Automatically apply conditional build tags

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• Apply conditional build tags to keywords in the Index?

  My client has a package tailor-made for a specific customer in their software. There is a help topic common with conditional compilation tags applied to content, allowing a layout to the standard product, and aid excludes any reference to material on measurement, and the other available include text on the module to measure. This works well, with the exception of the Index keywords for custom stuff, which still appears in the Index for the standard Help Guide.
  
  Any ideas anyone? How can I index tag keywords while they are excluded from a defined page layout?

  Hello Phillip

  In addition to my colleague Peter's response, using RoboHelp 7? If so, I think that we can now apply a condition to a single sentence index on the Index designer pod. I don't remember if this possibility has been introduced in Adobe RoboHelp 6, but maybe it's there as well.

  See you soon... Rick

• Subject and content conditional build tags

  What is the difference between a subject and a content level conditional compilation tag? Why you would select one over the other? How do you choose one over the other.

  First of all, let me point out that the same conditional compilation tag can be applied to the level of the heading or content. Looks like you may think that you need to create a tag with respect to the level of content or the subject.

  Apply a tag to the level of the topic when you want the whole subject excluded a certain output. Do a right click on a topic in your project manager will apply conditional Build Tag and select the tag.

  Apply a tag to the content (text, images) when you want the subject to be included but want specific content to be excluded from a certain power. Apply a tag to this level by selecting the text and/or images that you want to apply the tag, right click, will apply conditional Build Tag and the tag collection.

  Note that you would use a tag at level section on a topic where you have used that same tag at the level of content and vice versa.

  Generally, the idea of building tags is to set up an output to exclude certain tags, but you can also set outputs to include the tags instead, then which excludes all other tags.

  -Ben

• RH8 conditional build Tags - new content returned in searches

  I had to create a CHM books or specific topics of my project.

  So I created a tag of conditional compilation, applied to the desired content and generated a CHM. I noticed that the table of contents contains only these books/subjects that I've specified with conditional build tags, but:

  • The size of the CHM file is identical to the full version.
  • Unspecified subjects back research.
  • Links under the headings specified subjects unspecified work normally.

  These bugs are RH8?

  PS: I posted this question in another section but then noticed he was in the Flash forum, so I'm reposting here. Sorry for the confusion.

  Orignal post: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3984317#3984317

  See my response to the original message. Please post back with all of the remaining issues.

  Take a bow

  Willam

• RoboHelp HTML version 9 - How can I prevent a conditional build tag to detach a text extract when I modify the clip?

  I added a conditional build tag to a text of the snippet in a given topic. However, when I edited the snippet of the conditional build tag has been removed from this topic. Fortunately, I noticed it was missing, but not know I wonder: can I do to prevent that does not happen?

  Thanks in advance.

  I think I found the solution myself. It seems that if the topic is open the conditional build tag will be deleted if the excerpt is published. If the topic is not open it's OK. so I guess that he should be careful to have only open things operates actully!

• Conditional compilation tags do not work for printed documents

  Hi all
  
  I'm working on the huge aid project, a unique project for several clients. I use conditional compilation tag features to determine what topics, links, images, text, etc. should be included or excluded the CHM for the appropriate client file.
  
  When I tried to generate printed documentation (DOC and PDF) for a conditional build tag, I was upset by the fact that conditional construction used in TOC label do not work... The output document contains all the themes of the project help, despite the good create a conditional Expression defined for this schema of the source.
  
  "Nobody knows how the correct subjects can automatically participate in the layout of chapter (see page 'Printed Documentation' Setup Assistant ' Presentation of the Document Print') in accordance with the conditional Build Expression in the 'print general Document' Wizard page"Printed Documentation"settings defined)?
  If it works? I think Yes, because this is the absurd, if I need to compare subjects with the table of contents and manually select them :(
  
  Please, help me...
  Olga

  You do not apply the tag the right way. Applying to the table of contents only excludes the topic to the table of contents online.

  Apply the tag to the section in the project manager, and it will work as you want.

  No bug.

• RH6 dislikes the conditional compilation Tags?

