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Under certain circumstances, when navigating through the TOC in landscape or mobile mode (using Chrome and other browsers), extra space is added between certain books, depending on the order of the navigation, making the spacing inconsistent.From what I can tell, when this occurs, the extra space is called by the following html (according to Chrome Inspect):  <li class=“child max-height-transition show” … However, where the space is hidden, as it should be, I get the following html:  <li class=“child max-height-transition” … In addition to the lack of “show”, the second html also activates the following CSS:  div.toc-holder ul li.child:not(.show) {    overflow-x: hidden;  }The latter behavior appears correct. However, for some reason RH is failing to hide the <li> class at certain times in landscape or mobile mode. Has anyone run into a similar issue? If so, have you come up with a resolution or at least figures out the cause?Thanks.

Please bear with me, this is a bit messy due to the complexity of my troubleshooting in implementing Twisties.I’ve been trying to implement the Twisty functionality for dropspots and expandspots in our RH2015 help projects and have come across several issues that I’m in need of support. Our ultimate goal is to have a single button or link at the top of each topic that expands and collapses all twisties in a topic.I’ve tried implementing this functionality based on this post by Willam Van Weelden:http://iconlogic.blogs.com/weblog/2013/07/adobe-robohelp-working-with-twisties.htmlAfter setting my two image files for the twisties, the url’s are defined in the Description section of the Styles dialog box:I click Apply, but once I click OK I get a Save As dialog box:There’s nothing in Willam’s instructions regarding this dialog box, and I don’t know why I’m supposed to save a file or what the file is. Is this something new to RH 2015?The default file type is HTML but you can also select the

My supervisor ran into a problem when trying to load one of our projects for our website. Here's what she said:"...when trying to upload new help into our webstorage, I get stopped by the RH file…I’m wondering if it has to do with this little file with the lock icon..." (the .ldb file)Could that be causing the problem?Thanx!Lon

I'm using trial versions of RoboHelp 2015 and RoboHelp Server 10. We've used the previous version of RoboHelp and RoboHelp Server to publish our help for quite some time. Our software is moving to be available to be viewed on various devices so we are trying to test publishing responsive HTML 5 to the RoboHelp server.When we attempt to publish the project we get one of two errors  "Publishing has been aborted. The FTP session was terminated." or " Failed to publish to "TEST_EM". Reason: The FTP session was terminated." We have attempted this on two different author machines and can't get past it.Steps:We set up a server with RoboHelp 10 installed.We created a test project with RoboHelp 2015 with a responsive HTML 5 layout.We might be filling in the Server Directory field wrong but the documentation does not at all mention how to publish responsive HTML 5 to the RoboHelp server, or if it does, it doesn't match the actual screens. When you select a new destination, you get the follo

We have an established RH Server 9 that we want to upgrade to RH Server 10. Because we are migrating from an older box with a 32-bit OS, our IT team does not want to upgrade to RH 10 on the same box because of the complexity involved in upgrading a 32-bit server OS to a 64-bit OS.There are update-in-place capabilities with RH Server using the Configuration Tool and with Server 10 there's a tool to migrate server 10 data to a new box, but there's no automated process for upgrading while migrating.So, this means that I must first install Server 9 on the new box, manually migrate the Server 9 data and then upgrade in place to Server 10.We use SQL Server instead of Access but I haven't migrated the SQL data yet because that should be relatively straightforward. And, quite honestly, I could live without keeping the usage data and metrics. It's the help project data that's not working well. I've had partial success (the various help areas are there but there are no help projects within the r

Hi,I am using RH 11, and am about to explore the possibilities offered by the WebHelp, and I was wondering if it would be possible to have a Home button inside the Web documentation which would point to the first topic when the documentation is opened.I did not see as control elements possibilities anything but Index, Glossary, and Search.Thank you

Hi everybody,I have RH 11 on a Win7 Professional machine.I have 2 projects sharing a folder with topics and images.I went to the Head Office with my laptop and did some changes on a copy of the project, and when I returned home I overwrote everything, i.e. topics & images into the shared folder, and the project themselves. However since then I receive notifications to update the shared resources, and I did so the first time, only to find out that I was taken back to a previous version of the shared resources, so right now I always receive this message as I open any one of my projects, and it is quite annoying. Also I cannot quite use the functionalities of the shared resources (synchronize shared resources).Does anyone know how I could "reset" those shared resources to the "now" state?Thank you,Bogdan Marin

Hi all. I'm just now experimenting with a trial copy of RH Server 9.ISSUE: When I attempt to log in to the Web Administrator (pictured below) with admin/admin for ID/pwd, nothing happens when I click the Sign In button.Notes: My IT guy says that this is likely an Apache-side issue, since 3 different browsers are showing the same behavior. He's not sure how to fix the issue though.I'm running RH Server on a Win 7 VM on my Win 7 laptop.The VM system has Tomcat 6.0.41 installed.Any thoughts on what might be going on would be greatly appreciated.

