RoboHelp

I thought of using WebHelp to publish the online documentation, but then I noticed that there is also the Microsoft HTML Help layout. It doesn't publish an HTML document but something else. Can I use that instead of the WebHelp? What I am trying to do is there will be a link in our site and then when they click it the HTML help file will pop up. Any information you could provide would be very helpful. Thank you!

RoboHelp 2015.In the WebHelp Settings you can select "Enable Highlighting in Search Results".If you do not select the check box, the field does not appear in the WebHelp output.We chose not to select this option because the highlighted results often make the Help topic very cluttered and hard to read.However, now the user doesn't even have the option of using the feature.Does anyone know of any way to enable this option, but enable it with the check box empty (not selected)?Thanks.Carol Levine

When I use Responsive HTML5 Output none of my child index topics will load.All Index entries load in WebHelp format. This little icon will turn all day long…nothing comes up in my INDEX. Here is what I get in Responsive HTML5 Parent Project

Hi all,Trying to figure out if RH 2015 is capable of managing cross references. I have hyperlinks in my topics that I want to be cross references in word and give me page numbers when I generate. Not much use having a hyperlink on a piece of paper.Only search items I found seem to turn up posts from years ago about using word macros to do it. Any ideas?Thanks,Nick

I am using RoboHelp 9 and IE11. I tried to compile my project using WebHelp as my primary layout. When it opens I see that the TOC and topics are listed on the left, but when I click to allow blocked content, all of a sudden the TOC and topics disappeared. I do not know how I can make them show up. Here is the screenshot of what I get. Please help. Thank you!

I am using TCS 2015, of course with my writing done in FrameMaker and the Webhelp done in Robohelp, with all the FM files linked in RH. What are the best practices for implementing See Also references in RH? When I use the See Also pod, the topics are deleted when I update the linked files. I assume I have to do something in particular in FM, but I am struggling to figure out what.Thanks,Marc

Hi guys,Just wondering if anyone can share their strategies for ensuring variables, snippets, stylesheets, skins, conditional tags etc stay synchronised between multiple projects with multiple authors?Do you have an automated process? Use the sharing feature? Designate one person to manage the admin side and update all projects on a regular basis?I'm gathering ideas for how to manage this with the assumption that the other writers will not be technical.Thanks in advance

What do I need to do for my Parent/Child project to compile with this Search option box checked by default?Mike

Hi all,Can it be done in RH 2015? I've set up my own title page by using a word doc, but I want more than just a company logo and doc name in the title page. I want to add version numbers using variables and I want to be able to set a variable in the text as well as the product name changes slightly with different versions. Is it possible?Thanks,Nick

I had an english project the generated a.CHM file on output. When opening that CHM it looked likeI had an english project the generated a.CHM file on output. When opening that CHM it looked likeNow after generating the german version the help chm starts with an opened contents tree already.Where in the course of building the CHM in Robohelp can I influence how this tree opens at start?--Christoph

I have a parent/child project currently in Webhelp with 1 Parent 30 Children (with more on the way). I just upgraded to RoboHelp 2015.  I want to compile the project for Responsive HTML5.  Will the "Customized Selected Layout" settings I choose in the Parent project be the default for all the Child projects?  If so, that would be great. If not, I suppose I am going to have to be sure to duplicate all the settings on each Child project, correct?

So, I am new to FrameMaker, but not to RoboHelp (been using it since 1994).We have linked out User Guide FrameMaker book to a RoboHelp project. I generated the first update of the book to the RH project using the Force Update All. and now I see the cross reference content comes across as expected, but the hyperlink tags of the cross reference are lost. The text is formatted to LOOK like a hyperlink, but the aref tabs are missing.I have been told that is a known issue and that I need to recreate them manually in the RH topics. There are over 300. I am beside myself. Can anyone confirm that this does not work as I expected? I just cannot believe that this is not imported with the hyperlink - or maybe it is that I just don't want to recreate 300+ hyperlinks in my source project.ANY help/confirmation would be greatly appreciated.

Large Merged Project. I do not understand how search works in a merged project. Sometimes one term does not pull up topics from all the projects, which confuses my users. For example, only one project responds correctly when a user types forms, for example. If I type "forms" (with the quote marks), it behaves more like I would expect, but this is something extra to teach my users that is inconsistent with other terms. I cannot find any reason for this behavior. All the projects appear to have same settings. Often these missing topics already have forms as part of their heading 1. I have tried to force the missing topics to show by adding forms to keywords. This is just one example. Why does this happen and how can I control it?

