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RH2020 MACHello,Is it possible to customize the display name for bookmarks that are used in the index output.  I have a longer topic in my project that contains several bookmarks.  When i try to add a bookmark as a topic to an index term, it displays the parent file name along with the bookmark name in the output: parent_topic.htm#bookmark1.  I know i can rename the display title for a bookmark in the TOC but i can't seem to find the same option for the index section.Current Output Example Topic:Fruits (topic name)Apples (bookmarked section within fruits)Oranges (bookmarked section within fruits)Plums (bookmarked section within fruits)Current Index Setup and OutcomeFruit Types (Keyword)Apples (displays as Fruits.htm#Apples in the output)Oranges (displays as Fruits.htm#Oranges in the output)Plums (displays as Fruits.htm#Plums in the output)Desired Index Outcome:Fruit TypesApples (displays as Apples)Oranges (displays as Oranges)Plums (displays as Plums) 

Hi Everyone, We are working to migrate from RoboHelp 2019 Classic to RoboHelp 2019 New UI and are having issues with Style Sheets and the formatting of Multi-Level Lists. Here is the scenario: We have 18 Word documents that are the source files for our User Guide. The RoboHelp Project pulls in the contents of each Word document via Content / Link / Link File. Once the file is linked I use Edit Settings / Advanced to select  Convert Word Lists to HTML Lists and Import Inline Styles then select Create / Update topics.The result is content that looks perfect in the RoboHelp Content editor (List numbering, Fonts applied, Indentations correct) but has issues in the Responsive HTML5 output. When I create and apply the Master Page I loose the font formatting (the results of the Import Inline Styles). Everything I want to do works PERFECTLY in RoboHelp 2019 Classic.  Something happened in Reimagined - The List Paragraph style sheet is not being applied to the multi-level list items.&

Hi - I am fairly new to RoboHelp so bare with me. I inherited this project from someone else, and I created a new master page to make the pages look and feel different. How can I apply this master page to all of the pages in my project? Should I have just made the changes to the master page that is already applied? Any help would be appreciated!!

We have RoboHelp 2017 (latest version). We use a merged HTML5 help system, and we're customizing our first page (intro.htm) in that merged help system I'm knee-deep in Javascript code, and I need my js code on that page to find out if we're in a full context view or not. The easiest way, I can think of is to just check the URL. Example URL (Not in Full Context): file:///D:/DocProjects/Outputs/pcdmis/2021.1/en/helpcenter/mergedProjects/helpcentertopics/intro.htm  Example URL - In Full Context): file:///D:/DocProjects/Outputs/pcdmis/2021.1/en/helpcenter/index.htm#t=mergedProjects%2Fhelpcentertopics%2Fintro.htm  Note that the full context view has "#t=". That's the magic bit I'm checking for. Also, note that intro.htm is within a child project in the merged help system, and the javascript script is called within that project. I pass the URL into this function which checks if the URL has "#t=" so that the function can determine if I'm in full co

Hi. I am using Robohelp 2019 v2019.0.14. I have several pages that use multiple stylesheets but when I compile using Responsive HTML only the main project stylesheet is included. Can someone please explain how I can get all stylesheets to be included?  Many thanks in advance.

Hello,I am not sure if this is user error or not.  I am using RH2020 (mac) with a Responsive HTML5 output. The issue i am facing is that the breadcrumb links (other than Home) do not navigate to intended page when clicked.  When i view the output in firefox developer tools, all breadcrumb links give the following url value: href="../../#" so clicking on them does nothing.   I added the breadcrumbs by going into my master page for web output and placed a breadcrumb placeholder in the header.  The actual text readout is perfect - just that the links don't work. Is there some step i am missing with this? 

RoboHelp 2020's autogeneration inserts social media links into my Responsive HTML output.Is there a setting or other means to prevent this generated output?

Hello,Not sure where to start troubleshooting.  I am using RH2020 MAC - update 1.  I am using the HTML5 output.  When i perform a search, there are some search result items return the entire page text contents in the search results window.  In viewing the topic code, nothing seems to jump out at me that would cause the issue.  In several instances, the term will only be listed once in the topic but the entire topic's contents will be listed in the search resultsResearch Results for "STIX"result 1xxxresult 2xxxxresult 3all text in the topicresult 4xxxxx    

I am using RH 2019. I generated a Responsive HTML 5 project. It works fine on Chrome (Windows and Mac); however, the TOC doesn't appear on Safari (Mac). Is there something I can do?

