CHM Output: Red Asterisk on Topics & Book Icons

[rmdavidson]

I searched all the Flare forums on here and came up with 4 responses that didn't match and Google was coming up with solar flares, stars, chemicals, etc despite searching for "red asterisk" + flare +chm so I'm posting this here.

When I build a CHM and view it several of my topics and a book or two has a red asterisk on the icon, but I don't know why. These are topics the last writer(s) (and non-writers) created. The help here has been "frankensteined together" (to quote my boss) using different softwares and various writers so I'm slowly working my way through straightening it all out.

Robin

[RamonS]

IIRC this indicates new topics and books. I think there is a setting for this in the target.

[Paul Griffiths]

Another possibility is that a previous author has set a particular HTML Help icon against these TOC entries.

To check this, open the TOC editor, right-click the TOC entry and choose Properties. In the Properties dialog, on the Advanced tab, check whether the HTML Help Icon drop-down is showing an asterisked icon or, as it should be, "(default)".

[rmdavidson]

Another possibility is that a previous author has set a particular HTML Help icon against these TOC entries.

To check this, open the TOC editor, right-click the TOC entry and choose Properties. In the Properties dialog, on the Advanced tab, check whether the HTML Help Icon drop-down is showing an asterisked icon or, as it should be, "(default)".

Everything is set to default under Advanced. Hmm...does my being under View Primary and not Publishing have anything to do with it perhaps?

Robin

[paul55]

I searched all the Flare forums on here and came up with 4 responses that didn't match and Google was coming up with solar flares, stars, chemicals, etc despite searching for "red asterisk" + flare +chm so I'm posting this here.

If you include a Google search term of "site:madcapsoftware.com" it'll knock out the solar flares, etc. The MadCap forum site is by far the most useful reference I've found for answering Flare-related questions, so I don't think you're losing much by filtering out the whole rest of the Web. Then you can benefit from Google's searching which does a pretty good job of finding postings relevant to what you're looking for. And you can also drop "+flare" since it usually won't be necessary if you're only looking at MadCap's site.

Also, for CHM help you might want to search on: chm OR htmlhelp OR "html help" as another set of search terms. Unfortunately Google doesn't let you include multiple "OR" expressions (at least not that I know of). So...

site:madcapsoftware.com red asterisk chm OR htmlhelp OR "html help"

Searching on the above turned up this post, which might help:

http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... =6&t=13144

HTH,

-Paul

[rmdavidson]

Paul,

Thanks for the link. I looked under the Skins > Sleek > Styles > TOCEntry > MarkAsNew and it's not set. Ha!

The longer I work with this doc the more I'm tempted to take the "nuclear" option as was suggested in response to another post of mine and start over, but it's so big and I'm so new to Flare that I'm reluctant to do that.

Robin

[wclass]

Look back in the TOC file, check the Properties of the entry and look on the General tab - there is a Mark as New selection list there - that should be set to NO.

[LTinker68]

I don't have Flare open at the moment to double-check, but I think the Mark as New option that Margaret mentioned shows up in the File View table, so you could sort on that column and remove that attribute from all applicable entries at once.

[rmdavidson]

Look back in the TOC file, check the Properties of the entry and look on the General tab - there is a Mark as New selection list there - that should be set to NO.

This one was it. Seems there is 3 ways to do everything in Flare.

Robin