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Anonymous
Apr 29, 2019 2:27 PM UTC
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RoboHelp 2019 new UI - Glossary tab doesn't appear in CHM file at all

I have glossary items.  I have specified the glossary in the preset.  The chm gets generated and there isn't a glossary tab at all.  What have I missed?

Jim

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Peter Grainge
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Apr 29, 2019 3:01 PM UTC

Create a new window and make sure the glossary tab is ticked in that. Then select that in the preset.

Out of the box the default window doesn't show a glossary but I just tried the above and it then appeared.

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Peter Grainge
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Apr 29, 2019 3:01 PM UTC

Create a new window and make sure the glossary tab is ticked in that. Then select that in the preset.

Out of the box the default window doesn't show a glossary but I just tried the above and it then appeared.

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

@petergrainge

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Anonymous
Apr 29, 2019 3:30 PM UTC

Thanks Peter. That piece is solved. What behavior are the terms you give

a glossary term in the topic (right click - create glossary term) supposed

to demonstrate? I'm not seeing any text difference in the chm file. Is

that another setting I've m

Jim

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Captiv8r
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Apr 29, 2019 3:52 PM UTC

Hopefully Peter won't mind my popping in here.

There simply is no behavior other than to click the term in the top part of the glossary panel and see the text definition appear in the bottom part. The glossary implemented that way is simply text. No links or images or even special formatting such as bold or italics is allowed.

You DO have the option of clicking and dragging glossary terms to the topic and that will create an expanding text link that will allow the user to click and reveal the definition. Or, you can launch the Glossary Hotspot Wizard that will trawl through your topics and do that for you.

Note too, that if you use the Glossary tab, you will need to ensure you ship and register the two HHActiveX.dll files to your end users. The functionality of the Glossary Tab relies on code inside the DLLs. There are two. One for 32 bit systems and one for 64 bit systems.

Cheers... Rick

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