Hyperlinks did not survive my FM import

[Arnaud]

Hello, I am a new Flare user, and i am French, so i hope i'm going to make my point clear enough.

I am currently performing my first import from FM to Flare. I thought it would be much easier, but after having dealt with wrong characters (é, à and ', and other ones that are frequent in my language), some missing images, i am now facing a bigger problem:

the links do not work!
most of them do appear as links (i.e. underlined blue) but do not work, and some even lost their link appearance.
looking in the code, it comes that the expected <a href are replaced by <MadCap:xref class="XRef_Plain" and that the pathes are stange. For example, i find this path (that does not work):
<MadCap:xref class="XRef_Plain"="Passage en mode indexé.htm#Working_with_a_fabric_3144559764_1213258"
whereas i expect something like:
<a href="../060-Fabric/040-Indexe.htm"> (that i wrote and that works)

my question is obviously how do i get correct links after my re-organizing the imported files?
each of my changes in Flare was followed by the Update links window, so i guessed the links were supposed to be updated. But it seems they are not.
What are your experiences or advices fot my import and for my further ones ?
What did i do wrong ?

I am surprised to have so many problems with a procedure that is announced as being easy by Flare...

[GregStenhouse]

How are you checking the links?

"madcap" tags (e.g. <MadCap:xref class="XRef_Plain") are propriety XHTML tags that are only used within Flare. They will not do anything if you view the content HTML topics in a browser. You are best to either check links from within Madcap (e.g. Ctrl+click on links or run a report), or generate a target and check the links from your output folder.

Generally I've found importing from Frame into Flare works well as long as the FrameMaker files are well tagged and structured, and have no overrides.