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Anonymous
July 12, 2012
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Alternative output

  • July 12, 2012
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Hello Everybody,

I am just full of questions today. After receiving a lot of help on the Acrobat Forum, now it's RoboHelp.

I have several requests I do not know if are even possible to accomplish. First, I am using RoboHelp 8. What i was asked for: the online help shall be a webhelp as the application is web-based. But, aside from the usual web help, created with RoboHelp, I will need to create a 'smaller' help that will become pop-ups and tooltips. Basically, I would write the content in different short topics, but the output should look and act like a 'mouseover" popup, or tooltip. Is there any possibility to do that?

Thank you!

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    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    July 12, 2012

    HI there

    What you are describing is often known as "What's This" help. Basically, the user clicked a question mark on the dialog, then clicked the area of interest and up popped a text description of the area of interest in a tooltip.

    Unfortunately it fell out of favor a few years back so you don't see many applications that offer it. There used to be some that the Windows operating system offered. Can't find any at the moment to use as an example.

    RoboHelp does offer a What's This help tool. Click File > New > What's This Help Project to see it. I'm not sure how effective it is. I only know about its presence. I've never used it to create this type of help.

    Cheers... Rick

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    Anonymous
    July 16, 2012

    Hello Rick,

    Thanks for the fast reply.

    Yes, that would be one option for me, however the What;s This help composer scans the application you are creating the help for, and attaches a "topic" to each window or section in it, where you can add info. It's not quite working freely and adding the pop-ups where i would want.

    Another thing is, I thought perhaps I could make it look similar to the mouseover messages you get on any website if you hover over an image or a particular section. I would like this help to be as minimalistic as possible, and require as little 'action' from the user as possible - in the sense that they don't need to press or open anything.

    However, having only created chm and html help  (in already existing projects) in RoboHelp 8, I realized that I know very little about other functionalities, like creating screen tips or tooltips, or any other similar pop ups. I read through the help and forum topics, but I can't find a recipe for this kind of output.

    BR,

    Zita

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