Searching in RoboHelp HTML

Robin/Gina,

If you just want to search and replace text within an HTM/HTML file you caan achieve this by using Word and the macro below. You will need to change the "Path to use" line and change the myfile line to htm/html. Remember to backup before trying.

Public Sub BatchReplaceAll()

Dim FirstLoop As Boolean
Dim myFile As String
Dim PathToUse As String
Dim myDoc As Document
Dim Response As Long

PathToUse = "C:\test"

'Error handler to handle error generated whenever
'the FindReplace dialog is closed

On Error Resume Next

'Close all open documents before beginning

Documents.Close SaveChanges:=wdPromptToSaveChanges

'Boolean expression to test whether first loop
'This is used so that the FindReplace dialog will
'only be displayed for the first document

FirstLoop = True

'Set the directory and type of file to batch process

myFile = Dir$(PathToUse & "*.doc")

While myFile <> ""

'Open document
Set myDoc = Documents.Open(PathToUse & myFile)
'If ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneNone Then
' ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdNormalView
' Else
' ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView
' End If
If FirstLoop Then

'Display dialog on first loop only

Dialogs(wdDialogEditReplace).Show

FirstLoop = False

Response = MsgBox("Do you want to process " & _
"the rest of the files in this folder", vbYesNo)
If Response = vbNo Then Exit Sub

Else

'On subsequent loops (files), a ReplaceAll is
'executed with the original settings and without
'displaying the dialog box again

With Dialogs(wdDialogEditReplace)
.ReplaceAll = 1
.Execute
End With

End If
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdPrintView
'Close the modified document after saving changes

myDoc.Close SaveChanges:=wdSaveChanges

'Next file in folder

myFile = Dir$()

Wend

End Sub

Hope it helps,

Brian

I was unable to find a phrase I was looking for in my RoboHelp X5 project with RoboHelp's Multi-File Find and Replace tool. I was searching for "Change button" which I knew was there, because I could see it in the WYSIWYG editor. I was thinking that it might be an issue with Microsoft Visual Studio source control since I use that tool for version control. So I made certain that all my files were checked in, then searched again, and Multi-File Find and Replace still couldn't find the phrase. I downloaded FAR ( http://helpware.net/FAR/index.html) as suggested on this forum, but that tool couldn't find the phrase either. I tried searching the output (FlashHelp) but there's no Boolean search capability like there is in WebHelp, so a search for "Change button" resulted in a number of topics that was the equivalent of an "OR" search. I even searched through the RoboHelp files in Windows Explorer and still couldn't find what I knew was there.

Finally, I discovered why. I highlighted "Change button" in the topic and looked at the html code in the True Code editor and found: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Change</span> button.<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Evidently Multi-File Find and Replace is not searching the WYSIWYG. (On the Multi-File Find and Replace tool's dialog I even made sure to use *.* in the Named field to search all files, not just html).

Does anyone have a solution to this? Shouldn't the Multi-File Find and Replace tool be searching the WYSIWYG?

Thanks!

Gina

Eileen,

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, we have about 2000 topics in our project, so opening each one is not an option.
It's not so much replace that I need, simply being able to find across all the topics is the key thing, then being able to double click the results and open them in the RoboHelp editor.

I still find it hard to believe this feature is lacking!!!