What's new in Flare Version 3.1

In addition to many productivity enhancements, some of the new features YOU asked for, that have been implemented in Version 3.1 include:

- Tab between User Interface Elements
- Running HF Variables Available in Word Output
- Custom Size for Topic Popups
- Print Output Enhancements:
- TOC Depth for Heading Levels (i.e., base print TOC on online TOC structure)
- Headings for Unlinked Books in Generated TOC
- Remove Images from Headings in Generated TOC
- Exclude Accordion Titles from WebHelp Output
- Ignore Glossary Terms in Styles, allowing automatic conversion to links for specific styles
- Skin Styles for Feedback Registration Dialog
- Skin Styles for CHM Feedback
- Include Stop Words in Search (such as “an” and “the”)
- Show Navigation Link in WebHelp Standalone Topics
- Link to CHM Files from DotNet Help and WebHelp
- Preserve Original Image Size in FrameMaker Imports

What's New in Flare Version 3.0

Source Control Integration

Direct integration with Microsoft Visual Source Safe and Microsoft Team Foundation Server
Integration with most other industry source control systems (that use the MS SCC API interface)
Easier Team Authoring than in previous versions
Pending Check-Ins window to show you what files are in your control
File List — Status and User Columns so that you can see the file activity for the rest of the team
Request check in Via Email or Instant Message from another team member
Right-Click Source Control Menu
Built in Instant Messaging client for rapid communication between team members
View history and roll back to earlier versions of files

MadCap Feedback Integration

Web-based and desktop-based targets
Access to External Feedback Explorer
Built-in Feedback Explorer
Community-wide comments
Author-only comments
Topics ratings
Comment actions (accept, hide, discard)
All search phrases used
Search phrases with no results
Exporting feedback data to external files

WebHelp Plus

Faster server-side search
Searching of non-HTML content (MS Word documents, PDF files, etc.)
Automatic runtime merging of projects without any in-project work
Auto-merged search functionality
Auto-merged TOC options

Advanced FrameMaker Import and Support

Pass-through marker support (pass raw content or data from FrameMaker to Flare without any processing or modification)
Drop-down support
TopicAlias marker support
Hypertext Marker / Jump to Named Destination support

Enhanced Style Support

Expanded table print styles for more control when sending output to MS Word, FrameMaker, or PDF
Optional basic Style Editor for the new user
Import styles
Search highlight styles (customise search highlight colours)

Improved User Interface

Carrot tag neighbourhood markers(a new method for working with inline formatting when necessary)
New TOC grid view provides more control over TOC editing
New customisable columns for various Flare interface screens

Other Enhancements

New Synonym Editor (enhance end user search results)
Snippet conditions (for times when small differences exist in large pieces of reusable content)
Add a Web toolbar for HTML output
Expand all/collapse all buttons (TOC Editor, Browse Sequence Editor, Content Explorer, Project Organizer)
Can now select multiple TOC or browse sequence entries
New "Send to Main Dock" option to easily transfer interface elements between editor positions
File>Properties applies to all file types now
Default align command
New option to close all documents except the active one