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Locking files is only in relation to source control. It prevents other users from editing a file you are working in. And not all source control providers have the feature. For example, you can't lock a file if you use GIT, because the way GIT works locking a file doesn't make sense. So, no locking f...

We have previous and next buttons at the bottom of our topics. They look like this: https://content.screencast.com/users/paul.pehrson/folders/Shared/media/5178ad47-6b2d-45c8-83b0-578a829befb6/05.24.2019-12.30.png We use a topic tool bar proxy at the bottom of the master page, with these settings: ht...

First of all, we don't manage our GIT from withing Flare. We use the setting to tell Flare to not recognize the GIT binding, and we do all our source control using a third party tool. (We use SmartGIT, but that is a paid solution. There are other free solutions out there as well.) Here is how my GIT...

Can you post a screen shot so I can see exactly what element you're wanting centered?

I didn't realize this was true, but I checked in 2019, and you're right. Framemaker is not listed as an output type when you create a new target in Flare 2019:

Google doesn't require a sitemap for it to work, but it finds your site either by you telling Google to index your site, or by discovering your site through incoming links. This is, however, not an immediate process. Google says it can take several days or even weeks for your site to get indexed: ht...

If you can, post the code you have and what you're trying to accomplish. Maybe somebody can give you the help you need, and you will learn something in the process! That is exactly how I learned Flare.

Yeah. They didn't provide a way to implement it in part because it will depend on how you develop your micro content, and how you're developing your product. The documentation on how to do this is definitely lacking, but it is possible to do---we're doing it in one of our products. But you're right,...

Make sure you submit these directly to MadCap so they can be seen by the development team. (This is a peer-to-peer forum. MadCap may or may not see what you post here.)

I know micro content is a feature they plan to continue developing, so I'm sure your suggestions would be welcome.

When you generate your output, the phrase that you use becomes the file name of the resulting micro content file in the output. I believe that if you have punctuation in your micro content source file it is stripped out of the file name in the resulting output. So what Flare basically tried to do wa...

The <frameset> element is deprecated in HTML5 (source), and since Flare's most recent outputs are all based on HTML5, a frameset isn't going to work.

Can you provide more context of what you are tying to accomplish? Are you trying to insert a frameset? or an iframe? or just a frame-like DIV setup? The more detail you can provide, the better help we can give.

I don't use Lingo myself, so I can't provide an answer to this question. It is something I would definitely take up with MadCap support.

Flare does not provide this functionality natively, but I you could use a jQuery plugin to get the effect you want, I believe.

For example, this jQuery plugin looks like it might work:

https://www.jqueryscript.net/other/High ... apoid.html

I tried to run the word count report in Flare's reports tool, and it froze Flare. I let it run over lunch and when I got back, it was still stuck. So I had to kill the Flare process. Sorry. I don't have much help for you here. (But I tried!)

My guess would be that you would put conditions on the topics/folders that you want (or don't want) translated. Then when you send your project for translation, you could do an Export Project, where you can choose to include or exclude specific conditions. That way the resulting project that you sen...

Also, if you are using Flare 2019's micro content feature, you can create multiple phrases that will return the same micro content file. So that is another thought.

Daniel Ferguson just showed me a way to remove <p> tags on a table-by table basis: 1. In the structure bar, click the table element to select the entire table. 2. In the Table tab (on the Ribbon), click Cell Content Style. 3. In the pop-up window, select "None." The <p> tags are removed, a...

Changing the CSS won't affect what elements are in your source topics. It will just affect how they are styled. If you can, I'd revert the changes you made to your CSS. If you removed every instance of <p> style that you could find, you will have affected the style of all paragraphs in all situation...

So how do you currently handle xrefs to missing topics in this project, or are they just broken? They are just broken. Which is lame. But we do have a print condition of text after the topic where we say what guide to look in for that topic. So in online output it would say "For more informati...

I have found that if you are using columns in your DIVs, it's almost always easier to edit your content in the code view, because Flare's WYSIWYG editor doesn't display them well and makes them hard to edit. We use DIV tags for all our call outs. We use DIVS on our home page. Here is what it looks l...

Happy to help! Hope it helps you get to where you want to be.

The closest I think I've got for you is adding one tab, not two. You would add the Browse Sequence tab to the skin. Then you would change the custom text of the tab to something else like Resources. Then you could use browse sequences in your project to link to the additional content. Not ideal, I k...

Providing an example is hard because everybody style requirements are so different. However, one thing I've found is that if I create a test TOC with only a few nested topics, and I create a new test target, I can build my test target much faster. It makes "round-tripping" ---between tweak...

I personally had to give up worrying about it in my PDF outputs. It simply wouldn't work like I thought it should. So I quit caring. I know this is not a helpful response. Sorry.