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Is there a way in Flare to quickly identify those topics that are not in the TOC? In RoboHelp, you can re-sort the list of topics under the "TOC" heading to easily identify the topics you've missed. I haven't been able to find the equivalent in Flare yet.

Thanks.
Carl Lum

That's what I was looking for! Works like a charm.

Thanks, Ryan.

Carl

I just noticed that Flare puts a border around all images that have hyperlinks--how can I avoid this? For example, I have an icon that when clicked, displays an external topic. But Flare insists on encircling my icon with a rather ugly blue (or purple) border in the compiled result. I've tried using...

Yes, I eventually rebooted the PC and Capture worked normally again. But now the problem has returned, and rebooting doesn't work. Very annoying. I'll try filing a bug report.

Nope--I have not mapped that hotkey to anything else, though Firefox treats it as a refresh. The really strange thing is that region capture was working fine yesterday...

For some reason, the Region Capture feature in my Capture 3 is no longer working. When I press the Ctrl-Shift-R hotkey, I see the crosshair and the magnifier, but I cannot select the area to capture. Instead, the mouse pointer continues to behave normally and I can click elements on my desktop, all ...

The Quick Search in WebHelp appears to match only whole words. Is it possible to make partial matches? For example, searching for "report" on a topic does not locate "reports". The standard wildcard characters are not recognized. I notice that using the browser's built-in Find fe...

This has been driving me crazy...in the Skin editor, I can use the Styles > Frame setting to set the font and colour for the Index and TOC tabs in the WebHelp. But there appears to be no corresponding setting to change the Glossary text--it comes out in Arial 12pt Blue in the WebHelp--not what I wan...

Is it possible for Flare to create a type of "web help" that will work on browsers with JavaScript disabled? I realize that WebHelp itself will not work if JavaScript is not enabled. Or is the only alternative to use another help format (CHM, Dotnet Help, etc.)? This was just a suggestion ...

Andrew wrote:Do the broken links also come up when you compile?

No, the broken links do not come up during compilation. This is probably because there are no actual broken links in those topics. But something keeps tripping up the analysis for whatever reason.

If you have drop-down tags then I'm guessing you have paragraph tags inside the table rows. Did you set orphan/widow values for the print version of those paragraph styles? The paragraph style that I use within the cells--and within the drop-down tags--show "(default)" for all the "B...

I have also encountered the same problem: I have some long tables and they break very oddly in Flare, even though I haven't made any changes to the TR and TD styles. This is what I've noticed: - Tables in legacy topics originally created by RoboHelp actually behave as expected: the table rows break ...

I just discovered that search does work when you switch to Grid View. So the workaround is to go to Grid View first, search, then switch back to Tree View to see the position of the item in the TOC. It's a bit clumsy but at least it works. I just filed an enhancement request to see if they can get i...

Is there a way to search a TOC in Flare? I tried doing a Find and Replace with the Primary TOC open, and it doesn't work.

Thanks.
Carl

I'm generating to Word and I am not using a master page. But this is interesting...I changed the output type to PDF and now it works! The headers are outdented as I had intended. So it would appear the problem lies in Word 2007. Also interesting is how Flare generated a slew of errors when generatin...

Thanks for the tips, Lisa. I actually spent a couple of days reading all the helps topics on Page Layouts and the "Printed Output Guide". I wanted a good grip on this feature before I tried anything. As my main project is huge (400+ pages), I created a second testing TOC that included two ...

I'm just starting to play around with the new Page Layout feature and something is really puzzling me. The layout I'm trying to achieve is this: - 8.5 x 11 page - margins: 1 inch all around, except 1.25 from top - body frame starts 1.5 inch from the left margin (i.e., body text is 2.5" from lef...

Thanks!

(Note to MadCap: Might be useful to add this to the online help...)

Carl

When editing a skin in Flare, the "WebHelp Toolbar" category allows you to specify which buttons will appear. One of the button is "Home". By default, this opens up the startup topic that I've designated. However, the help for this button says that the Home button can open a &quo...

After deleting the Analyzer folder and rescanning, the "topics not in the TOC" report is mostly accurate, but it still misidentifies topics that are in the TOC. The other reports--broken links and topics not in the index, are still way off.

Carl

To me, one of the more exciting new features in Flare 4 is the Project Analyzer. It was sorely needed. But when I run it, the results are all wrong! It lists topics that it claims are not in the TOC, yet I've verified that they are indeed in the target TOC. It also fingers topics with broken links, ...

When I run the WebHelp generated by Flare 3.1 in Firefox 3, the "Search" tab does not load. It just hangs on "Loading..." but the topic is displayed, hyperlinks work, and I can switch to the Index or TOC tabs with no problems. I believe Firefox 3 was an issue with Flare when it f...

When I type in Flare, there are always two boxes hovering above my cursor--a white one with the letter "i" and an orange box with "(text)" in it. Clicking these buttons produces a context menu displaying options that I do not yet understand. My question: how do I prevent these bo...

DocuWil: That's exactly what I needed--thanks! I had totally forgotten about setting a table heading row. I recall stumbling across that when I first started using Flare and struggling with the tables. dwag: Thanks for the tip, but I think I already tried this and it didn't work for me. Flare's adhe...

This may be a simple question, but I can't seem to get it to work in Flare: how do I apply background shading to a table cell? When we migrated to Flare, we imported our old RoboHelp projects. Our tables are simple: plain body cells, with the table heading row having a 50% grey pattern. The RH table...