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August 19, 2010
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Conditional build tags & drop-down hot spots

  • August 19, 2010
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I am running RH8

8.02.208

I want to add conditional build tags to selected text that is accessed by clicking a drop-down text link.  When I select the text and apply the tag, the pop-up window closes (without adding the tag) and the drop-down text link has the tag.  The problem is, I don't want the link to have the tag, I only want some of the text in the drop down to be tagged.  I generated the project just to see what the result would be, and the entire d-d link was missing, as I expected.

Has anyone added tags to text in drop downs?  What are the steps?

Thanks

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Peter Grainge
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August 20, 2010

Select the text in the dropdown, right click and apply the tag. Works that way.


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Participant
August 20, 2010

Peter,

Thanks for replying. Just to be sure I understand what you are suggesting:  go to the text in the drop-down, highlight it, and then apply the tag by right mouse clicking.  If this is correct, then this solution does not work, regardless of whether I apply the tag via right clicking the mouse, or using the Apply Condition Build Tag command on the Format menu.  When I apply the tag to the selected, the window closes, and thetag is aplied to the drop-down text link, not to the text in the drop down.  If this process is supposed to work as easily as you describe, and as easily at it did in RH5, then the issue is obviously on my end and not on RH8.

Peter Grainge
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 20, 2010

Create a new project or use one of the samples just to test.

You will find the samples at

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe RoboHelp 8\RoboHTML\Samples\en_US

or

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2\Adobe RoboHelp 8\RoboHTML\Samples\en_US

Also try running Tools > Update DHTML


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