RoboHelp

I have imported a pdf file to adobe robohelp folder. However, when I drag the pdf to a topic, a link is created to the pdf. in the earlier releases the opdf file would imported and converted to html. How can I achieve this in Robohelp 2019

After the latest update at the end of November any text that is preceded with "id=" is green in the editor. The output is fine when previewing and compiled. I assume the software is "trying" to be helpful and tell me something. Is there a way I can turn it off? I use a wrapper for the whole topic, so therefore my whole page is green text.Thanks,Mary Ann

Hi,I can't play the FLV and MP4 files in the CHM file generated from single-sourcing FM11 via Robohelp10.FLV appears with play button but the screen is black. MP4 appears as a hyperlink and when selected it opens the quicktime app and nothing happened.Please help. I installed the latest flash and quicktime player and installed all the available codecs.Thanks!Kai

Hi,I am currently working in a project where IFrame is blocked. Hence, the top navigation and left navigation panes of the webhelp output were not loading. Now, we have manually created a TOC and the Index page which are working. However, we are unable to create the Search feature. Although there is a search feature available in Robohelp 17 (Insert>HTML Form>Search Field), it is also not working. Can anybody tell how the search feature under HTML form can be made to work?If this can be done, then the webhelp can be used avoiding IFrames.Or else, is there anyway to avoid generating outputs in IFrames?Message was edited by Peter Grainge - Version corrected to help others when searching for same problem.

I have created a CHM file in RoboHelp 2015, V 12.0.2.384, in Win7 and all MP4 files hyperlinked through a text entry on HTML pages, open and play in either Windows Media Center or Player. One of my customers just converted their laptop to Win 10 and now he cannot get the MP4 files to play in either of the players. Anybody else have experience with this? A workaround? Some tips or tricks that I may not be aware of?Here is what it looks like on the page:What it looks like when clicked on in Win 7Here is a typical entry code behind the page hyperlink (maybe some one can use this code and insert their own video file for the link and see if it works in Win 10 for them):<tr>                <td><p style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;                          margin-top: 6pt; margin-bott

I have to say, I'm pretty frustrated. In the past I've had issues with RH (it's not my strongest app), but I was excited to have a new version to start with. However, I can't seem to get styles to work properly (new project, ran the update before creating it). Also, RH has crashed no less than 5 times today while I've been trying to make simple style setting changes. (The application has run into an error. Please save your unsaved changes and restart. message in the corner, after this appears, I can't do anything.) And beyond the very simple help section blurb there's virtually no information on how to use this new version. I admit, RH and CSS aren't my strongest talents. But setting up a new paragraph style shouldn't cause the software to crash. Adding simple top and bottom margins to even a default paragraph style shouldn't cause the software to crash. Changing the font family shouldn't cause the software to crash. I've tried adding new styles to the style sheet, and the changes don'

I am using RH HTML in version RH11.I am getting the following, multiple warning messages when compiling the CHM file and the file will not open.HHC3004: Warning: TopicName.htm : The HTML tag "?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?" is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).Here are the strange things...I am generating using 3 conditional build tags.  It is successful using any of the tags individually, or any 2 of the tags.  Just not all three.     I am able to generate with 3 build tags, the first 2 of the 3 above and one other one.Each time I generate using the same settings (the 3 tags), the warning is applied to different topics.  Some topics that had the warning before, don't in the next iteration.The CHM generates, but the file is double the size of the successful attempts.  64MB vs 32MB.     Other info:Working and generating on a single machine.This worked fine 6/24/2016 with all the exac

