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I want to disable the print button in RH 2020 (that appears on the topic page). I'm using the Orange layout. I can see where the print button image is and I guess I could replace the image with a blank white box image? but the functionality would still be there. How would I disable the print functionality completely?

Hello,I am upgrading my RH2019 Classic project to the RH2019 New Interface (V.14).The Browse Sequence arrows appear in the Functionbar in my Skin in the Classic output. But when I upgrade, one arrow appears in the Start Page as usual, but then it disappears when I try to advance forward. When advancing, two arrows should appear, forward and backward. None appear now.  My browse sequence and skin layout in the functionbar seem to be ok.Has anyone had this problem in the past and did you find a solution?Thank you,Ken 

Hi all,I am not sure if this is a bug or if it works as designed. I have a topic that I use in two projects. So, I create and maintain this topic in one project and have it linked into the other project. If I change anything in the topic, I see that I have to sync it in my other project. However, if I change existing images in the source topic, the linked one still uses the old images. Also, newly added images are not taken over to the linked topic.Apparently, the images are being copied into the second project once I include the link, but after that, this folder is no longer updated.Any opinions on this?RegardsKarin

We are currently using RoboHelp 2019 Classic but trying to upgrade to the new UI RoboHelp 2019. The program opens without a problem and my project has successfully converted, but when I try and open the upgraded project my CPU hits 100% and it takes around an hour for the project to successfully open. Our project is large (around 4,000 files) but it opens in RoboHelp 2019 Classic without issue and without taking an hour. I'm fairly sure the issue is on our end since the company has a lot of security precautions in place, but I'm not having a lot of luck narrowing down where the issue is and what I can do to make it go away. Yesterday I noticed there are 5 Adobe RoboHelp 2019 background processes running which use up a lot of my CPU. Can anyone tell me what those background processes do? I'm hoping if I can identify the areas where RoboHelp is having issues, then maybe our help desk can work with me to find a solution.

Hi,I've recently upgraded from RH 2019 to version 20. The online help we were generating used the skin's home page in the output. The name of the project would redirect to the home page upon clicking it as expected. This occured in both the home page view and topic view. Upon upgrading to version 20, the behavior has changed. Now, when clicking the title link at the top of the help while viewing a Topic page, the body of the topic disappears and is replaced by the project title instead of redirecting. See the attached screenshots as an example of the different behavior as well as how the objects are identitied in the browser. Through our own troubleshooting, we've noticed that this behavior occurs on our application when the homepage is "start.htm". We've been using this as our homepage name for a while, so we have a lot of legacy links to this page integrated into our application. However, when we generate the same set of help files with the same skin, and use a different ho

Hello everyone. I support an application that usses RoboHelp for it's online help files. We used to have logic built in to our application that was topic sensitive: the RH file that would open when a user clicked on the link to bring them up would correspond to the page the user happened to be on in our UI. That logic was removed from our app some time ago, and the RH files should open on a "Welcome" page by default. However, they are not. They are opening by default on another page within the Table of Contents. When I went in to Webhelp > Content Categories > Content<Default>, there was an old file name in there that nothing to do with the page that was displaying, so I updated it to the current Welcome page file, then saved and generated the files. We then promoted the files to one of our test environments, but it didn't work. The files still open up on the same page as before. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Hello, We had a small security run on our application as a part of our security check-up cycle. It was informed to our team (Tech Writing team) that the potential security issue is identified in the online help file generated using Adobe RoboHelp 2019. The below mentioned specifics of the issue are quoted from the test report: OWASP Vulnerability  Identified:  Source code disclosure.  The application appears to disclose some server-side source code written in PHP which is provided below:  <?rh-msp-search-results-start widgettype="searchresult" class="wSearchResults" id="searchresults" role="navigation" ?>                             <?rh-msp-search-highlight-control id="highlightsearch" widgettype="highlightsearch" type="checkbox"               checked class="wSearchHigh

I have a parent project that's 12 point font in the project, however when it is generated the website is showing a font size of around 9 point at 100%.

We have a couple of existing projects and will have several other projects created in the upcoming months and want to combine the various projects into a single output. Our intent was to use the merged help function in RoboHelp. When attempting to do this, I click on new merge project, select my child projects to merge, click save and generate. The website that the parent project is generated on, the individual child projects aren't showing up on the website page. However, when I generate a child project to my parent project, all of the contents that are in the child project are being shown in the parent project not the individual books.

Hi,    I have been working on a Robohelp project on my PC. The team has now moved to Mac so I've installed a trial version of Robohelp for Mac, so I can continue to work on my project. However, it won't open at all and I continuously receive an 'Application Error'.    Are projects created on PC not compatible with the RH20 Mac version?  Please advise as this is a showstopper for me.  Thanks, Caro

I have 4 buckets, FAQs, KB, Videos, Guides.Right now the default image is displayed for each bucket.Can I add 4 indicative images to show FAQs, KB, Videos, Guides on the home page ToC?

Hi all, I try to compile a responsive HTML5 output that is a subset from a bigger help in the same project.Some of the topics have links to topics that are not in the TOC. Which makes in the end that the complete bigger help is compiled and searchable, even though the TOC doesn't show these topics. PDF output has the option "include referenced topics" which means that if you don't select this, referenced topics that are not in the TOC are not included. That's what I want too. So that links to not-included topics are just unlinked and the topics are indeed not included. I rather don't want to do this with conditions, because then I need to not just add topics to a TOC, but give all of them them conditions to which help they belong as well. Which I had hoped the TOC was for.

