{"id":667,"date":"2013-09-03T03:28:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T03:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tregner.com\/flare-blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2014-03-14T01:32:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T01:32:57","slug":"create-topics-in-bulk-with-a-plug-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tregner.com\/flare-blog\/create-topics-in-bulk-with-a-plug-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Topics in Bulk with a Plug-in"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note (3\/13\/2014): A change to the API for version 10 requires adjusting the code in this sample if the plug-in is to be used with version 10. The change is explained in\u00a0Adjusting Flare 9 Plug-ins for Flare 10<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you just want to create a bunch of blank topics all at once and put all of those topics in a TOC.<\/p>\n

\"batch-topics-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"batch-topics-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"batch-topics-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you are interested in that sort of thing, you can create a Flare plug-in to add the functionality to MadCap Flare. If you want to play around with the code to create what is shown in the preceding screen shots, here is a sample solution and project: FlarePlugins.zip<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you just want to try it, here is a plug-in DLL: BatchTopics.dll<\/a>\u00a0and help for MadCap’s Plug-in API<\/a>. Use the code or the plug-in at your own risk. No warranty is offered. Let me know what you think in the comments.<\/p>\n

Edit (9\/102013): There is additional information at MadBlog<\/a>. Also the project and DLL were recently updated to fix a namespace issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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