False positives on undefined variables.

[keuler]

It looks like Analyzer is giving people a lot of erroneous results. My main complaint is that it's finding hundreds of hits in the Undefined Variables report, when the variables clearly are defined.

Does anyone have this particular problem too?

[Dirk]

This shows up as a Database Error for me:

Variable: SQL logic error or missing databasetable Variable has no column named Variable Type

I have Undefined Variables reported, and Broken Links reported related to these variables.

This must be a bug in Analyzer, since these variables are all valid, and they work OK in Flare.

[Dirk]

You can clean up the mess by closing both Analyzer and Flare, and then deleting the Analyzer cache.

Go to

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C:\Users\[your_username]\AppData\Local\MadCap Software\Analyzer

and delete all the files in this folder. By default, "AppData" is hidden by Windows, so you might need to turn on hidden directories.

When you restart Analyzer, it will do a new analysis of the project.

I still consider this to be a bug, since MadCap should be able to clean up their own mess in restricted directories.

[Mari0n]

@Dirk - Thanks, that really helped me with my falsely reported broken links

[glejeune]

This was helpful - thanks!
As an additional tip, I found that exposing the AppData folder (removing the hidden attribute), and setting it to read/write, and not read-only, made Analyzer able to find and update the report list automatically.