Generate responsive tables from concepts?

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Martin_B
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Generate responsive tables from concepts?

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I don't know Flare or styling well enough to know if this is possible; my hope is that somehow you can generate a list of items tagged with a concept, and then turn that list into a responsive table.

I want to set up a series of responsive tables as landing pages to make navigation for our users a little simpler, but don't want the maintenance of having to manually adjust the tables for new content.

Happy to hear about anything that will accomplish something like this, as manually creating the links and grids each time feels a little daunting.
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Re: Generate responsive tables from concepts?

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Have you looked in Flare's help? You can insert a concepts proxy.
http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare201 ... ncepts.htm
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Re: Generate responsive tables from concepts?

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Dave Lee wrote:Have you looked in Flare's help? You can insert a concepts proxy.
http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare201 ... ncepts.htm
My impression from this was that it listed all concepts and associated pages, not pages related to a specific concept?
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Re: Generate responsive tables from concepts?

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Martin_B wrote:
Dave Lee wrote:Have you looked in Flare's help? You can insert a concepts proxy.
http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare201 ... ncepts.htm
My impression from this was that it listed the concepts, not pages related to a specific concept?
Try it out.

It'll show a list of concepts (headings), and under each concept it'll show a list of links to topics with that concept.
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Re: Generate responsive tables from concepts?

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Dave Lee wrote:
Martin_B wrote:
Dave Lee wrote:Have you looked in Flare's help? You can insert a concepts proxy.
http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare201 ... ncepts.htm
My impression from this was that it listed the concepts, not pages related to a specific concept?
Try it out.

It'll show a list of concepts (headings), and under each concept it'll show a list of links to topics with that concept.
I did, but there doesn't appear to be a way to only display the pages related to a specific concept, instead I get a list of all my concepts and the pages associated with each concept.
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Re: Generate responsive tables from concepts?

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Got it. Should be using the mini-TOC proxy. Should have read the manual first.
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Re: Generate responsive tables from concepts?

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Martin_B wrote:Got it. Should be using the mini-TOC proxy. Should have read the manual first.
If you're working with help outputs, then look at the menu proxy rather than the mini-TOC. The menu proxy is much more flexible - i.e. you can control what's displayed in the menu, and which TOC file it's linked to.
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