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Maybe a bookmark?
Doesn't show. Doesn't create an entry in Styles.css. Easy to search. Can contain anything you want, like a reference to the screen ID.

Hard to be sure without seeing an example, but this should be easy in the text editor. (As opposed to the XML editor)

'course, you do say that you're working within a table, so perhaps there's something about the cell formatting. Or maybe you're getting <p> </p> tags within the cell.

Yup. Right here:
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=14805#p116624

I keep a bookmark to that topic. I need to review it every time I switch to a new computer.

Did you mean "Mimic appears to" rather than Captivate appears to"? I think you would need to save the computer voice to a WAV or MP3 file and use that on one of the tracks.

Curious why you're moving from Captivate to Mimic. What do you see as the advantage?

Okay, figured it out. If you're going to go <pre>, go all the way.

My mistake was to leave line breaks as <br /> tags. Those have to go. Replace them all with cr lf (or just cr) characters, as would exist if you copy a code sample from notepad and paste to Flare using the inline option ...

For the first half of that, a quick search tells me that there is a tool to export a Wordpress page (maybe even the whole site) as XML.

As for "easily import into Madcap", you're probably on your own.

My quick access toolbar entries survive restarts. Sounds like a matter for tech-support.

IIRC, it remembers the last folder to which you saved.

There was a recent webinar that might be what you're looking for. "Interactive Wizards in Madcap Flare".
https://www.madcapsoftware.com/resource ... inars.aspx

Days past, I would write code samples using a paragraph style. It worked, but it wasn't a great solution.
Now, I wrap my code samples in <pre> tags to preserve formatting. That works much better for everything. Everything except CHM formatted outputs.

If copying a code sample within <pre> tags from ...

Correct about copying a template HTML file (which I provide and keep up-to-date in terms of format) to a specified folder. Not about the alias. I've done that ahead, setting aside 100 ID values. Those match a set of designated file names in the target folder.
You'll have to have those files when ...

Chris, I hope that you'll post a link when your portal goes online.

What I do is pretty basic. Won't get me invited to speak at MadWorld anytime soon. :roll:

My solution allows a user to create topics that they can open with an F1 press from within our program. That works because our program is used for application development and it's easy to add a line of code ...

What if you add a bookmark in the second heading, and include that in the xref?

I do this, but I don't try to emulate PowerPoint. I give my students a workbook (paper!) and teach directly within our program, not from pictures of our program. Might be different if I had to teach policies and procedures instead of software.

What I've found does work in a classroom, is to keep a ...

Editing my own post. Now that I understand things better, I don't want to leave bad information on the forums.

The problem I was running into was the automatic re-import before compiling. During the first import, Flare gave me a list of files that matched the set condition and I deselected all but ...

TI'm trying to create a sub-project, holding just a few topics from my main project.

I've read the docs and know that there can be a domino effect as linked topics are pulled automatically. So, I carefully removed all connections from the topics I want to link before importing into the sub-project ...

I don't have an answer, but I can contribute a detail. Maybe it will help...

This error happens to me sometimes if I've opened one of the files in the output directory. Sometimes, I have to close whatever program I was using to view that file - simply closing the file isn't enough.
Maybe it isn't ...

Could you run a pre-build batch file to copy the files over? Flare has great support for pre- and post-build events.

I do something similar where some of my content comes from code. I have a PHP script to scrape the latest source code files for what I want (which, thankfully, follows a set pattern ...

I can think of two methods: Do 26 searches ".a", ".b" ...
Search using some editor that supports regular expressions. (hmmm... I wonder if anyone has ever asked for regular expression support in Flare.)

There's a report for that.

I think I'm missing the point. Why can't they all just come here? I'm all in favour of user-groups and having us all share information, but now we've got these forums, and the Linked-In group, and now the Slack group, and who-knows what else? Why can't we just meet in one place?

The Flare editor will supply a line break as <br />. Which is properly closed in XHMTL. Just do a shift-enter.
In the extremely rare case where I want a non-breaking space, I type shift-space, which generates a

I don't know how to make the Flare XML editor generate something that contains invalid ...

Goodbye TopNav and hello SideNav for me. I like this a LOT better.

I did have to spend an hour fiddling with it though. I built a sample project with MadCap's default SideNav as the output and started comparing that to my own. Very quickly discovered that I needed to add a few bits and pieces from ...

Huh? Someone (perhaps the original poster?) deleted the question, leaving only my reply.

Seems like poor discussion group etiquette.