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Anonymous
December 22, 2011
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What's This ? Help

  • December 22, 2011
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I am creating help for a new web app.

They are requesting that I incorporate hover text on some fields, which I have not done using RH before.

What I have found in the help is pretty sparce, but says to start that you open the application exe within RH.

This is a web app so I don't have an exe.

Question is, can you do What's This help for a web application, and if so, can someone point me to more comprehensive instructions thatn there are in the RH help.

If not is there another way to incorporate hover text ?

Thanks

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    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    December 22, 2011

    Hi there

    For a web app I'm thinking that this would fall squarely into the lap of the developer.

    The way that the old What's This sort of help worked was that a text file was created containing the text strings. Since they are wanting hover help here, I'm thinking the simplest approach would be for the developer to simply add the required strings into whatever application s/he is using to create the app.

    Cheers... Rick

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    Anonymous
    January 10, 2012

    Is it just me or is that a big flaw ? Why should the developers have to write the hover text.

    Is there a backdoor method where I can provide them a file or files that they can pull into the app ?

    Seems to me when I used Flare a couple years ago I could author hover text that was automatically linked to the app ...

    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    January 10, 2012

    I doubt that Flare provided What's This help for web applications. To the best of my recollection it was something for locally installed applications, and used by very few people at that as it was pretty naff.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

    @petergrainge

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