I've downloaded a template from https://www.madcapsoftware.com/download ... templates/
But it's not clear to me
1. How do I change an existing project to use this template
2. How do I change the template? I can't find where in the project/Content the various elements on the home page sit so that
Thanks
using the "Responsive Gradient Panel Layout" template
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Re: using the "Responsive Gradient Panel Layout" template
A common misunderstanding about Flare project templates is that they can be applied retroactively to existing projects. They cannot. Rather, a Flare project template is something that one starts with, and then adapts from there. It's not like a Word template that can be attached to an existing doc.
I think you have two options, either of which I'd do with a COPY of your project, as you could do serious damage. With either option, prepare to do a lot of adaptation to get stuff right.
One option is to start a brand new project based on the new template. Then, you can import topics, snippets, and images from your source project. You are likely to have to adjust styles within them, else add more styles to the project's stylesheet to accommodate the imported topics and images. Build out a new TOC OR import the TOC from your source project; you'll need to hook the target in the new project to that TOC. And this is just the beginning of your adaptation. This is not the approach that I'd recommend.
Another option, "easier" by comparison but still rather involved, is to take a COPY of your project and then import into it those bits and pieces that you want from a project based on the new responsive template. You'll import things like the stylesheets (which you may want to rename FIRST in the new project to avoid overwriting the stylesheet in your project, assuming they are the same; same for things like skins and master pages.), skins, master pages, some images perhaps.
You might want to read through how MadCap adapted their old tripane Help system to Top Nav when it first came out. They used the second option. They imported into their existing project those bits and pieces from the Top Nav template that they wanted to use. They turned their experience into a tutorial, covered here: http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare201 ... ersion.htm. Of course, you'd be adapting this process to your project and to the responsive template project, given that you're going from a Top Nav to another Top Nav set up, rather than from Tripane to Top Nav. The principles discussed are still relevant.
Hope that wasn't too confusing. A bit of stream-of-consciousness on my part.
I think you have two options, either of which I'd do with a COPY of your project, as you could do serious damage. With either option, prepare to do a lot of adaptation to get stuff right.
One option is to start a brand new project based on the new template. Then, you can import topics, snippets, and images from your source project. You are likely to have to adjust styles within them, else add more styles to the project's stylesheet to accommodate the imported topics and images. Build out a new TOC OR import the TOC from your source project; you'll need to hook the target in the new project to that TOC. And this is just the beginning of your adaptation. This is not the approach that I'd recommend.
Another option, "easier" by comparison but still rather involved, is to take a COPY of your project and then import into it those bits and pieces that you want from a project based on the new responsive template. You'll import things like the stylesheets (which you may want to rename FIRST in the new project to avoid overwriting the stylesheet in your project, assuming they are the same; same for things like skins and master pages.), skins, master pages, some images perhaps.
You might want to read through how MadCap adapted their old tripane Help system to Top Nav when it first came out. They used the second option. They imported into their existing project those bits and pieces from the Top Nav template that they wanted to use. They turned their experience into a tutorial, covered here: http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare201 ... ersion.htm. Of course, you'd be adapting this process to your project and to the responsive template project, given that you're going from a Top Nav to another Top Nav set up, rather than from Tripane to Top Nav. The principles discussed are still relevant.
Hope that wasn't too confusing. A bit of stream-of-consciousness on my part.
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Re: using the "Responsive Gradient Panel Layout" template
Thanks
I would think that as a minimum Madcap should point out where the key files are:
I followed your second approach and the answer is (so far)
1. rename and copy the following files from the template project to your existing project
a) Content/Home.htm
b) Resources/Stylesheets/StylesForHomePage.css
c) Resources/MasterPages/HomePage.flmsp
2. Change the links in the <html> of a) to point to files b) and c)
3. Copy icons from Content/Resources/Images/Assets/Icons/MainIcons or get others from somewhere else
4. edit (easier in a text editor) file a) and change the entries (marked here in italics) in the body to suit your content
you create rows with multiple tiles using:
<div class="home-tiles">
</div>
each tile has the structure :
<div>
<p class="tile-title"><a href="A1_System Overview/overview_homePage.htm">Overview</a> </p>
<p class="tile-subtitle">Read about the Eyes Solution.</p>
<p class="tile-content">
<img src="Resources/Images/Assets/Icons/MainIcons/Services-black.png" />
</p>
<p class="tile-content">Top Level view of the system functionality, Architecture and work flow and Key Concepts. </p>
</div>
I would think that as a minimum Madcap should point out where the key files are:
I followed your second approach and the answer is (so far)
1. rename and copy the following files from the template project to your existing project
a) Content/Home.htm
b) Resources/Stylesheets/StylesForHomePage.css
c) Resources/MasterPages/HomePage.flmsp
2. Change the links in the <html> of a) to point to files b) and c)
3. Copy icons from Content/Resources/Images/Assets/Icons/MainIcons or get others from somewhere else
4. edit (easier in a text editor) file a) and change the entries (marked here in italics) in the body to suit your content
you create rows with multiple tiles using:
<div class="home-tiles">
</div>
each tile has the structure :
<div>
<p class="tile-title"><a href="A1_System Overview/overview_homePage.htm">Overview</a> </p>
<p class="tile-subtitle">Read about the Eyes Solution.</p>
<p class="tile-content">
<img src="Resources/Images/Assets/Icons/MainIcons/Services-black.png" />
</p>
<p class="tile-content">Top Level view of the system functionality, Architecture and work flow and Key Concepts. </p>
</div>