Problem: When I generate Responsive HTML5 output using a conditional build expression, there is not TOC in the output. I know the right content is included in/excluded from the output based on searches that I perform in the output. The only problems seems to be there is no TOC. What could be causing this issue?Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!Dawn

Hi All,I am facing issue in publishing my project. While I am publishing the Project using "WebHelp" i am see two entries are creating in Projects section under the "Web Server Administrator". Due to this issue I am not able to see the content. I have created another Area (Instead of Journal) but it is not the default area setup hence I have to give "area" Name as well as Context ID.Kindly help me in fixing the issue;

When I created PDF from RH topic, images are larger than the page border. So, what's the best size in RH for PDF output, or RH isn't the best choice for single-sourcing?

We recently upgraded to RoboHelp 2015, but it seems that many some of our users are running into a problem when search our published Webhelp system using IE 11: They will search a term and the results field will display: "Error: Failed to load xml file". This is happening sporadically. Some users can refresh their screen and the search problems will go away. For others it persists. For some people the problem will go away when we republish the system, only to find someone else with the problem the next day. I can't seem to replicate it on my machine.Any ideas what it might be? I've updated to the latest version (12.0.3.428) and this problem does not exist in Chrome.Thanks,Greg

Hi allI've been reading and re-reading the following discussion but I still cannot get my ISF style mapping settings to work when I import FM files.Using FM13 and RH2015Re: ISF Export I've also looked at Peter Grainge's "gotcha" on his website.The steps I take are as follows:1. Create blank project in RH2. Under Project Settings, Import tab, select Browse and select the *.isf file that I exported from a previous project, which contains all the style mappings between FM and RH.3.  The CSS that I created for that project is also brought in at this point.4. I do not click Edit under FrameMaker document, as I want to use the mappings in the *.isf file.5. I click Apply, then OK.6. I then select Import Framemaker file from the menu and select a single fm file.7. In the Import dialog, I reselect the *.isf file that I selected before (though I would have expected it to be selected already as I chose it in Project Settings). I get the message "File "xx.css" already exist. Do you want to ov

Hi all,When importing files from Framemaker, a new CSS is created for each file. Why is this? Is there any easy and quick way to delete them all together? Or should I not delete them? I want all my topics to use the same CSS - so I can't see the point of having these just to clutter up the Stylesheets folder.It's not just a CSS either, each new topic appears in its own folder under HTML files in the Project Manager, all the images, baggage files, multimedia etc all contain folders with the same name as the topics. Is there any way I can prevent these being created?Thanks in advanceLaura

Hi allI'm using Robohelp 2015 and I need to have both online and PDF/Word output.I've been working with the Master Page functionality in Robohelp and it works pretty well for Word output, but I cannot find anywhere how to set up Chapter numbering for the Word output.I have created a header in a master page that contains "Chapter    : <<PD Chapter Name>>, but I cannot work out how to put in chapter numbers that will auto-generate, so that it would say "Chapter 1: Introduction" (for example).I thought of inserting a field but there do not seem to be any for Chapter numbers, just things like dates etc.Can anyone help?Thanks in advanceLaura

Hi guys,Is it possible to make CSH calls within a merged help project without hard coding the full web address in the link?For example, in a topic I want to link to a search topic which exists in a project for functions common across all modules.At the moment I just insert a link following Peter Grainge's source project set (described on his website, but modified slightly to work with Multiscreen HTML5).I was thinking maybe it was possible to create the links using CSH Topic ids as this would solve a number of issues if we ever need to support more than the desktop output (long story why we aren't using Responsive HTML5 and not something I can change in the short term). However, I seem to need to specify the full web address, which means the links are incorrect when I publish to our review environment.Instead of inserting my link as:http://mydomain.com/index.htm?rhcsh=1?&rhmapid=SEARCHTOOLI'm hoping to enter the link something like:rhmapid=SEARCHTOOLAnd have it just do the CSH call