  We went just to HR 6 yesterday and I've been upgrading of our projects and test them. One of the projects (project A) seems to have upgraded correctly. It's very simple: no conditional build tags or conditional constructions. I generated WebHelp perfectly and spot tested a few links just to get an idea of how the project is in the new version.
  
  However, the other project (project B) is complex and includes several build tags. When I generate WebHelp with one or several tags in the build, I get an error and the report. Here are the steps I took to solve problems, but still can not find the cause:
  
  1. If I UNDERSTAND all the tags to build the project B (no excluded), I have NO errors. So, I thought that there could be a problem with delayed RHX5 tags.
  2. I then tried to create a new tag RH6 project b and excluding that, and I get the error again. Then, I was wondering if it is a global problem with RH6.
  3. so then I opened a project has, (who had no problem so far) and created a new tag it and excluded. I had NO errors. This project continues to operate correctly.
  
  So it appears there is something wrong with the project B. It may or may not have something to do with the tags.
  
  Is anyone else had problems with complex projects with a lot of tags in RH6? I appreciate all help. I'm puzzled.
  
  Thank you
  Lisa

  Hi Rick and Harvey,

  Sorry I was not more specific, Harvey. HR completely crashes (stop) after you acknowledge the error. The error report was extremely long, so I hesitated to make my message too long if someone would recognize the problem comes with a short description.

  It turns out that I used the fixed. DLL that Rick made reference in his message. It is extracted from Peter #71, RH6 Patch for the issue of the merged cells and links problem. This corrects the problem.

  Thank you, Rick and Harvey, for your help and responses!

  Lisa

  P.S. on a different note, I must say that I REALLY like to be able to get rid of my subjects of redirect and tag TOC and index instead of RH6 entries. AWESOME!

• FM 10 crashing when you apply the conditional text tag

  Hello everyone.

  For some reason, the FM crashes when I try to apply a conditional text tag to a table (full table). Funny thing is that I did this same thing for three months now without any problem before today, have even two tables in the same document with different tags that are applied to them and that they work correctly.  But when I try to add it, I have a crash. I restarted my computer and made sure all my drivers are up to date, but now I'm at a loss.  Any help?

  Thank you.

  > I select all rows in the table with the mouse, then...

  What happens if you apply the CC to just the anchor of the flow table has.

  When you're conditionalizing an entire table, just the anchor of marking is generally easier and in your case, may be more stable.

• FM 9: Cannot apply conditional tags

  I was able to create conditional text tags, apply it and see good conditional indicators in several documents using 9 FM. Recently, in a new book, I am unable to apply conditional tags. I think I got the new user interface, since conditional marking has worked before. I can create tags and configure them fine, but when I apply the text, table, graphic, etc, that nothing is happening. the text remains unconditional.

  You don't describe your steps. So, make sure that on the pod of conditional text, you select the condition, and then select the option button, then click on apply. If you forget to program before you click on apply, the condition is not applied.

• Conditional compilation tags or phrases in the table of contents

  Hi all

  I meet another problem with my conversion, this time with the tags and conditional compilation expressions.
  Everything seems to go well in my subjects, but not in my table of contents.

  Some of my topic titles have words with conditional text applied in the source FrameMaker document.

  These subject titles also appear in the table of contents that are automatically generated when I connect my framework book in Robohelp.

  I put the conditional compilation expression in the Webhelp settings dialog box and then save and build.

  These topic titles appear to pick up the correct conditional compilation expression in the subjects themselves, but the title of the table of contents displays several conditions (including the condition that I set myself to 'Exclude').

  Thus, for example, if the title of my topic is

  "Conventions in this documentonline help."

  WHERE
  -----
  document > should appear in PDF format only
  and
  online help > must only appear in Webhelp

  I can get the Webhelp topic to use the title "Conventions in this online help.

  but the corresponding TOC header looks like this:
  "Conventions in this documentonline help.

  Any ideas?

