RoboHelp 8: subjects of project of the child appears in the topic pane

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• Some CHMS children not displayed topic in the topic pane when TOC element is clicked on

  Very well. I don't know what is happening.

  We have a master project and various sub-CHMS which get merged into the table of contents of the master project. We have a fairly new HR subproject named "Toolbox Modules" which generates three additional sub CHMS which are also merged with the master. They appear at the end of the table of contents of the master project:

  < control the table of contents for help >

  < 10 other merged CHMS >

  toolkitmodules.chm

  toolkitmodules_blade.chm

  toolkitmodules_vwmp.chm

  All topics for the three modules CHMS tools exist in the project of the Toolbox Modules and have the symbol conditionally at the topic level build tags so that the right topics appear in their respective chm.

  I've compiled the three CHMS toolkit and then put them in the root directory master so that when the main help is generated, they get included correctly.

  At first glance, all three of these CHMS seem to work in the main table of contents well. I can expand and discover TOC for master help for subprojects very well, but clicking on a table of contents entry does not appear

  the themes of these two CHMS in the topic pane:

  toolkitmodules_blade.chm

  toolkitmodules_vwmp.chm

  

  I don't know why.

  If I double click on and open the individual CHMS of Windows and display their contents, the topics appear as expected in the CHMS. It's just at the point where merged, these last two CHMS do nothing on the side TOC. However, I checked the topics are indeed get merged, because I can use the "Search" tab to see the topics. In fact, the button on the toolbar of location even expands the good table of contents and highlights the corresponding entry. If something does everything not on the side of the table of contents.

  Any ideas?

  I am using HR 9.02.271

  Windows 7 64 bit

  Output of HtmlHelp (chm)

  Thank you!

  What the -? Looks like you're right Peter!

  Arrgg! And to think I spent probably a dozen hours test and play with this problem. Where is the wall? Time to start hitting head...

  I do not understand. How is it child CHMS with underscores in their names worked with salesbuilder? But not when I tried them in my main project.

  Well, note for later: EVER USE NOTES IN CHILD CHMS!

  Thanks Peter!

• Heading1 background image displayed in the topic pane, but not in the preview or output of WebHelp

  I configured my H1 style so that it has a gray background color and a background image that I've specified to display to the left and down with no recurrence. I also added a quantity of filling down so that my background image is forced to land. The effect I created looks like this:

  

  As you can see it looks good in the topic pane, but when I saw the topic or compile the project and view the output looks like this:

  

  Can anyone help?

  Thank you

  Jonathan

  Hello

  Background-attachment is the culprit, you also had two background images specified, so I deleted the redundant style:

  H1 {}

  do-family: Arial, without serif.

  font size: large;

  margin-bottom:-9pt;

  top of the margin: 6 pt.

  padding-top: 5px;

  padding-left: 5px;

  padding-right: 5px;

  padding-bottom: 16px;

  Color: #000000;

  make-weight: normal;

  make-style: normal;

  background: url (arrow.gif) non-repetition low left.

  background-color: buttonface;

  x-next-type: P;

  }

  Just replace the H1 with the code above, and you should be all ready to go.

  Take a bow

  Willam

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• How do I resize the height of the "to:" pane?

  I've recently updated to v12 and now has to scroll through a long list of "to:" addresses. Previously, I could grab the bottom of the topic pane and drag it down with the recipient pane, expanding both, to see all addresses at a time.

  Windows Vista Edition home premium
  Thunderbird V12

  You went completely to 12 worm. ? The current version is 24.6.

  Catching the bottom of the line object still works fine. Reboot with Add ons disabled and see if one is to play with you. You can do this in the HELP menu.

  Oh and install the latest version.

• Parent to see the table of contents in the project of the child

  Hello

  I will have difficulty to display the table of contents merged into the project of the child.  The application, I work with called via a URL.

  When I open one of the child htm files after generating locally, I see the contents of the Parent table.  But when I move the project to the server via FileZilla and display help via the application, the Parent html files is displayed the table of contents merged, but the child shows only the TOC of the child.

  I have read all the info on the site of Peter Grainge, but can't see what I can change to make it work.

  http://www.Grainge.org/pages/authoring/merging_webhelp/merging_method_original.htm http://www.Grainge.org/pages/Authoring/merging_webhelp/merged_help.htm

  In settings of WebHelp, Show merged TOC in the child project is enabled for the Parent.

  I tried to experiment with the different calls of URL described on the website of Peter, but if I use the suggested format (X:/helpfolder/startpage.htm#mergedprojects/child_project/target_topic_1.htm) I find myself with the two tables of contents showing.

  

  For any help or suggestion is appreciated!

  Note: Using RoboHelp 9 and generating WebHelp.

  Thank you

  Natalie

  It is a common mistake. Somewhere in your configuration, you claim the home page when you call the default theme. Maybe in your redirection?

  See www.grainge.org for creating tips and RoboHelp

  

  @petergrainge

• Search and index of all projects of the child seem incompatible.