Has anyone published to ServiceNow on Robohelp 2020.  I'm looking at doing this and wondered if anyone had any advice, before I try.  I've read the details in the user guide, but happy to take on board any tips or things I need to be aware of.

Hello, We have received customer complaints that search is very slow in the latest versions of RoboHelp frameless output with a larger project (390 topics; 370,000 words). This slowness occurs in all browsers and OS's. Here are the symptoms reported by our users:Searches take a minimum of 20s to displaySome seaches do not completeThe browser occasionally crashesSupport team reports high CPU and memory usage; up to 2GB of memory is used Are there any suggestions as to how we can optimized the search to improve performance? Best practices on how to break out content or strucutre topics to make search more instantaneous? The expectation is that search should complete in a few seconds. Thank you!

How do we update the copyright year and text in footer of Indigo/Coffee layout. Right now it is 2019.

We upgraded our merged HTML5 project from Classic to 2019. The child projects seem not to be communicating with the parent on their "look". The upper right corner should be a search box but instead it says "Click to see this page in full context". Additionally, the header is not displaying the favicon that I set up in the parent. Instead, it's displaying a light blue dot that I suspect is the default for Azure Blue, which is what all the child projects are set to. Even if I add the correct favicon in the child project, the light blue dot still displays. I'm not sure if I'm having problems with settings, problems with parent/child communication, or both.

Hi thereAfter updating to Big Sur on the Mac I successfully install RoboHelp 2020 on a Mac Bokk Pro (Late2017). When startin the app all I see is the launch screen panel which wont go away. Do I miss some security settings?Thanks in advanceChristian

Hi all, I am using RH2019.0.14 and generate HTML5 help. We provide this help as iFrame in angular within our application. There, the original images for thumbnail images cannot be displayed (the popup). When I look into the dev tools, it seems that the help is searching for the original file in the wrong path (instead of moving up one level and then going into assets, the help tries to find the assets folder in the same level where the help file is stored).So, the help returns 404 not found error in the console saying: http://localhost:4200/assets/help/EOH/Widgets/assets/images/Widget-Links2.png was not found. But the source code says to search for the image under ../../assets/images/Widget-Links2.png, which would result in http://localhost:4200/assets/help/assets/images/Widget-Links2.pngI already asked our developer and he says this seems to be a problem of the JavaScript created by RH to unsolve the thumbnail.Does anyone know if there is a possibility to make the thumb

Hi there, I see that the reports in the Adobe Server Web Administrator does not work properly. And it is not that they dont work at all. I see that on certain day there is data but on other dates there isn't. What could be the issue - attached is a snapshot. Thanks in advance Bobby  

Using trial of RH2020 (upgrade from 2017) and it is ... unintuitive and somewhat buggy. Couple of questions/notes based on my experience so far. 1) Related Topics - Where are they in the user interface Standard Toolbar? They appear to have ported over from an upgraded topic, but I don't see how to add them.  I see mention of "Related Topics" in the help and in posts in this forum, but damned if I can figure out where the icon is to create them. The toolbar icons display in the following order: Contents > TOC > Index > Glossary > See Also > Microcontent (no RT, which I assume would show under or next to See Also). 2) What is it with combining lists and paragraph styles? Say I create an ordered or bulleted list - when I apply a paragraph style TO that list, I get double-paragraphs between each list entry in the Author UI (instead of a single paragraph). It does appear that you should be applying formatting to the list (not the paragraph), but I'm h

I am trying to customize the responsive HTML5 > Coffee Layout that is provided out of the box. I tried changing the colors of the background and the font but it does not apply. I could add my custom logo. But the colors are not getting updated in the output. Is this an issue with the layout?

I am trying out RH 2020. The Sharing options have linkedin, FB, twitter, email. Can we add an option where the user can save a page as PDF? I know another option is to use Print and select save as PDF. But I am skeptical if users know about this.

Hi all, I am just starting to play around with the Microcontent. I created some collections and placed them at the respective places in my TOC. When I then create an HTML5 output, a message is shown saying "Output completed with some issues". When I check the output log, there is a warning message for every Microcontent I added: "Warning: skipping external link "microcontent/FAQ.mc"However, when I check the output, the Microcontent is there and seems to be complete.Why is this message shown? Am I doing something wrong here?Thanks and regardsKarin

I am creating a file with lots of topics and sections and I need a way to expeditiously navigate this. On the order/magnitude of a phone book/dictionary/encyclopedia. I was thinking that a scrolling object such as a table(s) or list(s) but I can find nothing about adding scrolling functionality to these items. Please advise.

Hello,I wanted to check to make sure this wasn't user error or just something that can't be done with RH.  I am using RH2020 update 2 mac. I have several long topics that have bookmarks.  I am trying to place a little matrix at the top of the topic with links to those bookmarks further down the page.  In the html5 version, the links jump you right down the page to where where the bookmark is.  In the PDF version, the links have the styling to indicate a link but you cannot click on it.  NOTE:  This only happens when i am linking to a bookmark within the same page.  Linking to bookmarked items located on another page/topic works.  It is only bookmarks located on the same page.  I have tried typing out the link title, highlighting it and dragging the bookmark from the contents onto the desired link.  I have also just tried dragging the bookmark from the contents menu directly onto the page.