Micro Content button grayed out

[Curlyshell]

When I select text in a topic, the Micro Content button isn't always available.

It seems that paragraph (<p>) text lights up the Micro Content button, but list text keeps it grayed out. H3 is good; H7 not so much.

I submitted the bug, but does anyone have a workaround?

[ChoccieMuffin]

There is no such heading level as H7, so that might be why.

I've just checked and when I highlighted an entire list and right-clicked, the Create Micro Content option does appear on the context menu. Use the ul block to the left of the text to highlight the list (or the li block if you just want to include a single list item) rather than just clicking and dragging, to ensure you do get the whole list.

[Curlyshell]

Thanks! Using the block works for the entire list (<ul>) but not for a subset of bullets (<li>). That sounds picky, but sometimes I don't want the entire list to be part of my micro content. But when I tried to move the tags around in the HTML so only the text I wanted was part of the micro content, the code was declared invalid. So I can see where MadCap will claim that's a feature.

[ChoccieMuffin]

Thanks! Using the block works for the entire list (<ul>) but not for a subset of bullets (<li>). That sounds picky, but sometimes I don't want the entire list to be part of my micro content. But when I tried to move the tags around in the HTML so only the text I wanted was part of the micro content, the code was declared invalid. So I can see where MadCap will claim that's a feature.

As long as the list items you want to appear in the microcontent are all together at the beginning of the list, you could split your big list into two lists, one after the other. If they're numbered lists, for the second one (that by default would start with 1 again) set the starting number. So in your output nobody will notice the difference but you'll be able to use the first list as microcontent.

[doloremipsum]

@ChocciMuffin: good advice, but one tip: if you are trying to string together two numbered lists, it's actually not a great idea to set the starting number manually. If the number of items in the first part of the list changes, the second half will start in the wrong place!

Instead, right click on the <ol> bar and click "Continue Sequence" - the list will start wherever the previous list left off. This is extremely useful for segmented lists including snippets or microcontent.

RE: the original question: even if you can't create MC directly from the ribbon while editing the topic, can you manually create MC which only have the <li> tags, then insert them back into the topic? That's what I do with snippets - something a bit like this:

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<ol>
    <Madcap:snippetblock />
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
</ol>

And the snippet just has:

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<li> </li>
<li> </li>

[ChoccieMuffin]

@ChocciMuffin: good advice, but one tip: if you are trying to string together two numbered lists, it's actually not a great idea to set the starting number manually. If the number of items in the first part of the list changes, the second half will start in the wrong place!

Instead, right click on the <ol> bar and click "Continue Sequence" - the list will start wherever the previous list left off. This is extremely useful for segmented lists including snippets or microcontent.

Cool, thanks for that - every day's a learning day!