Hi, Everyone. In RH 2019 (new UI), I'm starting a new project and importing a Word doc. Looking for help with best practices for the import. I've pulled in my chosen CSS from a good RH project. Can anyone tell me best practices for the Word Import Settings dialog? Thank you! What is "Load Settings"?Topic Name Pattern?Paragraph Tab?Character Tab?Any way to exclude MS Word bookmarks from the import? 

I am upgrading a large-ish project from Robohelp 2017 to Robohelp 2020, where I have used snippets extensively. However, the snippets are moving to outside of lists when they have been placed in lists.Here's an example:In 2017:<ol style="list-style: decimal;"><li><p><a href="javascript:BSSCPopup('../PopupTopics/Opening_Account_Data.htm');"id="a1">Open Account Data for the job</a>.</p></li><li><p><span>Click </span><span class="Button-Menu">Design Data</span><span>in the left menu.<br /></span><span class="NoAction">The Overall section will be automaticallyselected.</span></p></li><?rh-placeholder type="snippet" ref="JobTemplateDesignDataOverall" ?></ol> inside the JobTemplateDesignDataOverall snippet, I have a bunch of list items, but I removed the <OL> tags from the snippet, so that it could be placed within an existing list at a

Hello,We just updated to RH 2020 this week and are seeing 2 issues. One is that when we generate a Responsive Output, the Search Results displays breadcrumbs under every topic. Also, the text that displays below each topic seems almost random  and ideally, we'd like it to display the intro para - I've played around with context/characters but that hasn't seem to have helped. Any input would be much appreciated!  

Not a question. Just sharing the knowledge I gained from converting our RoboHelp HTML topic-based glossary to RoboHelp HTML's .GLO glossary.For years we've provided a glossary via a single topic; terms and definitions were presented in 2-column tables - one table for each letter, A-Z, top to bottom. Jump links for each letter at the top of the topic. For various reasons, I've been looking at the .GLO function (I really like the hotspot wizard, but I'm still not sure if it'll create any unintended formatting consequences with our content (thousands of topics)). We have a couple hundred terms and manually copying/pasting them in RoboHelp HTML is NOT something we want to do so I decided to see if I could automate most of the process (particularly since there's a single .GLO file and the guts of the terms/definitions is basic HTML).What you'll need:RoboHelp HTML 10 or RoboHelp HTML 2017 (likely applies to other versions; we have these two so I can verify it worked in both)MS Excel (or some

RH 2017 (latest) So, in some of our .htm pages, I noticed this style block kept appearing:  <style type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/ A:visited { color: #954F72; } A:link { color: #0563C1; } /*]]>*/</style>  This conflicts (takes precedence) with our style sheet, so I removed them. But what causes them to appear in the first place? I'm guessing it appears due to a copy and paste from Word into RH. Is that right? If so, is there a setting somewhere that turns this off so that copy-pasting only pastes straight text? I've not seen anything like that setting, and so my usual process is to paste into something that strips out all inline styling first, like Np++. Then copy from there into RH. I know in RH I can right-click on paragraphs, and choose Remove Attribute to get rid of inline styling at the paragraph level. But that doesn't do anything to this style block that gets added into the header. Thank you.

I've found a couple of other topics on the boards relating to this, but it looks like they might be for different versions of Robohelp. Thanks to Peter's great help on my PDF build issue I am on a roll. One more question ... it appears that the online docs generate fine as far as styles go. I'm using different master pages for online and print (different headers and footers).  I attached the same style sheet to the master pages.  The online docs use the style sheet as intended, but the PDF does not (it's like the styles don't exist). I've seen other posts that indicate that online and print need to use different style sheets. What do I need to add to the online style sheet to get the PDF Output to recognize that it will be used for print output?

I have a curious situation where a topic is suddenly not appearing in the compiled ToC. The topic is listed in the browser's navigation pane, but when I click on it, a message tells me the file is missing and may have been moved, edited or deleted. From within RH, the topic's file appears in the Contents list and the Table of Contents list, and it can be opened from both lists. Further, when I look in Explorer, the file is there, in the same folder as the other topics that appear with it in the compiled ToC. (These sibling topics display fine in the browser.) What could have caused one file that is certainly not mising in an RH project to be considered missing by a browser?

