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The text from the ordered list is used as the tooltips in your image map, and each mapped area has a Tab Index from 1 to 5. The image has 5 mapped areas and under the image there is an ordered list. You can use this as a template for creating basic interactive images in Flare. If you have any problems, try setting the image dimensions inline and removing any CSS resizing. This is the image map, our image maps should be responsive.

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We add some extra attributes to the code to get this to work in Flare, for example, 'Class', 'ID', and 'data-name'. Image Map Example Topic The following screenshot was taken from : This will be the image in your Flare project.

If you create a new topic and paste this into the text editor, it should work. I’m going to spare you the detail and simply share a working version of a Topic with this all set up. Getting the Flare generated Image Map to link up with the JQuery plugins involved adding some extra IDs and Classes. This inserts the image map into your topic. In my example, I’ve taken a screenshot of the W3 info on Image Maps. If you find your image map isn't working, try removing one of the libraries from your build.Ĭreating an image map is straightforward in Flare, you right-click an image, and select Image Map…. It also includes a second API reference example, where the content is displayed in HTML format.Now you might run into some trouble as Flare might insert the JQuery library during your build. The Markdown file has been imported, but no amendments have been made to the look and feel. Here is screenshot and a link to an example Help file, where the OpenAPI file has been imported into Flare, using the Markdown import.

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See also: Cherryleaf’s API documentation writing services Update Amending the cascading stylesheet for the Stripe-style API documentation.

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We’ve not made any changes to the default styles for the PDF manual.

Then you can use a scheduling tool to run the batch file automatically.įurther work could be done to improve the outputs: This means you can create a batch file with the necessary commands in it.

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Generate and publish your web site. You can run Flare’s “Build” command from the operating system’s command line. NA compared to last month Top Competitors and Alternatives of MadCap Flare The top three of MadCap Flare’s competitors in the User Guides And Help Documentation Software category are Inline Manual with 35.67, IT Glue with 20.50, HelpDocs with 12.81 market share.

We found we needed to create a CSS file with the same name, as there were some issues with displaying the top navigation menu bar. The API reference HTML file links to a cascading stylesheet file. Flare recognises when changes have been made to the source documents. Select Link Generated Files to Source Files. This creates a connection between the original HTML files and the files that are created as a result of the import.

Import the API reference HTML file into Flare.

This could be generated automatically each day.

Generate the API reference documentation in HTML format from the OpenAPI specification file.

Flare also manage the content, search, linking, pdfs, tables, flowcharts etc. Using MadCap Flare means you can provide a consistent user experience: for the reference, troubleshooting, getting started and tutorial content. Whenever the REST API specification is updated, that content automatically updates itself in the Flare project. The documentation portal includes API reference documentation that was generated automatically from a Swagger/OpenAPI specification file. We’ve just uploaded an example project of an API documentation portal created using MadCap Flare:

Example of API documentation portal using MadCap Flare.

Creating an API documentation portal with MadCap Flare and Swagger/OpenAPI.

Note: This post follows on from two previous posts on creating a unified API documentation portal:

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