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I tried to generate a pdf from a big project. In some topics, the table spacings were completely off, which meant that columns with very little text were very wide while columns with a lot of text were very narrow (and as a result very long because of all the wrapping text).I have pinpointed the problem to another topic that uses a <style> section in its HTML, to override the global CSS for just that topic. That topic contains several very wide tables with many columns, and to align all of these up nicely I have defined widths for all different column numbers in a specific table style. The table style itself is global, but I'm adding widths for this one topic only. But now it seems to affect other topics as well. As far as I know, this shouldn't be the case, but maybe I'm doing something wrong? The widths are not defined in the global CSS, does/should that give an inline style block the right to define it for the rest of the project?The first thing I noticed is that RH makes the

Is there a tutorial for RH 2020?  It appears very different from RH 8 and I'm not seeing my tags that were used from my FrameMaker document. They worked fine in RH 8.  Where are the tags located? When I selected Styles, nothing appeared.

We have a RH 2020 project. Most of the content is topics that were created in Framemaker, imported to RH Classic. The imported content contained map IDs that now show up as bookmarks. If I try to show a report of map IDs there are none. If I export a map file it is empty. Is there any way to use our existing map IDs in our new RH 2020 help project? Can I import the map file from the classic RH project to the RH 2020 project?  Thank you very much for your help.

Hi all, I am using the skin- Oceanic, for my Online Help output. On the right, there is a Print icon in the mini TOC. I chose a topic that has both images and text and clicked the Print icon. Upon clicking, it displays the print preview as shown below:  The preview did not pick the font I used in the output nor the images in the topic. Is this the default behaviour of the print function? I would also like to know whether we can print the subtopics of a particular topic. Eg: The TOC is as follows:Topic 1    Topic 2     Topic 3. If I open Topic 1 and click Print, will RH allow me to print Topic 1, Topic 2 and Topic 3? Or is the default behaviour of the Print is to print only Topic 1? Can anyone please help me with this?

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Hi, I have installed Update 6 on RH 2020 and after that I am facing some problems with Word import. My headlines doesn't get the css class but it creates the class an put it in the css-file properly. It seems like the function "Import Style" impot the style but doesn't use it correctly. Any ideas? Thanks

Hi,To achieve the desired levels of TOC hierarchy in the PDF output, I  added two headings, that has different heading style, in a topic.  The 1st heading (in green) must be displayed only in Online Output. It is displayed in green because it is conditionalised. The 2nd Heading must be displayed only in PDF output. When I produced the output, this is how it is displayed in the TOC.  Since the heading of Online output is conditionalised, it is hidden but the leeds and the page number is displayed. I would like to know whether this (display of leeds for a hidden heading) is the expected behavior or is there a way to hide it in TOC too? Is there any other method to hide the one of the headings in a topic?

HiI am using RoboHelp 2020 and have an issue with applying a conditional tag (Seagull) to a Section in the TOC. The aim is for this particular section not to be included in the online output or any printed documents. The output is Responsive HTML.I  created a condition tag (Seagull) and applied it to the desired section through the Properties > Condition tags > Apply tags.I then added the tag to  Condition Expressions, using the expression; Exclude : When Audience is : Seagull and then saved.However, on generating the output, the TOC still contains the section that I need excluding... What am I doing wrong?Many thanks

After changing the topic status from within the opened topic, I see a different topic status for some of the topics, depending on where I look.New status shown correctly:Right click and then select topic propertiesOpen topic and go to topic propertiesHead section of the topicOld status shown  here:Topic properties reportTopic listcolor displayed in "contents/assets":I defined two extra topic statuses of my own in my topic properties, I chose custom colors for those as well.This is crucial because I use topic statuses to filter my output. What's not finished doesn't go in.I have run out of ideas where to look. Am I doing something wrong?What am I missing? Using Robohelp 2020.5.71

Hi,I am using the new interface (not classic) for Robohelp 2019. After generating an html5 output, there is an extra empty cell at the end of the table. I couldn't find any clues in the code. Does anyone know why this is happening? Please see this URL: https://tesira-webhelp.biamp.com/#t=ForteX_Supported_Platforms.htm. Below is a screenshot of how it looks in Robohelp: Thank you, Julianna

Trying to develop an MS Word doc template (docx or dotx) with a basic numbered list for SMEs to provide content - which I can then import into RoboHelp 2020.5 and edit. I'm running into issues getting the numbered list in Word to import correctly (assign to a numbered list style in my RoboHelp CSS). To be clear, the Word doc file imports. It's just that the resulting numbered list in my RoboHelp topic isn't using my desired list style in my CSS.  My list style is incredibly basic - one level, 1, 2, 3, etc. No multilevel numbering needed. Can someone show me the following:MS Word settings/config for a numbered list.RoboHelp settings/config for a numbered list CSS style.RoboHelp import settings/config to import and auto-assign the Word numbered list to the RoboHelp CSS numbered list style. Thank you! 

Hello fellow RoboHelp users: I am the primary technical writer on a large defense financial software project. I just uploaded the latest iteration of RoboHelp (2020). I am the only license holder and I need to figure out a method for sharing RoboHelp files with my team of developers and testers. Do you have any suggestions on how I can do this? I did convert our five projects into MS Word files; however, I don't think reviewing Word files (from a development or test perspective) is the best way to go. Appreciate any help! Thanks! 

Hi there, I can't find Ukrainian in the list of candidate languages for translation. Can someone advise me on what would be my best option then? I can only think of creating a new Rh project for that language and using the html files for the translation (as we did before Rh 2020 actually)...  Any better idea? Thank you. 

