No images. I can see the images in the ZIP file and the paths seem to be ...

I'm trying to build my own grid based on a web tutorial. The starting point, directly from the tutorial, is shown below but Flare invariably throws an error:
CSS: C:\DocTest\Content\WebHome.htm: CSS: Invalid display: grid
Any idea why "grid" is an invalid display option in Flare? (The page is ...

I'm pretty sure the answer is "no", but does anyone know a way to tell the List-Of proxy to stop at the end of the current topic?

What I'm aiming for is essentially a mini-TOC that looks at bookmarks within a topic rather than sub-topics. I can build my own list, item by item, but it would be nice ...

If you're doing a trial of Flare, why not also do a trial of Contributor?

It does indeed sound like a permissions issue. Just guessing blindly, but do you ever run Flare with admin privileges? That would create file access problems.

Looking for some guidance on how to style a proxy. (my general quest here)
Specifically, I want to modify the e-learning proxy so that the progress bar is below the buttons, not beside them.

I don't see how to add extra CSS in the component skin editor, so I'm guessing that I'll need to mess with ...

Figured it out. Total newbie error...

I was used to keeping my project in a folder named "DocTrunk\Trunk" (Don't ask why)
When I bound it to Central I got more specific: "ProductName"
When I did the fresh import, it wanted to place that under my folder as DocTrunk\Trunk\ProductName. So I moved ...

All branches are included in the list of remotes. From the original post, I'm working with a fresh import of the project from Central.
I have GIT installed on my computer and the path is registered with Flare. I can push, pull, and synchronize. The work that I did yesterday was uploaded to Central ...

I've used Flare for a while but am new to Central. Hoping someone can explain the following to me.

We uploaded a project to Central and have since created a few branches.
Last week, I was having trouble with things being slow to respond, so on Madcap's advice I did a fresh import of the project to ...

The following probably isn't the most helpful reply, but I'm wondering what use case there would be for this?
If you're creating a topic fragment, then perhaps it would be better to go straight to a snippet?
If you're planning varying heading levels (perhaps that topic gets an H1 but this one gets ...

Wondering how to achieve a relationship table that's rendered as a dropdown in a SideNav HTML5 target. I suspect that there's more to it than just setting the CSS style. Like maybe adding some JavaScript? Does anyone know how to achieve this?

Update: I found a simple solution. Just pop the ...

Wondering if anyone has any insight into this art? I'm not finding much online that will guide me.

My goal is to ensure that topics are structured so that Bing and whatever other Chatbots are out there trolling can take customer questions and build useful answers from our published documentation ...

Have you tried clearing your browser cache?
Happens to me every time I upload a fresh doc build. The old search chunks are cached and therefore a search won't find the new chunks. Ctrl-F5 and all is well. I can count on a few complaints about the search not working after every update.
The IT team ...

Update: The position has been filled.

For those who use any at all. ;)

I'm planning to make more use of these for cross-links of functions and properties, because it's difficult to update all topic instances when a new one is added to the family.
There are a lot of them, so I'm considering whether to use multiple Relationship Tables ...

Haven't actually tried it, but wouldn't that just be a CSS clip? Copying from the W3 schools example:

Is it possible to write a conditional that says "include NOTHING except for these marked items." ?
Maybe I just need more practice writing advanced conditional statements but... From what I've found, anything not marked with a conditional will be included by default. I have a project where I'd like ...

That would normally be done by the developers. On the documentation side, you can't do much beyond specify which topic is to open.

Hi folks,
At my urging, my employer is beginning the search for someone to help with creating and maintaining our documentation, creating and maintaining our course workbooks & online learning portal, and all such things related to writing and teaching. Naturally, the ideal candidate should have ...

The release notes have a warning about that. ( https://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Flare/General/GEN1067F_-_Flare_2021_r2_Release_Notes.htm?cshid=GEN1067F )

But, I just updated, loaded my project (after making two separate backups), and built my primary Side-Nav target. Can't see a single thing ...

Can anyone suggest a way to keep slideshow arrows away from the text and images in a slide?

I know I can disable the arrows and use the dots instead, but people seem to have trouble with those. Ideally, I'd like to set margins for the slide content so that text stays between the arrows instead of ...