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Trying to build a context-sensitive help system tying into a help system built by Flare for a web application.

When I saw that Flare could export header files from an existing help system I was pretty happy about that, so I attempted to create the header file for my 400+ topic help system, but the files generated have very little content in them! Only about 40 topics in fact, which really isn't going to cut it.

Is there something that needs to be inserted into the topics that will be part of the CSH? I was assuming that this would generate a header for all the topics under the main TOC for the original help project, but clearly it's not doing that.

Can you confirm what you tried, as export and generate are two different things.

If you exported the header, to .bas format for example, then only the existing IDs in the header file would be exported to the new format. https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... r-File.htm

If you want to create and assign new IDs, then you can choose to auto-generate them using a few predefined rules (including keeping any existing assigned IDs. https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... ifiers.htm