We are evaluating the Robohelp 2017 release. As we are a government contractor, we must be sure that our output is 508 compliant. We like the Responsive HTML output, though that is not a requirement and I'm wondering now if we will have to go with WebHelp. We cannot seem to test that our Responsive HTML output is 508 compliant. The Wave tool on Chrome doesn't work on it. Adobe says "The 508 compliant HTML5 layouts let you create content that is accessible to all users" but we simply haven't been able to prove this. As of RoboHelp 2015, Adobe responded in one of these threads that it was not 508 compliant. I assume this changed in 2017 but need to be sure. Any recommendations? We could try to confirm that our alt text is associated with our images, at minimum.Message was edited by: Jeff Coatsworth fixed typo - no RH2016 exists

We are using RoboHelp15 and RoboServer9 currently.  A few weeks ago, the RoboServer had to be moved to an AWS environment.  We have help projects on the server back to 2011.  Some of the older versions stopped working for our customers after the move.  It is confusing to me that some versions of the help work, but not others for our customers. NetOps is pointing to the new server to redirect.Do you have any suggestions on troubleshooting this issue?Things I have tried:Generating a new build to the server for a project that is not working.  Didn't help.Noticed that in the older builds, the project was opening to the topic MySurveysGrid, but with the move changed to Getting Started topic, which is what we use in our newer projects. When I generate to the server now, even though the default topic is MySurveysGrid, it changed to Getting Started which changes the URL of course.  NetOps is telling me that it looks like when I generate a build it is affecting all

When I try to open .XPJ file from RoboHelp (version 8), it asks for user credentials to be entered. What exactly are these credentials and where to get one.

[I have a merged layout (currently 30 projects merged) using RoboHelp 15, MSIE 11, Windows 7 ENT.]   (I searched to find a discussion about this but didn’t easily find one, my apologies if this a redundant stream.) The topic pane shows blank for a child project (but, TOC displays correctly). I think this is due to a mistake where the source folder and the output folder temporarily had different names, and guessing the parent project can’t handle the folder name mismatch. So, my guess is that publishing the child project temporarily fixes the problem, but the permanent fix is to delete the merged child, then re-merge. I’ll post my results tomorrow, I hope. Make sense? Has anyone had the same or similar issue?  Or does something else cause this issue? thnx

I would like to change some TOC links without having to republish the whole project, but I am having a hard time finding the correct file to edit. Can someone tell me what is the name of the TOC file/s where I can alter the link?

I'm working in RH 2017 responsive HTML layout. I successfully tested using the external content search function on an external website. I used three key words as a test. The search using each key word resulted in the website. When I clicked the search result, the new window opened and displayed the expected external web site. My question is:Is there a way to have the key words used in the search highlighted on the external website, like we see during any other key word search?First time post, so I hope I was clear enough on my discussion.Thanks for your time.Jason

How do you remove the search field from the function bar? I don’t want it in both the navigation pane and the function bar.Output settings for WebHelp include Navigation, where you can select whether to include Search Input Field in Toolbar. I haven’t found a similar setting for HTML5 Responsive output.

Hi,I frequently do find and replace operations in my html code in RoboHelp. I have noticed that when I do a find and replace in the code for all files in a folder, RH sometimes breaks lines randomly, which creates an error. For example, it may change:     </tr>to     </tr>This type of error is revealed only when the topic is displayed in the browser after output is generated (previewed topic looks ok).It also sometimes breaks url's:      "../../folder1/folder2/folder3/filename.html"becomes     "../../folder1/folder2/folder3/filename.html"These errors show up as broken links in the project pane.This may happen 3 or 4 times in a few dozen files, ranging in size from 50 - 2500 lines. Most files are fine, but a handful will have 1 or 2 errors. It is time-consuming to find and fix all of these. Validating the files recognizes that there is an error when it involves a tag, but it never takes me t

Hi,RoboHelp 10 is installed on my machine. When I generate the WebHelp output, the output file does not open in Chrome. Please guide.Thanks!

