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June 17, 2019
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RoboHelp 2019 (New) | Condition Tags not Displaying as Expected in Preview

  • June 17, 2019
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Hello,

I think I might be doing something wrong with the new UI, but I am not seeing the conditional tags working in the preview with RoboHelp 19 as I would expect. I am current using 2019.0.7 and I have tried this with upgraded projects, the demo projects as well as a new project I created just to test. In the screen capture, I should not see the text with the applied conditional build tag of Test in the preview when selected from the Properties to the right. I searched the forum and did not see this as a known issue, am I missing something?

Thanks in advanced for your help.

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Correct answer Peter Grainge

Yes it's unfortunate that while the "logic" of the Filter behavior is working correctly, our expectation as a result of using the previous CBT expression viewer is causing a big dose of cognitive dissonance

I applaud the idea of trying to make the UI simpler. At the same time we should press for have a more straightforward way of viewing the old boolean expression paradigm as an option. 

John Daigle

Adobe Certified RoboHelp and Captivate Instructor

Newport, Oregon

www.showmethedemo.com

Author of RoboHelp-Quickstart-Lessons

@hypertexas


The single tag not working is a bug that will be fixed. Hopefully expressions will also get added back. I am in nagging mode on that one.

See www.grainge.org for free RoboHelp and Authoring information.

@petergrainge

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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June 17, 2019

I have amended the title of the thread as it helps people searching for 2019 problems,

There is a change in the Preview options as they only show the tags rather than expressions and whatever you tick is shown rather than hidden. It's explained in the RoboHelp Reimagined sample project and the RoboHelp Tour on my site. I think if you deselect Test you will see what you expect.

See www.grainge.org for free RoboHelp and Authoring information.

@petergrainge

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STLRGA
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June 17, 2019

Hi Peter,

Thanks for explaining basically how it works kind of "backwords" now in the preview. However, when I mess around with the tags and select/deselect them in the preview properties, it is just not doing anything, no matter what I try? The highlight option does work and the conditional expression settings give me what I expect in the output, but nothing happening in the preview.

Thanks again.

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