Questions

After years of using RoboHelp 8, I find that all of a sudden I cannot do the following in existing projects:If I select New>Topic then instead of a new, blank topic page being generated, the 'bell' sounds and nothing happens.If I right click on a topic in the Project Manager and select 'Properties', again the 'bell' sounds and the Properties dialogue does not show.In both cases, hitting the Escape key 'gets me out' of these conditions.As an aside, when I start Robohelp I get a message from UAC saying that the Internet Explorer Add-On Installer is trying to run. Given that I have NOT requested automatic updates I decline. This has been going on for a few weeks, and other than the annoyance of getting this, Robohelp continues to work after cancelling the update.Oddly, today there was a similar message about installing a Flash Plug-in (I think - I've only seen the message once). Again I declined as in both cases I'm worried that installing either of these will mess up Robohelp as Roboh

My state of information:a) RCHL cannot process .jsx scripts from the commandline.b) RoboHTML cannot export like RCHL from .jsx scriptsBut I need to process a .jsx script before I can export to CHM or whatever else format.Why I cannot e.g. export via an .jsx from RoboHTML like RCHL is doing?

I've searched the forums but didn't find anything on this. I'm running RoboHelp 11. I was looking into using a Responsive HTML5 layout instead of my current WebHelp layout. I like how the desktop version looks when I choose Theme3_Black and edit:However, when I compile and preview, I see only the tablet version:Any idea why the desktop version isn't displaying? It does it within RoboHelp and when I choose to preview in a browser.

Running RoboHelp 10.0.1.292. Creating a Desktop layout.Using the Screen Layout Editor, I set the "Overflow" attribute to "Scroll" for the Topic content and the Tabbed content. When I generate and review in either Chrome or IE10, the horizontal bar is working. The vertical bar, which is visible, does not have a "scroll thumb" in the track.Thanks - Dan

When generating the WebHelp file folder contents isn't structured. I made the topics in structure inside a folder. But i cant do that for images,styles, whdata, whgdata and whxdata folder. How can i put inside a folder in a structured manner. If i changes these manually then nothing works. Please help me on this. When i looked into project manager i can see images, stylesheets etc. But i cant move these things to a folder and no contents appear inside these.Basically i need  a structure like thisContent  -- topic 1  -- topic 2Data  -- whdata  -- whxdata  -- whgdata  -- css  -- imagesThanks for helping

Hi,I'm using Zoom search with my documentation and when viewing the docs using Firefox, Firefox hangs (forever) until I stop it when I click on a search result.  I do not have this problem in IE or Chrome.  All search result links work and display correctly on IE or Chrome.I ran the debugger thing on Firefox and saw this error message in whproxy.js file:Error: Permission denied to access property "whname" line 10 column 8 which is if (typeof (wCurrent.parent.whname) == "string" && "wh_stub" == wCurrent.parent.whname)This is repeatable.  In fact, I have a link on my search page (created outside RH, but added after documentation is generated) to a "search tips" which links to a file within the project and that does the same thing - same hang and same error.  I can access this "search tips" file while viewing in IE and Chrome.I followed Peter's tips on Zoom Search and use the process where I run zoom on output files as my start directory and put the results in

I imported a FM file to my RH project and about half way through the file, the content is marked with blue lines (as it appears when you apply conditional text). When I place my cursor on the text, the following text appears, "Condition [FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_ADDED]" The FM imported has no track changes and the file was created in FrameMaker 12. Has anybody seen this before? Seems like a condition has been applied and why does it say "FM8"? How can I get rid of this condition?

Hello all,I want to upgrade to the latest version of RH and find myself a little confused about RH 2015.  Is that an upgrade from RH 11 or something separate only for users who need to publish to mobile devices? Thanks for your help.Diane

I'm working on a Help file for a product, and I've got lots of images of the UI.I'd like to see them automatically resize down when the person viewing the topic does so on a non-desktop platform. As it is, the images just stick off the side, forcing users to scroll right to see the whole thing.

