How do I assign a default topic?

[DougO]

Brand new to Flare - still in trial period - building a sample project to demo to our exec team.

I'm using an alias file. When no alias is assigned, or help is opened in the main screen, I want a Welcome page to appear by default.

I created a Welcome.htm, added it to the alias file, and gave it a value of 1000.

Our developer programmed our software to point to Default.htm if no identifier is selected.

When I build my project, the output folder generates a Default.htm file and a Default_CSH.htm file, and these point to a different page than what I want.

How can I change this, and get the Default to be my welcome page?

[dorcutt]

Hi Doug,

I believe the following steps should solve your issue:

1. Open up the target that you are using to generate your web output
2. In the General tab of the target, directly to the right of the Startup Topic field, you'll find a button with an ellipse on it. Click that.
3. Browse to your "Welcome.htm" file that you want to be the default page, click it, and then click Open

This tells Flare to use the Welcome.htm file as its new Default.html page, and you should be set.

[DougO]

Yup. That did the trick. Thank you!