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I think it's a problem that we have two competing Flare communities (which Slack has already won), but neither really ticks all the boxes for what you want in a community self-support site. I think Slack would have been a great choice, if only you could search and refer to previous answers to questi...

Yeah, flex is a really good and easy way to display content - Flare uses it in its skins. This is a handy visual guide to flex: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ Usually you'd use set flex CSS properties in on both the container ( display:flex ), and also on the stuff inside th...

They're hidden after 90 days because it's not a paid subscription It says $7.25 per person per month - and there's 2000 members! But yeah, the lack of any history on Slack is massively irritating. It's got a pretty interface, but is a step backwards as you can't build a body of knowledge that people...

The links are probably not clickable because the link for the logo is being displayed in front of them.

You can move the links in front by setting the z-index in your CSS (assuming links are in #header-links, as in the example):

You are getting an empty xref because there is no text in the paragraph that contains the bookmark.
If you want to use a xref, then you need to have some text in that paragraph.

If you don't want text in that paragraph, then use a normal hyperlink instead of a xref.

A condition tag set on a topic means you can set the target conditions to exclude that topic from the output altogether. If the topic is excluded, then it wouldn't be included in any output TOC either (so you don't need to use a condition to exclude the TOC item too). A condition tag set on TOC item...

I created the class "GenTOCTable3" as a child of h3. The article says to add the GenTOCTable3 class to the table tag, not your h3 tag (or any heading tag). So that's why your h3 is disappearing. So you'd have this in your stylesheet: table.GenTOCTable3 { display: none; } Note that the ste...

Interesting, I'd never heard of target-name in CSS - it looks like it's just a proposal. Whilst <base> should work, it looks like you need to specify the href as well as the target . This works for me: <base href="https://madcapsoftware.com/" target="_blank" /> You'd have to add ...

Sorry, but this doesn't sound right for a number of reasons. This can be achieved by doing modification inside master page or stylesheet Not sure how it can be "master page or stylesheet". They're quite different things, and I can't see how making a change to either is going to change the ...

This can be achieved by modifying the File List configuration which can be accessed from within; Target Editor > Advanced > Output File list Configuration > Edit Configuration You will get the File list configuration editor wherein you will be able to add custom column. Where exactly is this in Fla...

Yes, we switched a very long time ago. We have the help installed in different ways - installed in a local server, and installed to the local file system. One product already has server and client components, so the server component app installs the help to the local server, and when you use help in...

Psider is correct. By default, it will use overflow: visible which means the background (not text) will not be clipped to the size of the box. Using overflow: hidden or overflow: auto will fix it. I use auto, just in case the div contains content that don't fit inside it, as this will display scroll...

Replied to in the Slack group. For anyone else: Your problem is that the Side Nav menu does not load the full menu initially - MadCap's script only loads the items as you open the menu and they become visible. If you inspect the topic's HTML using the browser dev tools (F12), you'll see the child me...

What do you actually want to do? Just it's not that clear from the original post either. If you want to choose how many menu levels to display, then open the skin editor and set the Top Menu Levels to Show (Depth) on the Setup tab. As you mentioned, the setting on the Styles for Menu > Top Navigatio...

You can't add levels in the skin editor, so you have to do this yourself using CSS that customises the output . In my case, I needed to set the indentation for menu items on levels 5-7. So in the example below, this selects the side navigation container (ul.sidenav ...), selects five levels deep in ...

Conditional statements can only be used to include/exclude content that has been marked with a condition. Content that's not marked with a condition tag isn't being 'included' as such (nor can it be excluded) - as it's not marked with a condition, it's left alone and is untouched by the build process.

Props files will be created if you edit an image in MadCap Capture - do you use that? The props file contains the source that's used to create the image - the image data, layers, captions, etc. So don't delete the props file, as you'll lose the image source and won't be able to edit the image in Cap...

Flare doesn't have tabs built-in, so you're presumably using some custom javascript to display content in the tabs. If it worked before you overhauled your project, then yes it sounds like you've changed something that has stopped the javascript from working - maybe something like a class name or an...

The menu just displays what's in your TOC, so if you don't include topics in the TOC (or exclude them using conditions), then they won't appear in the menu. The topics will still be included in the output, provided the target setting Content to include isn't set to only include content linked from t...

If you're using a project import (global project linking), then the parent project would have to import all the files required to build the topics from each target, not just the TOC file. So I presume you're thinking of using Auto-include linked files to get these files? This would get the topic htm...

Sounds like you're initialising Foundation before Foundation has been loaded. Note that if you're using a HTML5 target and skin, then the Flare output will already include a portion of Foundation (6.2.3). That means you don't need to add the Foundation script or initialise Foundation yourself. Howev...

There's nothing built in to Flare that will do that, so you'd have to add it yourself. Now, say you added a script that could filter the menu (there are loads of examples of how to filter HTML), the next problem is that it might not work very well with the Side Nav menu. The whole Side Nav menu is n...

You can use CSS to hide the button:

I don't use Central, but to display content from separate projects in the same topic, then you'd have to import the content so that it's all in your current project. First, in each child project, you'd need to put the shared content into snippets. Then in your parent project, you would use a project...

I'm using TFS rather than Azure DevOps, but you'll get the same problems with project imports (GPL) whatever source control you use. Most of the problems we had were down to two reasons: (1) When you set up a project import (GPL) in Flare, you can only set it up to import files from somewhere in the...