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- Fri May 24, 2019 11:57 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Best way to lock content from translation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2197
Re: Best way to lock content from translation
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...
- Fri May 24, 2019 11:41 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Styles for toolbar buttons
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4048
Re: Styles for toolbar buttons
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...
- Fri May 24, 2019 11:28 am
- Forum: Source Control
- Topic: GIT and Imported Shared Project
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2455
Re: GIT and Imported Shared Project
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...
- Fri May 24, 2019 11:18 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Aligning Search bar in Tripane skin
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2152
Re: Aligning Search bar in Tripane skin
Can you post a screen shot so I can see exactly what element you're wanting centered?
- Fri May 24, 2019 11:16 am
- Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
- Topic: Adobe Framemaker required to build output
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6274
Re: Adobe Framemaker required to build output
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:
- Fri May 24, 2019 11:13 am
- Forum: Doc-To-Help General Discussion
- Topic: How to make Google index a guide?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9126
Re: How to make Google index a guide?
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...
- Fri May 17, 2019 1:13 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: How to work with DIVs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3666
Re: How to work with DIVs
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.
- Fri May 17, 2019 1:12 pm
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Plain ol' pop-ups
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4244
Re: Plain ol' pop-ups
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,...
- Fri May 17, 2019 11:33 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Micro Content wish list
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2001
Re: Micro Content wish list
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.
I know micro content is a feature they plan to continue developing, so I'm sure your suggestions would be welcome.
- Fri May 17, 2019 11:31 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Micro content and punctuation phrases
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1685
Re: Micro content and punctuation phrases
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...
- Fri May 17, 2019 11:27 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Inserting Frames in Weblayout
- Replies: 1
- Views: 911
Re: Inserting Frames in Weblayout
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.
- Fri May 17, 2019 11:24 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Inserting frames in Weblayout
- Replies: 1
- Views: 889
Re: Inserting frames in Weblayout
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.
- Fri May 17, 2019 11:23 am
- Forum: MadCap Lingo General Discussion
- Topic: Lingo and Microcontent
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1936
Re: Lingo and Microcontent
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.
- Fri May 17, 2019 11:21 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Hotspots in Image Maps
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1627
Re: Hotspots in Image Maps
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
For example, this jQuery plugin looks like it might work:
https://www.jqueryscript.net/other/High ... apoid.html
- Fri May 17, 2019 11:19 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Is there a way to exclude files from word count statistics?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1255
Re: Is there a way to exclude files from word count statisti
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!)
- Fri May 17, 2019 11:17 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Best way to lock content from translation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2197
Re: Best way to lock content from translation
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...
- Fri May 17, 2019 11:12 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Cross-reference search terms in SideNav help
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2003
Re: Cross-reference search terms in SideNav help
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.
- Fri May 17, 2019 11:05 am
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Cells filled with P tags in imported Word table
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12016
Re: Cells filled with P tags in imported Word table
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...
- Fri May 17, 2019 10:58 am
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: Cells filled with P tags in imported Word table
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12016
Re: Cells filled with P tags in imported Word table
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...
- Fri May 17, 2019 10:51 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Non TOC topics appear in Search
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17421
Re: Non TOC topics appear in Search
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...
- Fri May 17, 2019 10:37 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: How to work with DIVs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3666
Re: How to work with DIVs
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...
- Fri May 17, 2019 10:29 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: How can I customize an <xref> output?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4058
Re: How can I customize an <xref> output?
Happy to help! Hope it helps you get to where you want to be.
- Thu May 16, 2019 5:20 pm
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: adding custom tabs in the tripane HTML5 Help system
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1383
Re: adding custom tabs in the tripane HTML5 Help system
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...
- Thu May 16, 2019 5:17 pm
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: MiniTOC Proxy Examples
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2478
Re: MiniTOC Proxy Examples
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...
- Thu May 16, 2019 5:11 pm
- Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
- Topic: How to control widows and orphans in PDF output?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2951
Re: How to control widows and orphans in PDF output?
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.