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s4unders
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March 16, 2009
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Where has the user defined variable pod gone?

  • March 16, 2009
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Last week I used the User Defined Variable pod to define some user defined variables in a project.

Today I click View > Pods > User Defined Variables and nothing appears! Furthermore, on the Insert menu, the User Defined Variable option is greyed-out.

Has anyone experienced this before? What is the solution?

Regards

Ian Saunders
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    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 16, 2009
    For what it is worth, RH8 has a script that does this.

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    ginafromtampa
    Inspiring
    March 18, 2010

    Peter, you have once again saved me from having a meltdown!  The same thing just happened to me in RoboHelp 7.  All of a sudden I could get the Project Manager pod to open.  I uninstalled and reinstalled, and still couldn't.  Got an error and it shut down when trying to load my environments.  So I loaded the default environment, and voila!  It worked.  Thanks!

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    TA_Andy
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    July 12, 2012

    Hi Everyone,

    I echo ginafromtampa's comment. Just had the same thing happen in RH8.

    FYI in RH8 it's File/Environment/Load Default Environment.

    So many thanks to Peter for this nugget of life-saving info.

    I'm still a bit surprised I had to do this though - all I did was close all pods to maximise my editing window space.

    Then upon trying to reset everything -> forget it, I didn't even have the View/Pods menu item (in fact I still don't).

    Is this (dare I say it) a slightly flaky GUI? or have I done something stupid?

    RoboColum_n_
    RoboColum_n_
    Legend
    March 16, 2009
    You could use a find and replace tool such as FAR or BkReplaceEm if you know the code that RH would use for a variable. There is not other way inside RH without manually looking for the text string and replacing it with a variable.
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    s4undersAuthor
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    March 16, 2009
    OK, thanks!

    While we're on the subject, is there an easy way of replacing a text string with a user variable throughout all the topics in a project?
    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 16, 2009
    Possibly accidentally moved to somewhere in your layout where you couldn't see it.

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    RoboColum_n_
    RoboColum_n_
    Legend
    March 16, 2009
    Chances are it didn't Ian but may have got "hidden" somewhere in the UI. You may want to save your own environment in case this happens again.
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    s4undersAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 16, 2009
    Peter,

    Your solution worked! Many thanks for your help!

    I’m fairly sure that I had the cursor in a topic. Now it’s fixed, I can’t check...

    Why would the pod disappear?

    Best wishes

    Ian
    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    March 16, 2009
    Welcome to the forum.

    Easiest solution is to File > Load Default Environment.

    You say the insert option is disabled. When a topic has focus? Click in a topic and try again.

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    s4undersAuthor
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    March 16, 2009
    Sorry, I should have said that this is RH7.

    Ian
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