Learning RH7 After Upgrade from RH6

Question

I am trying to learn the new features of RH7 by reading the
Reviewer's Guide for "Adobe RoboHelp 7 Spectabular New
Author-Friendly Features" and am finding the "instructions"
confusing and inaccurate. In particular, I work through the steps
for User Defined Variables but when I try to insert a UDV it simply
inserts the word I want to replace witht the same word. I have no
idea what I'm doing wrong--I've reviewed the actual Help in RH7 as
well as this Reviewer's Guide--and the Help doesn't help me. Either
I'm totally misunderstanding something in the instructions of
either of these documents or they are inaccurate. I do not know
where to turn for assistance in learning the new features.

In addition, when I compiled the sample project (Customer
Care) that didn't contain any changes I had made, the Help simply
wasn't quite right--breadcrumbs didn't work correctly, for one
example.

I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to
proceed--right now I'm just spinning my wheels.

RoboWizard · Answer

Hi Kitlee3On the variables, indeed it will appear that nothing has changed if you are inserting avariable that contains the same text as what is being replaced. Butif you hover your mouse over the text you should see a small popupthat indicates it is actually a variable.One of my favorite uses of variables is CompanyName andCompanyAcronym. If you used these two variables in topics you mightsee AmeriCan MEthods and ACME. But when you went to generate youroutput you would have an option to configure the variables tosomething different. For example, WidgetCo and WC. And the outputwould then contain WidgetCo and WC wherever the variables appeared.As for the breadcrumbs, you may be expecting somethingdifferent than what you get. Note there are two different types ofbreadcrumb trails. * Historical (Presented in a list containing the order inwhich topics have been viewed)* Hierarchal (Presented in a list based on a Hierarchy, suchas the Table of Contents)RoboHelp breadcrumb trails are the latter. They are based onwhere the topic exists in the Table of Contents.Hopefully this was helpful... Rick

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