  Thank you.
  What

  Conditional compilation tags are not imported to the table of contents of the FrameMaker content. However, you can follow another approach to achieve this. We can manage the conditional compilation expression in FrameMaker itself and import the content of filterted in RoboHelp. In order to achieve this, set the conditional compilation expression in FrameMaker. Enable the setting in RoboHelp to 'apply FrameMaker text building conditional Expression '. [File->-> import-> Edit (FrameMaker settings)-> other settings of project settings]

  This way of RoboHelp will import only the content filtered with conditional tags build resolved according to the expression applied in FrameMaker.

  MILIN

• Reactive layouts: publish multiple Sites with conditional Builds and which connect

  I hope that someone can provide a simple solution to publish problems I've had with adapted presentations when you try to publish several sites with conditional builds. Essentially, I want to be able to have an index page that links to one of the two variants of the published sites that I called 'General' and 'specific '. When I click on the 'general' link I want to not open the site which was published with a conditional for all these subjects compilation labeled as 'general' and when I click on the 'link' want it to open the site which was published using a conditional version for 'specific '.

  Here are the steps I took to create sites and can't seem to get to bind correctly:

  Table of contents, topic Creation and tagging content

  1. Creates a Table of contents.
  2. Added 2 topics in the Table of contents. The first topic, I called "general" and the second issue I called, 'specific '.
  3. I then click with the right button on the "general" and selected subject Tag to build conditional apply. From there, I've created a new tag called "General".
  4. I repeated this process to create the specific tag, but do a right-click on the 'specific' theme and the creation of a new tag called "specific".

  Layouts reactive and edited the sites based on the conditional tags

  1. Created sensitive presentation using the standard layout and content generated without any conditional builds.
  2. Duplicated sensitive put in page and gave him the content of 'general' then it is generated using the conditional, "General" version If the finished publication published content has shown that the 'general' subject, as expected.
  3. I then repeated the same process for the specific content and content using the version parole, generated 'specific '. When over content published showed that the subject marked as 'specific' as expected.

  Added an Index page to the table of contents

  1. Created a new topic to serve as the launch page.
  2. Added a 'general' hyperlink called for the launch of the general "theme found in the general publishes from the resource manager.
  3. Added a hyperlink called 'specific' to the launch of the general "theme found in the specific issues from the resource manager.
  4. I then republish the sensitive standard layout site.

  From this point, it gets stuck and won't open properly published Web sites. I don't know why it won't launch hyperlinks correctly. Is there something I'm missing? Let me know if you do not want to see my files. I will be gladly their.

  OK, thanks a lot for the capture screen. They help more than you realize.

  So here's one of the biggest mistakes I think that you have done so far. You use the resource manager to link to published results. If it is technically possible to do, I'm pretty sure Adobe never planned for it to be used this way.

  It may help to think in terms of creation of food products. I have long considered as RoboHelp to be very much like working in my kitchen. All consumables (heading text in the headings, images, HTML pages, etc.) are just as raw ingredients. (Eggs, milk, flour, etc.). The places of storage (hard drive) it's like the pantry and the fridge. And RoboHelp provides facilities to easily combine ingredients to create the different recipes.

  This next bit will be somewhat exaggerated, but bear with me. Maybe you have one or more neighbors and all you want to share some common "ingredients". If you set the things where each of you have access to a wine cellar and a shared refrigerator. Maybe you do a Dutch sauce killer. You create it and place in the refrigerator, then your other participants have access through the common "fridge". This is exactly what the resource manager is intended to help.

  Now assume that you create something like cookies chocolate chip and you keep in the refrigerator. Well, that's fine, but you don't want to use cookies to chocolate chip already baked in a recipe that might call for cookie dough. But that's what happens when you take an exit and place in a place intended for raw ingredients. And you will see the strange behavior. Prepare for these cookies chemically changes them so that cookies already are significantly different from the dough used to create them. Similarly, you don't want to take one or more output files and reuse in a project source.

  So in your case, you run an index file and that fires events to produce the output. All should be well. But when you click on the links to open topics, topics are intended to show up more in the right panel. Think of the picture of how works of image on a TV. The moment that link you to something intended to fill the screen, he is forced into this smaller area on the right. If you end up with what you see in the last picture.

