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UPDATE: This article applies to Flare versions 11 and less. A new feature was introduced in Flare 12 to make it much easier to associate topics with a different Master Page (see http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare12/Content/Master_Pages/Associating_Master_Pages_with_Topics.htm).What do you do if you want some topics in your project to use one Master Page and other topics to use a different Master Page? That's the question I had to ask recently, and the answer wasn't immediately obvious. In Flare 10, the most common way of associating a Master Page with a topic is to associate it with the entire project (via the Target), but doing that applies the Master Page to every topic. I looked around, expecting to find a simple 'link with master page' option, but no, there was no such thing. So I went ahead and asked MadCap and got a surprisingly convoluted solution, which you can see below.
To apply a Master Page to just one topic, you need to create a new html class in your CSS stylesheet. Yep, that's right, you've got to mess about with CSS. Luckily, what you need to do is pretty easy.
That's it, job done.Hopefully, MadCap will make a simpler mechanism for doing this in future releases of Flare. They agreed with me that it is not as user-friendly as it could be and an improvement request has been made, so fingers crossed.
Craig Wright is an experienced technical writer based in Chesterfield, UK. He hates writing about himself in the third person, so I shall stop now.
Always interested in new content writing opportunities. Remote working preferred.
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