I'm exporting to Multiscreen HTML 5 using Robohelp, and uploading the files to sharepoint.I'm finding that when I create a link to a heading level when it is in the Internet Browser, that when the link is opened it is at the height of the location of the TOC entry (even if at the llast topic on the TOC) and not at the top of the page. It doesn't seem to do it for non-sharepoint output that I view.Can anyone assist?Can it be altered to display at the top of the screen? Assume it is a bookmark to the TOC entry, but I need it to display the top of the screen.Can anyone assist?ThanksSimone

Taking a moment to recognize Willam van Weelden‌ for all he does to help us out with prickly CSS and HTML 5 issues. A little birdie tells me that today is his birthday!Happy Birthday Willam!

My company has a need to generate our RH projects into native apps for both Android and iOS. Does anyone know if Adobe plans to support iOS anytime soon?

I am using RH10 and have the latest patches applied. On one project I am getting a script error message that is displayed when I try to view any topic from the WYSIWYG editor. If I create a new topic within the project I still get the message.I don't get the message when I try from another project.It looks like there is a problem with ehlpdhtm.js   ???Any thoughts or ideas as to what to do to try and resolve this?.

Hi,when i print documentation, robohelp generates a table of content with two empty lines. I get this strange issue when i print documentation with index or glossary are selected.How can avoid this issue ?Best Regards

I've imported a .bk file in Robohelp and customized my style sheet where I've created a Font Set. However, I have to manually update each paragraph and apply the font set to see the change. I thought RoboHelp will automatically apply the changes to the topic. Am I doing something wrong? Need help.Thanks.

Hi,when i insert the field “chapter name” in a master page, in the printed documentation appears error message instead of my chapter name:Error: To apply heading 1 to the test to be displayed at this point, use the record card homeDoes anybody know why? And how to avoid this error ?Best Regards.

We had an employee who used to work on creating our product's help manual using Robohelp 7. Unfortunately she quit and her laptop was reset, so we lost the Robohelp project. What we have is the final output with all the HTML files. Is there a way to take these HTML files and load them into Robohelp so that we can start adding more topics to our help manual?I have a folder called "WebHelp" and these folders inside. Please let me know if I can take this project and load it into Robohelp 11 that we are planning on upgrading to.

Hi, I want my left TOC frame to appear wider than the default.  I am creating my project as WebHelp and don't see where I can make this change.Thanks!

When using linked word files, the html output always creates new styles and does not consider my .CSS file. All html styles use a preceding "WD_" string and all headings are not imported as <h1>..<h9>. Of course I set the "File | Project settings | Import" settings.When I do not link but import the word file, the html output is different.

iPad help output's index page is not showing a .jpg of our company's logo. I looked at output files in the... \!SSL!\Multiscreen_HTML5\ipad folder.I see an index_rh.htm file there which doesn't have the .jpg. There is an index_rh1.htm file there that does. Can I safely delete the index_rh.htm file?

I am using TCS to create a WebHelp project from a FrameMaker book. Ultimately I will convert the WebHelp to a CHM file for integration with an application. Generating a CHM file that way allows me to control the HTML Help window position.From RH I linked to the FM.book file. RH converted the files in the book, but when I generated the WebHelp, it contained just one topic from one file in the book.Thanks in advance for your help!

HiI am publishing FM12 as the responsive output and viewing it in Chrome browser. The indented lists and other text are not indented here. I imported the FM book to RH11 and tested using the same screen layout and ISF file. Here the output looks fine.Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround?Sreekanth

In RoboHelp 11 can  you point the External Search at an existing index from another application?  i.e. SharePoint or a Content Management/version control tool?  The project I'm working on has other supporting doc's that I don't want to have to link to, but instead include them in search.  I'll have them listed in an appendix but I don't want the users to have to dig through a ton of doc's to find what they're looking for.  I'm hoping I can present this project and if the user searches for a function that isn't listed, that we can pull the information from an existing document.Thanks for your help!Jeff

I do not see an option for URLs to display in Search Results. This is the behavior our users are asking for:  If a URL (I've got the link in a topic) would display in the search results, the user could then click on the link to take them to that external site. There is no option to display URLs in search results in the WebHelp or HTML5 publishing options. My users don't want to have to click a link to take them to an html topic and then have to click again on the URL to get to the external site. They want to be able to see the URL in the search results, click and go immediately to the site. I even turned on external site searching but didn't see anything in the results. Perhaps I'm not doing it right. This has never been an issue before on any other project that I've developed. Is there anything I can do to give them what they want?Deb

Gostaria de saber quais as diferenças que a versão 11 do robohelp tem referente ao 10 e quais as vantagens dessa nova versão.