livetoski wrote:I am working in an index that was created eons ago, in another incarnation of the product and I'd like to be able to change the way things are indexed and edit the goofy stuff in the explorer pane, where I can see it all, instead of going in to each topic to edit it.
That's the way I think it should work, too, but at the moment, it doesn't. So you have to go to each topic and change the index entry in that topic. If you want the behavior to change, then submit a feature request to
http://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx.
livetoski wrote:I also find the Index Entry pane very finicky. I have to wait after I click or click more than once to edit an entry, although occasionally I get in with one click. I am not sure why this happens. Any idea?
I have the show tags option enabled that shows the index entries in their positions in the topic and I think I usually just double-click on that entry and it opens the Index Entry pane with the index text highlighted. But I don't have Flare running at the moment, so I'm not positive that that's how I do. It's one of those things you do so often that you forget the steps and just do it automatically. But try double-clicking on the index entry in the topic, if you have that option enabled.