Hi all, I'm brand new to using Robohelp 11. I'm converting a small project from Framemaker into help, as a trial.I'm using RH11 and FM 13 from TCS5.When I import some files from Framemaker, I go to Project Settings, click Edit under Framemaker and am able to map FM to RH styles fine.Then I do some generation, work some more on the project, go back in to the same dialog, and the + sign beside each of the FM styles is no longer there. So I am now unable to make any style changes (for example, I want to change the colour of my Heading 1 style in RH).Can anyone tell me why this is happening or what I have done?!Any help gratefully received.ThanksLaura

My topic titles are not sorting correctly in the Search Tab.  I've included a screen shot, so you can understand.  What controls the sort here?The topic title matches the H1 header inside the topic.  Wth?Shannon

Dear,I was using RoboHelp 8.0 for our help file compiling, in the past time, I was using HTML Help for all my applcations. Now I want to create a WebHelp for my apllication, I got a problem while browse the help contents. Here is my problem, in contents, there are many books in there, when I select one page in book "Get Started" and then click a hyperlink in this page, it should go to the page "Creating a blank system" under the book "Creating a System' and it go there indeed, my problem here is that the left pannel the contents, there is no change, it still stay in "Get Started" book, it cannot redirect to book "Creating a System' ->"Creating a blank system". would you please guide me how to fix it, this is very important for me I think.I need to let you know this works well for HTML help(.chm).thanks for your help,NgCC

Hi,I am trying to find the API to set the style in RoboHelp Script. In the Clean Project Example (as in the following code snippet), it shows how to find a undefined style and remove that style. In this case, instead of token.removeAttribute("style"), is it possible to set a style, for example, a paragraph tag, say "body". Also, is it possible to find a paragraph tag, say "Normal", and replace it with "body" paragraph tag.if(token.tokenType == RoboHelp.TokenType.TOKENTAG){//Does this token have style attribute?if(token.getAttribute("style") != ""){//This token has a style attribute. Now remove the style attribute.token.removeAttribute("style");}}Thanks.

Help please. What am I doing wrong?We have RH11 and publish output as webhelp. Someone in the company gave me permission for a sharepoint site so I could implement version control, but we are having all sorts of trouble. I am not a sharepoint user, so I'm fumbling in the dark. My RH and Doc-To-Help version control experience is based on using a system someone else has already created for me.I thought this would be easy and sold my team on the idea, but now team members are overwriting each other all the time. We cannot seem to lock a project so that no one else can edit/overwrite. We get messages on a topic level that we do not have permission to work on them, but we want the entire project to be locked. Also, another team member keeps opening files from SharePoint site instead of from their local drive.Where is detailed information on best practices for setting up and using RH version control system with SharePoint? Are there options I need to turn on or off? Are there options on the

Hi, Is there a way to disable the Unicode options that are displayed in the search text box when the right mouse button is pressed, namely "Show Unicode control characters" and "Insert Unicode control characters" etc?

Robohelp 2015. Can I make two different styles of drop-down hotspots available? For example, could I have regular drop-down hotspots italic but a special class of drop-down hotspots roman--without resorting to inline styling?Hoping for a solution within RoboHelp, but I'm open to ideas for CSS.

Dear readers,For a project I need Robohelp 2015 to convert a Word 2010 text containing numbered section headers (1. Heading1, 1.1. Heading2, etc.). I would like Robohelp to generate separate topics for each of these headers. For un-numbered headers (Word default) this works fine, for the numbered headers I get one single topic with the headers converted to bookmarks. Anyone knows how to make Robohelp generate separate topics for each numbered header?I use Robohelp 2015 on Windows 10 Pro.Many thanks in advance!

Using: RoboHelp 10, version 10.0.0.287Steps to reproduce issue:1. Click File > Generate > Primary Layout (Multiscreen_HTML5)2. In Generate window click [Save and Generate]3. Wait4. Click [View Results]5. Results show entire sections of the TOC duplicated in other sections.  Its taking 10 plus times to repeat the generation before all of the TOC items are correct and I can publish.  It's not stopping me from getting the job done, but it's certainly a time killer.  Background: I inherited a working version.  I did not create it.  I have more than basic knowledge of HTML, but I'm not a developer.  I do not have the option to upgrade beyond RH10.  I have researched this multiple times, but have not been able to find any fix.  The only other thing I have seen occasionally are error messages related to toctree.js file, but I don't always get those.  Even when I don't, this still happening, but I have included that error just in case it may b