How can I remove the Favorites button from the home page? I use the 2020 version of  RoboHelp. 

I thought my questions were at an end. LOL I am having no problem generating Responsive HTML for my large project, but the PDF output has not yet been successful. I've poured over my project to try to figure out why it keeps failing, but I'm at a loss. Here is what I've checked so far. Java SE Runtime 8u261 is installed to its default installation path 64-bit machine, 64-bit version.Adobe Robohelp is installed to its default installation pathMy RoboHelp project is built on my local D drive, but it is synched with a folder on Dropbox for backup and distribution to the company I am doing the docs forThere are no broken links (close to 800 topics total in two manuals)One mystery file was listed in the RoboHelp log. I kept getting one message in the log that it failed to copy D:/Dropbox/ ....... (project path) ...../contents/assets/masterpages/_rhdefault.css. So I manually created a copy of that file and pasted it into that location.  The error went away. The big puzzle is w

In RoboHelp 2017 I used a file named redistrb.txt found in the Redist folder to determine what to ship with my Windows app and chm file. Where are these same files for RoboHelp 2020? here is what was in the 2017 list:Please refer to the "Redistributables" section of the AdobeLicense Agreement that you received with this product for specificrequirements regarding the Adobe Redistributables.The Adobe Redistributables for this product are listed below:-------------------------------------------------------------ActxWH.dllCSH.DLLcshtml.dllHelpDesk.ocxHHActiveX.dllHTMLWH.DLLINETWH16.DLLINETWH32.DLLNpwsc32.dllPopup.ocxRHGBTN32.DLLRHMMPLAY.DLLROBOEX32.DLL

Hello. I installed RoboHelp 2020. But after opening the program a new window appears , where I want to click on "Start free trial", I always get the message "An error occurred". If i close the window the whole RoboHelp program shutts down. If there is someone, who solved the problem or had the same problem, i would be thankful. Best regards.

i have a mockup in which there are 2 smartlayers .i have 2 folders i need a script in which 1 smart layer should be replaced with photos in one folder and another smart layer from second folder and save that as jpeg  is there any scripts for that 

Hi Folks, I'm a lone tech writer at my company. We are now hiring two other writers. Our setup is very simple. We'e all on Windows 10 and use the latest version of RH 2019. I want to setup a source control system to manage the files. Note, we have no budget to get new software/hardware etc, so will probably have to use open source, eg Git. What software would you recommend?Also, anything we should avoid? Thanks.

I read here about using Conditional Tags from publishing, and have set that up. But here is my issue - I publish content to a test site first for review. After review, I publish to a production site.  The new content I'm building covers several subjects, all with different areas. I'm working on several at a time. I *can* tag them all, but it will be a drag when I publish to test to untag them, then retag.   Is there any way to tag my Books in the TOC? I haven't found a way yet, but that would be much simpler. Is there a better way to handle this? I *could* have two different Projects, but then would have to copy over data and add the screenshots, which would also be a lot of work. Very open to any of your suggestions. Thank you, stay healthy! Anahid

I am trying to allign some text within my project, but the option within the 'Properties Panel' isn't showing. When I go through all of the different headings in the panel, no font or text options are available to me. I have tried highlighting my text and also selecting before or after the text on the same line and still no luck. I am using a .css file on my topics and nothing appeared when I created a blank topic with no stylesheet attached to it either.Thanks in advance for the help.

Using RH 2019. Trying to connect RH to SP OK. when I create a connection profile to the root address of our intranet, RH lets me login in and make the connection.https://broadridge.sharepoint.com/sites/TechnicalDocumentation/SitePages/Home.aspx However, I need to connect to our tech docs folders is at: https://broadridge.sharepoint.com/sites/TechnicalDocumentation/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?viewid=12ebf928%2Da4b5%2D4060%2D932c%2D8ee545fe5417&id=%2Fsites%2FTechnicalDocumentation%2FShared%20Documents%2FTEST When I do this, an error appears saying it could not find the site and check for permissions. I'm the SP admin so have full control.  Anyone know why this is happening and how to get around it?