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Aug 12, 2020 4:17 PM UTC
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Major problems with Robohelp 2020 not displaying TOC, Index, and Search information

I just upgraded to robohelp 2020 and having major problems with the product not displaying my help correctly. The upgrade went smoothly, and when I first display the output the TOC displays. However, the index and search does not work. When I go back to the TOC after going to the index, now the TOC no longer displays. Any ideas?  Could this be an IE problem? IE is the default browser here so it has to work for IE.

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    Known Participant
    Aug 17, 2020 12:01 PM UTC

    Thank you for replying and letting me know, because Adobe has not replied to either email I have sent them.

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    Peter Grainge
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    Aug 17, 2020 10:03 AM UTC

    The cause of this problem has been identified and I believe it will be fixed in the next update due soon.

     

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    Peter Grainge
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    Aug 13, 2020 7:19 AM UTC

    I just gave that a try with no success but I do know that this is being looked into.

     

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    Legend
    Aug 13, 2020 6:43 AM UTC

    Hi there,

    I am not sure if I can help here, but I had several issues with IE here and there with Robohelp responsive help outputs. You could try the following and see if it helps:

    Create a test project with only a few files for testing. Add the following line in your .htm-files of the output:

    <!-- saved from url=(0016)http://localhost

    after the first line. You'll have to enter this for all .htm-files of your output, so if this works for you, create a script that does this job for you (or ask a dev). 

    Then try again if index and search will work then.

    You could also try this line:

    <!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->

    See this topic for further reference:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/robohelp/html5-and-mark-of-the-web/td-p/6223994?page=1#8918264

     

    Kind regards

    Karin

     

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    Aug 12, 2020 6:16 PM UTC

    okay. I did send an email to Adobe Tech Support already because I assumed it would come to this. I did go around and around with this same problem when I installed Adobe 2019 until everyone realized it really was an IE problem and Adobe sent me a fix. I hope this doesn't cause any problems. But I truly thank you for all your time and effort. Any help on your end to get the fix quicker would be greatly apprepriated.   If someone needs to contact me, send me a post here. or techsupport can respond to my email.  thanks again

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    Peter Grainge
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    Aug 12, 2020 6:07 PM UTC

    Hold up. I missed an important part of the issue you are reporting. Yes the index is failing and yes the TOC then fails. My apologies for missing that.

     

    I will take that up with Adobe but there won't be an answer today.

     

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    Peter Grainge
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    Aug 12, 2020 6:04 PM UTC

    Are you generating to the same drive as your project. This is looking like an environment problem as About RoboHelp works for me using Azure Blue and IE.

     

    Are you opening the help direct or through some software?

     

    Are you able to share the project? See the Contact page on my site if you can share.

     

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    Known Participant
    Aug 12, 2020 5:57 PM UTC

    If I load the same help file in Chrome with azure_blue skin. no problems at all going back and forth with the tabs.

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    Known Participant
    Aug 12, 2020 5:55 PM UTC

    I added Azure_blue and the same thing happens. I generate and when it displays the TOC displays. However, go to the index and nothing. Go back to the TOC and now the TOC doesn't display. Same problem

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    Peter Grainge
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    Aug 12, 2020 5:47 PM UTC

    Try Azure Blue.

     

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