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forhpm
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February 12, 2014
Question

Homepage.htm file for phone not being published in HTML 5 output

  • February 12, 2014
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I've published my two layouts, Phone and Tablet, to a folder called /help. When I link to /help/index.htm, that index file is supposed to "sniff" to determine which layout to present. From the tablet, i get /help/android_tab/homepage.htm which is the first page of my project. From the phone, I get /help/android_phone/Android/welcome_to_android.htm, which is my Default Topic, and already three pages in from what homepage.htm should show. From what I've read and understand here, the /help/index.htm file should feed through to /help/android_phone/homepage.htm. When I look at the folders, android_phone has no homepage.htm file in it. So two questions:

1. Where is the /android_phone/homepage.htm file?

2. How does it end up at the Default Topic if it should be going through the /help/index.htm? If the homepage.htm file is not there, it should give a Page Not Found error, not actually end up on a page.

Thanks in advance,

Helen

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Rsfl
Rsfl
Inspiring
February 13, 2014

Maybe it helps to delete the existing Android phone screen layout and create a new one. When I look at my Android phone layout a homepage.htm file is present and also seems to work properly.

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forhpmAuthor
Participant
February 19, 2014

Thanks for the suggestion R_Sem, but this didn't work. I still don't get the android_phone/homepage.htm, instead I'm redirected to the Start Page. Why is it generating and publishing with the correct homepage in the android_tab folder and not in the android_phone folder? Would it work instead to make 2 Multiscreen HTML5 SSLayouts, one for the phone and one for the tab? Hmm, think I'll try that one and report back.

Any other suggestions would be welcomed.

Thanks,

Helen

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 19, 2014

If you do that, the sniffer page will not be able to detect the separate page. You could try generating the one that is not working and then replace it with this new output if that does fix the problem. I cannot see how it will though.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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