by Craig | Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | Content Design, Technical Communication Issues
For years, I’ve avoided accordions in my content. But recently, I’ve changed my tune. What’s made me change my mind? Read on to find out. What is an accordion? Before we go any further, let’s make it clear what I’m talking about when I...
by Craig | Friday, January 5, 2018 | MadCap Flare
Are you looking for a way to build Flare help with the layout of a tripane, but the looks of a top nav? This post will help. Here, I’m going to give you with a demo project that will give you an output like the image shown here. This works in Flare 2017r3 and is...
by Craig | Wednesday, June 22, 2016 | MadCap Flare
This is Part 5 of a series of posts on how to create the following layout, complete with accordion menu and slide-in drill-down menu, in MadCap Flare. If you missed the previous parts, here are links: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four In this post, I’m...
by Craig | Sunday, June 12, 2016 | MadCap Flare
UPDATE – Thanks to Nita Beck for pointing out the WordPress-introduced weirdness in the script in this section. I’ve changed the content so that you can now download the script rather than create it from scratch. I still recommend that you read through...
by Craig | Tuesday, May 31, 2016 | MadCap Flare
NOTE! This solution only works for versions of Flare that are older than Flare 2017 r2. This is because Flare 2017 r2 has a different way of handling the toc and minitocs. But the good news is that Flare 2017r3 had an update that made an accordion menu possible. For...