  Hello

  I have created a new master of the project and added a child project using RoboHelp 9 HTML to create a file HTML from Microsoft.  When I opened the master chm file, I can view the index for the complete project (master and child) as well as to search through the entire project.    Then I added another project of the child (after you have created an index in children) and rebuilt my master.  When I discovered the new master chm file, the index does not include second child, although it does not include the first child, and the search does not search the second child.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Maybe the path for the second child is hardcoded? Hhp open it in Notepad and check what it says the MERGED FILES section. If you don't see a name of file, everything is good. If you see a path as well, which could explain why the search and index do not work.

  I'm not sure how you would get a path for a project and not for the other hard-coded, but it's possible I think.

  There was a recent suggestion that a fix for the hard-coded path is to ensure that the child chm exists in the main project before creating the fusion in the table of contents. If you don't want to keep the child within the main project, the only solution I know is a double compilation (compilation, open the HHP file and remove the path information in the FILES FUSIONNES section, then recompile) whenever you build a final version of the help.

  HTH

  Amber

• RoboHelp 2015 (12.0.2.384): The search returns topics do not are included in the table of contents

  ENVIRONMENT: Windows 7 Enterprise SP1, 8.00 GB of RAM, 64 - bit OS, Office 2010, Adobe Acrobat X Pro, Acrobat Reader DC 2015.017.20050

  DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT:

  • A single RoboHelp HTML project with three exits. One of the outputs is a 'validation' reference that has its own Table of contents.
  • Validation reference Table of contents contains a subset of the subjects in the main help system. For example, the help system main table of contents contains a folder named 'Administration '. This folder is not in the table of contents of reference for Validation.
  • The reference of Validation is displayed on a public web site. Therefore, we applied the tag "Non_public_info" contained in the topics shared that we do not want to appear on the public website.
  • WebHelp parameters are:
    • Validation reference TOC
    • No map file, no sequence to browse
    • Conditional compilation expression: NOT_Non_public_info_AND_NOT_StyleGuidelines_AND_NOT_TRP (we keep our Style rules in the project to facilitate access during development. TRP content must be rejected because it was not released.)
    • Exclude non referenced topics of output is selected.
    • Search options. Only 'Show Total number of search results' and 'View AND search Option in outputs' are selected.
  • After generating the WebHelp, we remove the files that we don't want (RoboHelp generates empty folders, even if the files are not in the table of contents.)

  PROBLEM: A search in the help of Validation reference reveals the topics that we think should not be included because the subjects themselves are not in the table of contents of Validation reference. For example, the section "Data quality analysis" is in the main table of contents help, but not in the table of contents of reference for Validation. Therefore, we do not expect the topic appears in the search results pane at all. But he does. When the user clicks on the subject, the "Resource not found" message appears.

  Nothing shows the topic Style_Guidelines because the StyleGuidelines label conditional construction applies to the entire folder and the "Style guidelines" book in the main table of contents. (Same thing for the TRP folder).

  QUESTION: Why are topics which are not in the table of contents and whose records are not in the project at all appearing in the WebHelp during a search? We need to rewrite the expression of conditional compilation or establish conditions differently. We assume not have topics in the table of contents, not including the topics not referenced in the output, and remove empty folders would be the way to go. Any help is welcome!

  Thank you very much.

  Carol Levie

  The table of contents does not control what ends up in the output for output online. All content tagged and tagged content which is not excluded by the expression of construction will be included. The parameter 'Exclude topics not referenced output' more exclude all subjects which are not in the table of contents AND are not related to any topic which is included in the output.

  On the other hand, for the print output the table of contents control which is found in the output. I think that it will fire a lot of people.

  If you generate the help and that you do not remove the unwanted files, do you still have the error? If this isn't the case, you know that the topic is referenced somewhere in the content of the reference of the Validation.

  Here is the help of RH11. I can't imagine it would have changed, but you could do a search to verify a second time for RH2015.

  Exclude output not referenced topics

  Select this option to exclude any topic that exists in the project, but is not the default theme in page layout or is not referenced table of selected contents, index or sequence to browse, or any referenced subject.

  Note: RoboHelp shows the topics not referenced that are excluded from the output in the output view module.

• Restoration of the subjects already published to the Publisher

  Hi all

  Back, and I have another question regarding the subjects and management between the project manager and the table of contents of the file...

  As you may or not remember, I was brought aboard an organization to help streamline and develop consistency in the help files for a number of products they manufacture.  The products, well that very similar in appearance and function, have the user interface elements unique and certain functions are specific to a particular product.  Thus, to facilitate the explanation, assume that the product is available under Windows, OS x, iOS and Android.  I have now accordingly organized project files:

  Windows product (folder)

  Topic 1

  Heading 2

  Heading 3

  OSX product (folder)

  Topic 1

  Heading 2

  Heading 3

  etc...

  My problem started with a presumed understanding that:

  1. the project manager Pod will show me all the files associated with my project, whether or not they are published...

  2. the table of contents are a list of all files that are published in the order that they are presented.

