Examples on MadCap Site...How Did They Bypass Skin?

[straygoat]

Hi All

I've just upgraded to Flare 9 and was looking at the MadCap site. On there, there are a couple of examples that seem to bypass the skin and use the flare content in a non-Flare interface (I'm guessing CSS web layout or something). I just wondered if anyone knows how to do this? Does using Flare files outside of the skin mean a lot of the Flare features can't be supported? (i.e. it is like a standard web site).

Thanks

[Nita Beck]

I'm not sure what you're referring to. Perhaps if you took a screenshot we could then comment.

[straygoat]

Hmm....looks like the case studies have changed since I last looked. They used to have case studies that didn't look like Flare output - they looked more like a web page layout, with different divs etc.

[LTinker68]

You can do it, but it requires a lot of modification to the default.htm, Flare-generated stylesheet files, perhaps some of the JS files, and so on, so you really need a background in HTML, CSS, etc. So it can be done, but not within Flare. Most of the ones I've seen in the past were modifications to WebHelp output; don't know if anyone has done it with HTML5, or if it's easier or harder with that output.

[NorthEast]

If you look at ZebraZapps, and the code behind it, it bears little resemblance to a MadCap help output.
http://help.zebrazapps.com/#home

[Thomas Tregner]

That looks like Sencha stuff. http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/