DITA abstract element not being imported

[mjansari]

Hi,

I'm having a strange issues when importing DITA topics in Flare 6. After the import and I open my Flare project, I see that the DITA abstract element hasn't been imported, but everything else has. I get the same issue with the trial version of Flare 8. Can anyone help me figure out what I might be doing wrong.

Thanks!

[wbrisett]

So I took a look at this and you're right. However, I'm not really sure what Madcap has is the wrong behavior either.

According to the DITA spec, <abstract> is placed between the title and the body, and used when the initial paragraph of a topic isn't suitable for a link preview. This means, that when imported It isn't suppose to go in the main body of the text. According to the import editor, Madcap has set the <abstract> attribute to be a div tag called abstract. However, like you, I don't see that element being used. I tried this in both Flare 7 and Flare 8 and had the same results. I think you're going to have to open a bug up on this. For now, you might try changing <abstract> in your DITA topics to <shortdesc> which last time I used them did work in Flare.


Wayne

[mjansari]

Hi Wayne,

Thanks for confirming my issue. I too also noticed that changing abstract to shortdesc works.

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