  Assuming this is correct, I went ahead and a copy (or so I thought) the topic files I was looking at the table of contents for a product area to another area of product (Windows to OS x for example).  After doing this and the editing screen captures and text to the new OS Help files, I realized that I had not copied, but moved the files.  So now the themes for Windows were crushed with the contents of the Mac.

  I have not published yet internally for the team of the magazine or on the website of the company, if prior theme for Windows files are always available somewhere.

  My question is: what is the best way to restore Windows versions theme files while also maintaining the Mac edition of HR 2015 versions?

  There were only a dozen pages, so it was easier to edit topics manually one by one.

  The best information I've learned from this experience is that what content was updated, never go by TOC file references because they do not meet their parent folders - always make changes/updates of the project files pod!

  Small suggestion to developers of Adobe which extinguished Robohelp:

  1. learn the concept of intuitive design and apply!

  2. never release a new product without the files/documents in support!

  It is absolutely amazing to me that together Robohelp 2015, they were unable to produce any content for... I don't know, maybe a resource of help file explaining what each component and best practices for the use...

  After all, is not first of all as one of the basic features of Robohelp?

  For William, thanks for the link to "Oct 2004 - ban witchcraft."  With all respect, referring to a person using HR 2015 in an article that is more than ten years that speaks to an iteration of HR which is more than five iterations obsolete legacy, and a 3rd party paid solution seems to be not much of a reference to everything... the problem, it is the lack of native support for doing something as simple as duplication of a project.  I don't have to go in my operating system for it - the PRODUCT must have this feature.  Is that small audience where Adobe decided to Polish a piece about and call it 'new' and the target demographic just accept this?

  If RH was a really useful solution for Tech writers, it should be addressed long time... but then again, I should have known better than to expect that Adobe.

• Would it be possible to have 2 shared resources, a local containing all common topics and photos for several projects and another a remote control containing all the topics and pictures for the purpose of collaboration

  Hello

  I was wondering, now that I discovered the benefits of eating of the resource, if it would be possible to have 2 shared resources, a local with common themes and images for several projects and another one, remote, containing projects together, i.e. the subjects and images, for collaboration purposes.

  The only local, I intend to use it for my purposes to have common points (topics & photos) update of all projects where they appear and the distance that I intend to use it with remote colleagues, who might want to make changes in the topics.

  This would mean that the topics and current photos will be present in the resources, one local as one remote.

  Thank you.

  SVN is not a source control package?

  I'm not sure, but RoboHelp * MAY * be able to integrate with SVN to control projects and sharing.

  RoboHelp comes with RoboSource Control that could be used to provide the source code control. But if you already have a package in place, my thought is why reinvent the wheel? Simply use what is there.

  See you soon... Rick

• RoboHelp HTML v5 Crash when I try to open the topic

  I did a minor change on a small subject in an existing project. RoboHelp crashed before I could save. I have finished the task and reloaded the project in human resources and received this msg:
  
  The reference to the file "C:\help projects\UW\IDI UW\Chap 15\file:\C man.css" to the folder "'C:\help projects\UW\IDI UW\Chap 15\syndrome.htm' contains illegal characters and do not appear in the project manager.
  
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  I was able to change something else, save and regenerate. However, now HR block any topic trying to change. The last time I worked on this project was 11/07, and everything went well then.
  
  It's late Sunday night. I'm puzzled. Big question for a Monday morning. Any ideas?
  

  I decided to try the oldest trick in the book and restart the computer. That solved the problem! Duh!

  However, I need to modify the indexes on the project and HR crashes when I try to open the index Designer. I have not tried to restart. I'll open another topic on this one. I found many problems with HR crashes, and maybe that will help someone else, when we have a resolution.

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  The help topic "create a PDF for review" says:

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  I wish I could reorganize the topics so I could generate PDFS by using the create a PDF file for the review option, because the appearance resulting better matches the original, any HTML from the PDF produced by the flow of printed Documentation.

  See you soon!

  Charly in SJ

  Click the icon from A to Z in the project manager. You can reorder only in a single view.

  See www.grainge.org for creating tips and RoboHelp

  @petergrainge

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  Hello

  I hope that this question will not be too much of an annoyance. I try to have the navigation pane to show automatically when the subject reference users by their specific URL. Instead of having the link display in the upper left corner, he'S trying to automatically have the show in navigation pane. In addition, it would be sufficient if the user clicks on an item in the navigation pane the webhelp will only display two aspects of navigation. I can't use the aternating? # and? # because I don't know how users will click on the links. I think writign a javascript that checks t Hosea if navigation is in place or not and if not, see navigation.

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  Take a bow

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  The project is big enough and was damaged. I was wondering if there is a utility, or to perform operations that would allow me to set the project and be able to work again!

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• Subjects are not in the list of topics

  I imported several topics in RoboHelp and they checked in to source code control. Then, after trying to change the color of a conditional compilation tag, RoboHelp crashed. Now I have the themes in the project file, source control and file root.fpj, but they do not appear in the list of RoboHelp topics.
  
  Any help would be appreciated.
  
  I use RoboHelp 6.
  
  Thank you
  Dan

  I deleted the .cpd file and that solved the problem.