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Belay that request for ideas . . . JasonSTI was able to help me figure out how to make an X icon in the upper right corner of the pop-up frame. I'm good-to-go now.

In user help testing, I am getting the feedback that users do not find it intuitive to click a popped-up graphic to close it--they are all looking for an X icon in the upper right corner of the pop-up frame, a Close button, or something like that. They also try clicking outside of the graphic to ...

Thank you, Margaret and Nita!! It really helps to know what happened with that darn file that so many files were linked to. :-) I checked the Advanced folder and it wasn't there, so then I followed Nita's tip and created a file tag set named RoboHelpStatus. I closed and reopened the Flare project ...

I imported a large RoboHelp project into Flare and am slogging through the cleanup to make it a nice top navigation help set. When I run a report for broken links, I get 969 references to this missing file: Project/Advanced/RoboHelpStatus.flfts

What is the RoboHelpStatus.flfts file? Is it ...

Nita,

You are my hero--that was exactly what the problem was! Thank you! I will get the graphic updated to a 300 DPI version for the long term--but for now, I was able to build the PDF and it's ready for hand-off on Monday.

The laptop that I normally use Flare started having problems, so it got turned over to the company's IT guy for reimaging. In the meantime, I was given a loaner laptop to use. I reinstalled MadCap Flare and copied my Flare project's to the loaner laptop, and resumed work. Using the loaner laptop, I ...

You are my hero! That fixed the problem! Mine isn't a low-resolution image, so I don't know why Flare would resize it--but now that my output is back to normal, I'm happy again.

Thanks!
Tracey

I have a page layout (.flpgl) file that I have been using, unchanged, since 7/26/2012. In the upper right corner of the file is a decoration frame with the company's logo image in it--the logo file has been unchanged since 1/31/2013. As late as 3/6/2014 I have been building PDF output with this page ...

Ah! You're right! I had gotten the full search set up and working over a year ago, and then hadn't touched it since. Just recently an outside tester complained that "Search isn't working" and referenced the Search in the toolbar. Which, as you point out is the Quick Search (I'd forgotten about it ...

I am creating with WebHelp output, the Search function is included in the skin, is enabled in the output target, and each topic is included when the full-text search database is generated. The Search field appears in the output, and finds/highlights any search string I specify in the currently ...

Sweeeeet! It worked! Thanks so much!

Tracey

I would like to have tables where I can specify the width of all columns except the right-most column, which I'd like to be a variable-width column based on the the output window width. Right now, I am using the table property Fixed column width for the whole table, which has been fine in the past ...

I just updated to IE8, and suddenly am seeing a difference in my left margins for ordered and unordered lists, between the layout I see in Flare (Layout = Web, Medium = non-print) and what I'm seeing in the WebHelp in the browser. The output in the WebHelp has a much deeper left margin than it shows ...

I've seen in posts dating backing to 2006 that there is no way to customize the DotNet viewer, or to keep the Index pane from appearing in the output by editing the skin. I guess I was hoping that maybe MadCap had fixed this problem in MadCap Flare V8. I am using V8, and in the skin editor for the ...

I have some popups in my WebHelp, and in my style sheet, I have a.Popup style, mc-popup-width set to a rather large value to accomodate my largest popup need. However, I periodically have topic popups that don't need such a large popup window, and I'd like to set up classes for a small popup and a ...

I take it back. Flare was not ignoring me, I was changing the value in the wrong medium.

Once I entered the negative number in the correct medium, I got the appearance I need.

Thanks again for the help!

Tracey

Ok, that fixed the tables-in-the-output problem. :-) Thanks!

But the head scratcher now is, with mc-auto-number-position back to inside-head, I get the following formatting:

1. xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...

Eh, no worries. I really do appreciate the idea, though--it did work nicely in the HTML version.

Thanks for your suggestion!

Tracey

I frequently have cases where users need to repeat a series of steps in a procedure (i.e. Repeat steps 2-6). Naturally, I don't like hard-coding the step numbers in, in case later updates to the steps cause the numbering to change (i.e. now they need to repeat steps 2-7).

From what I found in the ...

Using the System.Title variable suggestion worked great for my WebHelp build, but when I built a PDF version of the content with the same TOC, the topic titles showed the file name instead of the name in the TOC.

Example: In the TOC, the first topic is called Introduction . The name of the file ...

Sometimes when working on topics, I edit the heading text of the topic, and forget to update the corresponding entry in the TOC to match the new heading text for the topic. I hate it when the TOC entries and topic headings don't match--is there a way to have Flare automatically change the TOC entry ...

Aaaah . . . it is a decoration frame. That would explain it! Thanks!

Tracey

There is a branding graphic in the upper right corner the page layout file I am using, which needs to appear on any customer-facing documentation I produce. When I use this page layout file to produce PDF files, the graphic appears as expected. However, when I try produce build a Word output file ...

When I am in the Target Editor, on the Conditional Text tab, near the bottom of the page, I can see the expression I am building by checking Include for certain conditions (Condition1 OR Condition2 OR Condition3).

Is there any way to construct an conditional expression using a logical AND instead ...

I have a Flare project with a large number of topics, and from these topics I routinely generate PDF files for a number of different documents. I am now trying to generate WebHelp output instead of a PDF for one of the documents, and am using the same TOC file for the WebHelp target as identified ...