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Thank you!!

happy to find this answer here, trying to start fresh from previous projects/stylesheets/etc and could not figure this out

Ah, couldn't remember the issue but now I do - thanks!
I knew there was an issue, good to have it confirmed

Oops, simultaneous update from madcap - yes, you can

Have a query out but in case someone here knows - Can I have two versions/instances of Flare installed?

I seem to recall you can now do this, but want to verify to make sure I don't overwrite my production instance (want to switch and start ...

Brilliant, thanks so much!!
Back to this tomorrow, great tips to try. Driving me a bit mad, and your suggestions could be useful for other times I can’t figure out what’s overriding too - tho this is a first (and last, I hope).

Thanks again

If by "available" you mean to see how it's configured in the Flare stylesheet editor, then I believe it should show up in the Advanced view under All Styles > (Complex Selectors).

If you mean how to tell if a style is being applied, then I'll quite often set a hideous background-color or font ...

not working for me - not sure if it needs to be added somewhere in particular, nor how you'd see it as 'available' but doesn't seem to help

update - in preview it looks fine. still unworkable in the editor. still any tips appreciated!!

it looks like Flare's not tracking the rowspans correctly - and unfortunately this is one of the few html things I don't want to do by hand (tables).

again, any tips appreciated, or if others have had this experience. I know Flare's tables are not great, but not being able to track the merged cells ...

I'm making a somewhat complex table to avoid the spreadsheet we're currently using (not that complex, but Flare and tables can be tricky).

On a cell where I merged two rows into one, the text I put in there was bleeding into the following row. Unmerge the cells and I can see it, but merge them ...

I'm still/again having trouble with page layouts not doing what I say.
Coming into someone else's setup, with no time to start over for this release so not sure what all is coming into play.

I kept getting a blank page before the title page, used an old version of their page layout and fixed that ...

nope, good thought but it's only one image
pretty sure it's just that the xml editor is not entirely wysiwyg

This works in Notepad++. The general idea should be the same in most regex tools, although the syntax might vary depending on the tool.

Find: (<a href="http.*?")(>)
Replace: \1 target="_blank"\2

Thanks so much! I just used Notepad++, any complete suggestion I was glad to go that route!!
This ...

I have an image that's 600 pixels wide, that displays fine in snagit and everything else.

In Flare's xml editor, it is small and unreadable. There are no sizing tags, and no tags in the stylesheet for images.
Even clicking and 'open link' in Flare, it looks the same - but different than when the ...

This works in Notepad++. The general idea should be the same in most regex tools, although the syntax might vary depending on the tool.

Thanks! The explanation gives me some tips, if I still try to do it this way. All the tools are different, so that adds challenge, but understanding the ...

I want to find all instances of external links
this works in regex, to find the string:
<a href="http(.*)">

however, I can't find the thing to replace it, just changing it to <a href="http(.*)" target="blank">
(appending the target property between the quote and chevron, or even before it would ...

I have a TOC with many topics for web apps. Each web app is on a single page/topic. The headings inside the topic are represented in the TOC - but they only link to the top of the topic. This is imported content, and the filename markers from Frame are not recognized.

I tried doing auto-generate on ...

Apologies if I posted something similar, now I'm using Analyzer a lot I'm more clear what's happening.

I fix broken links on one or more records in the list, and the screen doesn't update. So I end up doing the same fixes repeatedly, and/or not being sure if my changes have been applied.

Anybody ...

Frame import brings in a new one of each of these for each book imported. The conditions are used across all the books, and possible future imports.

If I move these into a single book, anybody know if that works? Will Flare look for the named condition, or can I repoint it?
We have Analyzer so ...

update - there is no way to get both the GUI ID and the topic name in to Flare

It will have to be manual - a couple of feature requests have been entered to make this easier

Hi, and thanks

I did import that header file - but it was not clear what should be in it. I got it now, but not good news.
I can get the GUI ID list into Flare, but will have to assign the topics manually.
Even tho there's a list with both these pieces of info, the way alias and header files work ...

The header and alias files brought in by the initial Frame import were wrong - it put the topic name in the Identifier column.

Testing bringing in a (subset) header file, which seemed to work. Now have the full thing from developer, but testing is not enlightening so would rather have some better ...

Thanks, I had already figured that out and moved on, posting another shortly

in case it helps anyone else, I believe this had to do with the last windoze update

Specifically, MadCap said to fix the .NET program - but there's no way to access or even see that now, as it seems to be rolled into windoze updates. So after a lot of research, I just uninstalled the last update ...

We have a javascript file with help mappings, that shows the GUI ID : value/topic pair

Is there a way to get that into Flare? I tried importing it as a header but even after changing the file suffix to .h, Flare doesn't even show it in the folder.

Since we already have this, would it be easy for ...

I'm trying to import a file to be our header file. It's actually a .js file but thought it might at least populate some info.

However, even tho I renamed it to .h, Flare does not see it on trying to create from existing.

Any tips on how to get this info into Flare, rather than have to do it ...