Why do topic question mark icons have red x's?

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
December 30, 2010
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Hi,

I was given some RH files to update. But when I open them in RH HTML v. 8, all the topics have red x's on them. And when I try to open a topic, I get a TOC Page Properties dialog box. Could you help? It's possible I don't have the right files...

Thanks,

Erin

HTML

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Anonymous

Hey, I've encountered the same problem. I applied the patch and followed the steps, however, when I run the report for unused files, I have a big list. My question is, where do I reimport the topics from? As far as I can tell, the topics are all still present in the SSL folder. Thanks in advance.

Jeff

Captiv8r

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Hi there

If you see topics in the !SSL! folder you need to be leery about using those. LIkely they are WebHelp output topics. These topics share the same name as your source topics but are modified versions of the source topics. They will be rife with all sorts of JavaScript that will muck up your project if you repurpose them as source topics again without cleaning all the scripting out of them.

The best bet is to locate the true original source topics. So do more digging before resorting to WebHelp topics.

If you simply cannot find the source topics, you can use the WebHelp topics. Take a look at the link below for a method of dealing with that.

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Cheers... Rick

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Anonymous

Thanks for the reply Rick! Any suggestions on where these things could 'possibly' reside? Do I look within Robohelp or somewhere in the output folder? Thanks a lot.

Jeff