We just recently upgraded from RH 2017 to RH 2020. Our production process requires us to create drafts of specific topics from the Help system as MS Word documents. In RH 2017, the generation dialog box for Word drafts had a page that allowed us to select specfic topics to include in the document. I don't see anything like that in Word preset interface in RH 2020. It appears that if you want to generate a Word draft you have to do it for the entire Help system, which we don't want to do. I know the Review tab in RH 2020 allows you to select topics, but those review drafts can only be used by coworkers that have RH 2020, which won't work for us. Our Word draft go to people who don't have access to RH. So how do we generate a Word draft of specific topics using RH 2020? Thanks

I have a question. I am looking at this article: https://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/rh_tour/rh2020/outputs/calling_csh_help.htm.The Responsive HTML5 output of the Online Help is currently working perfectly for us. Now that we are moving to RH2020 and the new Frameless Output, I understand there will be minor updates in the help call per the above article. I will be sharing the above URL with my server development team to apprise them of the change.Rudimentary question, I am not very technical sorry, but would just excluding the #t= part from the Responsive HTML5 URL work?

I am using Rh2020.6.76 version.  I have been using nested numbering for my technical documentation since January, 2021 without any issues.  That changed with the Version 6 update. I have 2 issues with list styles described below. 1st ISSUE: Today, I needed to create a new nested numbering scheme.  I duplicated the ol in my css to start manipulating the levels.  What I have found is this:the style when changed to 'decimal' will revert back to 'none' after I hit tabthe numbering I try to begin with (example: 5.<x>), does not stay in the 'Format' box and will cause the <x> to become inactive.the <x> will remain but you cannot edit it  2nd ISSUE: As long as I do not edit my existing nested numbering styles, they continue to work properly until I go beyond Level 4. The issues begin with level 5.At Level 5, my numbering should appear as 5.2.1.1 (as shown in this image) but it appears as 5.2.2.1 which is incorrect. Any suggestions?

Hi, Is it possible to have an alias on a css class so that Robohelp shows the alias instead of the class name in the GUI for style selcting?  I know others application has this feature with reserved comments on the css class but i haven't found it in rh.

Hi,I am generating a printed/word output of a frameless online help developed in RH 2020. I am supplying a proper word template and RH is accepting it without errors.However, when I generate an output the margins are not showing up equal. The left pages are showing to extreme left and right pages to the extreme right. Also the footer is not showing up at all.Any idea what is missing?

Merging child .chm in RH2020 doesn't work. My procedure is attached. The same procedure worked fine with RH2019 Classic. (I can not use RH2019 because there is another problem.)Please tell me the procedure for RH2020. Regards,  AVEVA Software / T. Kitagawa 

I just upgraded to RH 2020 and I'm still getting the hang of this new layout. In previous versions we could open the TOC panel and the Project Manager panel at the same time, which allowed for dragging and dropping topics from the Project Manager list directly into the TOC. So far I can't figure out how to replicate this behavior in RH 2020.  Is it possible to view the Contents panel and the Table of Contents panel at the same time as in previous versions? If not, does anyone have a workaround or suggestion for how I could improve my workflow based on what I'm trying to do here? I'd just rather not have to go through the steps of manually clicking the + sign and searching for a topic to add to the TOC every single time.

The drop down list images in the project do not appear in the pdf output when I use the "Print" condition tag. But the images appear if I use the "Online" condition tag.  For eg: <p>The <a class="dropspot" data-condition="Others:Online" data-rhwidget="DropSpot" data-target="POPUP467191772" href="#">Sign In</a></span><span data-condition="Others:Print">Sign In</span> page appears. </p><div data-targetname="POPUP467191772"><p class="img"><img alt="" src="assets/images/Authentication_Sign_in.png" /></p></div>I need online and print condition tags because I want HTML and PDF outputs I use RoboHelp version 2020.6.76 and Adobe Reader Touch version 3.1. Does anyone have s solution to this problem or why is it happening?   

I have a dream of creating a dropdown by using a custom button and some Javascript. But first i need help getting a custom button to talk to my javascript code. Ive started with this simple code in the hope that if i can get this to work then i can make any button i wish. <button onclick="myFunction()">Click me</button><p id="demo"></p><script>function myFunction() {document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "Hello World";}</script> Ive tried everything can cannot get it to fire whilst using a custom button in the skins tab in robohelp2020. I could use some help. Thanks!

Hello there, hope you're all ok! I'm asking for your help regarding a pretty simple scenario. I searched in the forum but couldn't find any answer. I'm currently writing the user manual of software that, of course, gets updated on a regular bases and new features are added an so forth. So, starting from a "base" manual version, I should produce different versions of it with all necessary modifications for each software version (adding new stuff, basically, as the software gets refined). I tried the dynamic content filter but it's not suitable for my case. How can I manage something like this? Do I have to manually duplicate projects and publish them in different folder of the help site? In this case I'd have to set up a "global" home page to redirect users to the right sub-site, each one with its own toc, topics, etc.., right?(see attached file. I'd like to obtain a similar output) Is there any smarter way to manage all of this via RoboHelp? (I am using Ro

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I have added the following code to the header of the master page: <!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics --><script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-000000000-0" ></script><script>window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}gtag('js', new Date());gtag('config', 'UA-000000000-0');</script> where UA-000000000-0 is my Google Analytics Tracking ID. And Robohelp is giving me a parse error for the first line of the script saying invalid character s and underlining the s of the src. I tried adding it this way  <script src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-000000000-0" async ></script> (as I found a website that seemed to suggest that you add the async at the end) but then got Invalid character > underlining the > next to async.  I got this code from the Google Analytics website.