  I suggest the following steps.

  First, REMOVE your resource manager exits.

  REMOVE all links that can point here.

  Output records where people will consume copy your projects. (The web server)

  Then figure either the parent (.. /.. / somefolder/somefile.htm) path to other systems or the absolute path (http://www.whatever.com) and to link the projects in this way.

  Sorry, but without seeing the installation of first hand, it is difficult to say what should be these paths.

  I hope this was helpful... Rick

• I need help with RoboHelp 10 conditional compilation tag option

  I need assistance with the option of conditional compilation tag. I want to apply CBT to the contents of a field. I looked at the help topics and believes that I applied the function correctly. However, it does not work as you wish. In the 2nd sentence below, I want the text highlighted in blue to appear only to the printed output and printed in purple text to appear only to the .htm / output online. Help, please.

  There are common tasks for managing files and folders in the browser

  in the grid of BBS files viewer. For more information on these common tasks see help

  and support in the successful business. click on the links below.

  Hello

  With the help of marking is a two part process.

  First part

  You create and apply tags for the information you want to order.

  Second part

  You create a create an Expression that is used when you generate your output. The Expression of build usually reads something like: NO Tag1 (or whatever the name of your tag)

  Then when generate you and use the Expression to build, the information containing the tag is not included in the build.

  See you soon... Rick

• Build Tags lost converting WinHelp to HTML format

  Hi all
  
  I convert my WinHelp to HTML (.chm) help system, using RoboHelp X 5, WIN XP Pro, and Word 2003. I tried the conversion in several ways (.hpj import, importation of .hlp, import doc files) but all the tags of conditional compilation of WinHelp with each method, I tried to lose.
  
  Import WinHelp .hpj file seems the best overall approach because it preserves the ID card, table of contents, index, etc, but I don't understand why it does not preserve the coditional tags. Or am I missing some setting?
  
  I hope that someone has experienced this problem and has a solution. I don't want to spend weeks reverting build tags!
  
  Thanks for any help!
  
  
  
  

  Hi djm_writer. Peter is spot on. This is a known issue. So far no hotfix has been applied to it. I ran a test to see if Peter's suggestion would work, but in this case, the references are not held.

• Is there a limit to the conditional compilation tags?

  I have difficulties in WebHelp edition (which is our preferred choice). The project is huge anyway, with subjects from 1580, so it's a bear to manage. To add to the workload, I have three conditional compilation tags created. For now, each topic (minus five) assigned to one and only one of the conditional tags I build. So there's a lot of conditional in the equation.
  
  When I publish the complete help on my office file, it works fine (although I think more slowly as before, I've added the tags). When I assign a SSL so that only two tags conditional build is included, the publication fails. RoboHelp gets hung up, and I have to close it by the Task Manager. The output is never completed.
  
  In any case, I can't publish the help file on a server. Even if I publish the SSL without conditions applied, RoboHelp is hindering again. I can always publish to desktop and upload it to my server.
  
  So, is there an upper limit for the number of subjects who may have applied conditional construction? I couldn't find a limit in the documentation.
  
  Kevin

  No limit that I definitely know the numbers you're talking about are not a problem.

  If you can publish to a local drive, then the conditions aren't the issue.

  Are you clear on the difference between the production and publication?

  Also in your second paragraph you say that you can publish on your desktop. In your third paragraph, you say that you can not publish for SSL. Which should also be on your local disk, so at odds with the two things.

  Where is your project stored?

• Which file in RoboHelp 11 is used to store settings for conditional compilation tags

  We share a RoboHelp 11 project between two authors and have noticed that the conditional compilation tags defined by an author are not detected by the second author that accesses this project through version control. I think that the file containing the details of the tags conditional build has not been added to version control, and thus the second author cannot see these details. Does anyone know what this file is called, so I can add it to version control?

  Thank you very much.

  The PSS file gets overwritten if you put it in the source code control, you will get very strange results. You can copy the PSS file between computers, so I would go that route.

  Also have the other author define the same expressions in the preview. Once you have done that, the project will remember them.