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We have the most basic of basic help systems right now, and we would like to in future implement some CSH. I know that we can link individual buttons in the software to particular pages (topics) in the help. Is it possible to do a similar thing with snippets (or micro-content)? I'm imagining a syste...

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I have a similar situation where I want to exclude everything tagged OEM.B, include everything tagged OEM.A (even if also tagged OEM.B), and exclude everything tagged ContentState.Draft (even if tagged with the others). Here's what I came up with: (OEM.A and OEM.B) or not OEM.B and not ContentState....

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Probably an obvious question, but it has to be asked - neither of you have any styling on the Madcap variable or Madcap snippettext selectors respectively?

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A few notes that might help you with your playing around: - The "position:absolute" style does place it in a particular position on the page itself (in this case, the top left as defined earlier in the style) rather than within its containing element. position:relative does the latter, but...

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Although now that I think of it, the best way of making sure you have access to all of your styles at all times would be to define all of the styles in your master stylesheet. The styles that aren't being used by that output can be left 'blank', so they will inherit all values from the default. That...

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That stylesheet is presumably using the default xref style (all of the fields in the stylesheet editor are greyed out, which indicates that they are being inherited from the defaults). It won't show up in the stylesheet in the same way that you do not need to have the defaults for the <p> tag in the...

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But there is the rub - how do you add an <em> withour resorting to the text editor? It's not in the toolbar and not in the style window It may appear if you have something defined for it in the stylesheet. Open up the stylesheet in a text editor and add an empty style (em { }) or make a minor chang...

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The stylesheet that you use in the editor is based on the primary project target. Simply navigate to the targets folder, right click on a target and select 'make primary' to set that stylesheet for editing.

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If there is a condition on the body it should show up in the text editor for that topic. Open the topic in the text editor and delete the MadCap:conditions phrase from the <body> tag. If that phrase isn't there, it may be a style class that is excluded from that output, so delete that and check the ...

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I'm not sure whether this is your problem, but one important thing to know that has caused me a lot of grief: Flare's internal Git integration will only work properly if the Flare project is the only thing stored in the repository. I've had similar issues in the past when we tried to store all of ou...

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Unfortunately if you include it in the sidebar you will also include in the TOC. Both of those are looking at the same style property (mc-heading-level), so you can exclude it from one but it will also exclude it from the other (bane of my life). A way that might be less obnoxious: create a style li...

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As far as I'm aware, those bookmarks are created the same way as the print table of contents. Each bookmark refers to a particular heading within your document, and the level is equivalent to the mc-heading-level attribute of that heading. So you could include the title page in the bookmarks pane by...

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Yes - as I did mention in my original post, that is fine when you want to use the default variable definition in your target. But I have added alternative definitions to my variables, and I would like the target to reference those rather than the default definition. Instead, when I select those alte...

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I've run into a similar issue when building the same manuals for four different companies, each of whom want their own special layouts (*sighs deeply*). However, there is a way around it. You need to have one page layout per output type, which you can assign to the target for that output. When you a...

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My documentation Flare projects include a large (and ever growing) number of variables which are stored in a Global project and shared via import files. Each variable has multiple definitions (mostly product names/codes which are different for the different companies we write for). The targets (also...

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