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April 24, 2018
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RoboHelp2015 Tables not displaying in webhelp output

  • April 24, 2018
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We have a table in a dropbox where I created a table style. When you add the table and table style in the dropbox, the table looks great. When you Preview the topic, the table in the dropbox looks great. When you generate the Webhelp(Pro) output, the tables in the dropboxes no longer have borders anywhere when there should be borders for every row and column. Is there a specific way to define table styles (a specific order like whole table first, then first row, etc.) to make them display properly? For example, if I try to apply all borders for the "whole table" sometimes the lines appear in the "table style preview box" and sometimes they don't. It seems like the more I try to get these defined properly, the more the tables get messed up. I've even changed a table style and had it mess up another table style even though they are independent of each other.

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Correct answer Peter Grainge

Sorry for the confusion. I'm am new and discovering how the publishing process is done. Apparently, we generate our webhelp pro output to a directory on our local drive and then FTP the files to the web server. I looked at the files before the upload and the tables look fine. The tables are unformatted after uploading them to the web server. We were only replacing the changed files and will try replacing them all when we publish today. I'm also wondering, Jeff, if we should be generating WebHelp instead as you suggest. The testing goes on. I appreciate everyone's help.


WebHelp Pro must not be used if you don't have RoboHelp Server, it will

give problems.

As you have generated Pro to the server, you must now clear the folder on

the server and then generate and publish (upload) WebHelp, not WebHelp Pro.

Peter Grainge

www.grainge.org

@petergrainge

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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Community Expert
April 24, 2018

Are you hosting your output on a server running RoboHelp Server? If not, then you should switch to generating WebHelp - the "Pro" variant is especially whipped up to suit RHServer.

lisabj4Author
Inspiring
April 24, 2018

Yes we are hosting our output on a RoboHelp Server. I essentially cannot get the table styles to work properly with borders and alignment in many cases when Webhelp Pro is the output. I've even made a change to one table style and had it change the style of another table style. They were created independent of each other. Is this table style feature as "bug" filled as I think?

Peter Grainge
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 25, 2018

What do you mean by a dropbox?

In the table editor, the term Whole Table means the outer borders of the table. If you want all cells to have a grey border of say n pixels, select Odd Rows and Top Left and apply that formatting, then do the same for Even Rows. In the preview your table should now look OK except for the extreme right and bottom borders. Select Whole Table and apply the formatting with Bottom Right selected.

Whether the help is WebHelp or WebHelp Pro should not make any difference. Are you saying it does?


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

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