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Language labels are not applying in the output of my project

  • May 17, 2023
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As I am producing user documentation in two languages (Spanish and English) I have the following project structure: a master project, without content, that links to a project in English and another project in Spanish.

In the master project, I am using English language because I want it to appear by default in the home page and from here the user can select the language.

What I need is that once the user has selected "spanish" in the home page, instead of "How can we help?" the spanish text appears (which is in output -> labels). But I have the impression that the language selected in the master project is the one used in the two child projects.

How do I get only "¿Cómo te puedo ayudar?" instead of "How can we help?" to appear in the Spanish project?

Thanks in advance!

 

 

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    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    May 18, 2023

    You haven't said which version of RoboHelp you are using. Please always start a thread with this information. As you have referred to a home page I am guessing it is one of the New UI versions.

     

    The child projects inherit a lot from the parent and I would expect that to be true of the labels. I would also expect problems with Search. Since the New UI was introduced, child projects generated as part of a merge no longer work independently, in the child project you would need a separate preset generating them to other than mergedProjects.

     

    I think what you need is a web page that has links to the two projects rather than a merged setup. I have never tried it but one idea that comes to mind is that you dispense with the home page and have a project that open a topic that has two external links, English and Spanish. They open the independent projects. As their outputs are separate they will have their own settings and labels.

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