I have upgraded my Robo10 project to the RH2019 project.  All things go well.Then I created an H5 preset, and set some settings, then clicked generating, but after several hours, the process is still continuing. I don't know why.Ps: there's another problem when I upgraded the project. If I first open RH2019 classic, and upgrade my robo10 project, after the upgrade finished, then I open RH2019 to upgrade the classic project, all things in the new 2019 project are OK.  If I directly use RH2019 to upgrade my robo10 project, many files just under the root project are missing, like those .hhc, and some pictures.

I just installed it and upgraded one of our Online Help projects. It crashes when I try to do pretty much anything. Often when I click on something or select something from a menu, nothing happens. I rename things and the name doesn't change... Is it just me? I can't imagine it's in a usable state for many people like this.

HiWhile generating printed doc for RoboHelp 11, I am getting the following error.Any suggestions?ThanksMeenu

Recently I have installed Robohelp 2019, but I am not able to generate Webhelp or any output. I am using IE 11.When I was using 2017 version, I was able to generate instantly.

Hi Everyone,I'm just new to Adobe Robohelp 2019 and was given a source zipped file and have no idea how to start to open to edit documents.I'm just new in the company and the person i replaced resigned without passing the information to me.Appreciate any help the community can provide.Thanks and more power to the community.

Hi guys , i have a problem with a project that RoboHelp doesn't compile.This Project is the biggest we have , and when i compile the CHM file RH don't compile and don't create the file CHM.In particular RH compile and when arrive and the end don't create the CHM file.The process string are :Starting compilation...Compiling C:\FAQ\!chm_tmp_folder_0\NC-Contabilità.chm...Preparing to create HTMLHELP...Clearing output folder...Preparing files for HTML Help...Copying file...Updating files...Finished preparing in 144 sec(s)Initilizing compiler...Generating HTMLHELP (14.0.2.016)...Updating Topics...Updating 00_GestioneContabile.htm...and RH go ahead with the another files htm we have but and the end TH says :Warning : The Size of stop file has to be limited in 512 bytes...C:\FAQ\!chm_tmp_folder_0\NC-Contabilità.hhpFinished compiling HTMLHELP in 179 sec(s)Compilation Complete.But RH don't compile all the files and he doesn't make the output files.This project is the hugest that we have , with

I'm trying to create thumbnails for our screen shots. I followed the instructions that Peter Grainge has on his website at RoboHelp Tour. I did notice at the bottom of the Peter's page he says there is an expand.png and a modal-close.png file in the layouts folder. I cannot locate these files. I used the same settings that Peter used on his page for the Thumbnail style, applied it to the graphic and then produced the RHTML5 including the thumbnail style (and size of 100x100) to the on the first settings page of the Output SSL. I don't know if I am missing a step or doing something wrong. Do the expand.png and modal-close.png files get created when you create thumbnails or are these in the Layout folder already? Am I missing a step or files or using an incorrect process?

I must be missing something: how do I delete *all* the map IDs (context sensitive help folder in the output setup pod) without having to *individually select the ID, press 'remove map ID', and answer 'Yes' to 'are you sure...' dialog*. I know this must be possible otherwise the thousands of map IDs I have will take hours to delete manually (way faster to just re-create the entire project from scratch). I want to re-generate (via automap) after changing the starting number of prefix...I'm working with RH2019 *Classic* (since non-classic is incredibly broken) and I'm sure I was able to do this in both RH2015/RH2017 by selecting all of the map IDs and then deleting (and only answering 'yes' to the 'are you sure...' prompt once ).Thanks in advance.

Hi..I'm trying to integrate 2 different responsive HTML5 outputs in our application as per the application theme selected by user, i.e. dark and light in my case.I've created and published 2 different outputs for dark and light theme in RH2017. Currently only single output has been implemented and calls are made by using rhmapid. Is there any way to conditionally call different published outputs as per the theme selected by appending the custom parameters to the calling URL, for ex. appending url with something like &theme=dark/light. Or anybody knows any other ways to do it. Also do I need to maintain the separate files for both the outputs always, isn't there a way to use the same files for both the themes just by using separate CSS files?