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are you kidding me? it disregards what I put in the TOC??

this is a pain, if true. I've followed up on the case I opened but jeez...
I have several books, so several TOCs. this will be really painful for reuse, having multiple condition tags and having to make it all work.

When I search on my help file, I get results that are NOT in that TOC. There are topics linked to my book/TOC but they're not in there. I don't see where this is coming from.

They don't appear in the TOC navigation, but in search results. There are several of them.

Flare shows they're linked to ...

Hi all
Does anyone know of any usability studies or other info to point someone to re thumbnails & hover being good practice?
I've got the question about it and provided an answer but any backup could be quite useful.

Thanks for any help!

they are classes of h1 and h2

I went into the print/non-print mediums 'cos I messed around with them, so wanted to change everything back - default doesn't reapply those settings, which makes sense as you may want different settings for print.

however, after doing it many many times, it finally ...

I have two subhead styles based on heading styles both the same color, h1sub=12pt bold and h2sub=11pt bold italic

I set the styles using Medium: (default) AND then went into both non-print and print medium and matched it.

However, the settings are not being used/retained. There is no italic, the ...

ah, well, that sounds like fun, but of course there are additional issues - for some reason, my mac can't connect to the remote network in browse mode, so transferring files is painful. And with the windoze vm on the mac, I can't even get the vpn access to work.

I get it, no easy way, and it's not ...

hmm, not sure about this zip option - I can try it but basically I need to make sure I copy it. And it's not usually a problem, I just forgot to copy after several days away.

The zip option is still going to use regular windoze file info, so if I modified a file on the 21st, copied it at work on ...

o cool! too much happening at once, looked around but didn't see that, thanks so much.

so... if, for instance, I'm not sure if I copied all the files I changed at work and I want to quickly see what's changed... :) in other words, to check for user error.

still not quite sure about the dates ...

thought it shows the date I copied it, but maybe it is registering which files have changed, since they aren't all the same date. so files changed on the 21st at home will have dates of the 22nd when I copy the project to work pc.

It only shows topics tho, not images, and seems like I can get the ...

I have to say, Andrew, I have no idea what you're saying here.

xref target? you mean the topic the xref points to? it is included, so if that's what you mean it's not the problem.

However, I changed the xref for print output so that it adds on page {#} and it is NOT updating!! Have I managed to ...

Hi there

Is there any way to see the 'last modified' date for a file, either topic or image?

I'm copying the whole project onto a zip drive and carrying between work and home, so the dates are modified all the time but no way to see what files were actually changed.

This would be very useful, I'm ...

Hi there

Thanks for the webinar tip, guess I may have to do more of these but would love to be a bit more up and running by now.

There are quite a few things that just don't work, and I really don't have time to try all the options. Others have said the help is quite good, but I'm finding it ...

hi, yup that's exactly what I did

I haven't found anything that works - can't remember all the problems, but neither paragraphs nor any type of list was working properly either. The text can be set to wrap top, bottom, or middle, all set the same, and each one works differently.

again, any tips ...

Ok, here's a specific problem that makes no sense

I put 3 images into a table because I wanted text to the right of them and could NOT get consistency - the first one, text was flush with the bottom of the image, the next one is ALWAYS flush with the top, etc. Why would this happen?

BUT, in the ...

I'm having trouble getting the images to do what I want, or in fact anything that would be useful.

1. The thumbnails have a bug, which is evident in Flare's own help and which I think I discovered, tho it seems quite obvious. That is, if an image is wider than whatever width you have your browser ...

hmm, ok interesting to think of leaving everything h1 in online output. However, there are loads of things that 'just work' in the 'other tool' that are quite painful and not exactly right in Flare.

Also, I was talking about using a topic in two _different_ books/targets, not two places in the same ...

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No, I have a condition and a style - I'm wondering if the style is what's making it publish, but the condition should override it, else conditions are not very useful.

thx

This is turning out to be more of a problem - setting these for each topic is not something I'd expect to be spending time on. And it doesn't work the way I'd expect in Word output either, but since I have to change them anyway guess that doesn't matter so much.

However, what about the scenario ...

I am now using conditional text for my comments, plus a character style to easily see it in the editor.

However, they STILL APPEAR in the output!!
Does this need to be set anywhere besides the Target? I've set this condition to Exclude, is there something else I need to do? Others seem to have ...

So, if I got this right, it turns out the header style in the (web) output ignores the structural level. Which means you have to go in and manually make all level 2 topics Header 2. painful.

In addition, any time you move stuff around you have to check/fix this.

That's what I've been told, that ...

aha! thanks

Glad to know there is rhyme and reason to this one, then I can figure out how I want to approach it. Not the case with all the stuff I've run across, tho

Thanks for this, much appreciated, and that does make sense.

hmm, again counterintuitive - it appears if I link to a topic but don't include it in the TOC, it's still included in the output. Doesn't show up in the TOC but opens if I click a hyperlink to it.

Not my favorite, wonder why it's done this way - and, even more important, how you got the results you ...

yikes, just knowing they're not supposed to publish tells me that many things in flare are happening for me that should not be!

It's just regular html output so don't know why this would be but yes, completely reproducable. Unfortunately, don't have the time right now to do bug report.

thx all

ok, confused...

I finally used annotations as my conditions were still publishing, even tho I'd set them to be excluded.

BUT, they publish to the output, which was my original question/intent to address.

guess I'll go back to trying conditions, but contrary to what I'd thought from these posts ...

Thanks, but as my question clearly (I thought) states, I want to know what is happening, and why, not how to set a max width and height, which of course is a lot more obvious.
It's set to default. also tried automatic, which was worse.

I'd rather know how/why the image is getting cut off than have ...