Starting compilation...Mobile App preprocessor 12.0.0.306Clearing output folder...Compiling c:\Users\h118005\Desktop\Mobile App\!SSL!\Mobile_App\index.html ...Preparing to create Mobile App output...Preparing files for Mobile App output...Copying files...Updating files...Finished preparing in 3 sec(s)Initializing compiler...Generating Mobile App 1.00 (12.0.0.306)...Processing TOC data...Updating topics...Updating First_Topic.htm...Updating New_Topic1.htm...Updating New_Topic2.htm...Finished updating topics in 1 sec(s) : total 3 topic(s).Processing index data...Processing glossary data...Processing full-text search data..............Finished processing full-text search data in 0 sec(s)Processing context-sensitive help data...Applying screen layout page (Topic) to topics...Finished compiling Mobile App output in 5 sec(s)Generating Zip...Uploading Mobile App To Phone Gap Build Server...App Upload Success.Building the App on the serverUploading Mobile App To Phone Gap Build Server Failed.I

The Expand/Collapse option on my new RoboHelp 2015 > Projects menu > View section is disabled/grayed out all the time. I cannot use it for the Table of Contents panel. The Help file doesn't cover anything about it. What is wrong with this?

In Robohelp 10, can you make a form within Robohelp, free standing, that can include calculations or formulas?  For example, for verification an Account number is needed and the person selects Fail, meaning the customer couldn't verify the account number, the form will then calculate and say 2 more items are need to complete verification?  Just don't know where to go to see if we can do that in Robohelp 10.  Any help would be appreciated!

I am using RoboHelp 9.0.2.271 inside of TCS 3.5 on the following Dell laptop characteristics:I build HTML CHM help files. I have many times used Hyperlink/Popups for users to view a picture of what is being discussed underneath it. As illustrated below, the "grey colored lines" link should bring up the picture below it. This is a screen cap from the View Selected Item command on the tool bar. That is why you can see it here.I first save it using the Display in frame option, then reopen it and change it to Display in custom sized popup, giving it a proper size.I then save all, and produce the CHM file. Opening the chm file and clicking on the link brings up this error box.I then click on the Hyperlink/Popup above it in the previous paragraph and that picture displays OK.I check the Hyperlink/Popup properties and it is virtually the same. The jpg files are both in the RoboHelp Projects directory I am working this page in.Switching to HTML code view... both hyperlinks look the same.There

We have been using RoboHelp off/on for client projects for a decade, but these tools usually sit behind a corporate firewall so the help file itself is never exposed to the Internet. We have an application we are launching soon and we want to ensure that only authenticated users can access the Help File as well as the Training File (which is actually a separate RH file).The primary goal is this:When a User logs into the main application, there is a Help File link on the top navigation ribbon. When the User clicks this button, it opens a new tab in the User's browser so they can navigate the Help File. .Our goal is to ensure that the contents of the Help File are restricted to authenticated users only.This means that the Help File can only be accessed in two ways:General Access. Basically, the idea is, if the User launched the Help file from the application, we could use the security token to automatically log them in and simply open the Help file - the user wouldnt need to log in a sec

I'm trying to force the WebHelp browse sequence buttons to behave like the forward and back buttons in a CHM. I've added the buttons and modified the java script files per the RoboWizard's instructions. The buttons show up and work correctly, but the button appearance is not consistent.What I mean is, sometimes when navigating to the next topic the previous button will show the disabled icon and the next button will show the enabled icon. You can still click the previous button (disabled icon) to navigate to the previous topic but you can't click the next button (enabled icon) because you're at the end of the list. This behavior is inconsistent in regards to where you are in the table of contents, but it is consistent in which specific topics show which button. I've moved topics around and compiled multiple versions. The same topics show the same (incorrect) enable/disabled icons in each build.I'm currently using the same icon for enabled and disabled as a temporary fix. Does anyone ha

Hello! I'm using RoboHelp 9, attempting to publish a project as WebHelp Pro from my local drive to a shared drive. It worked once, but is now giving me a strange error (which I've seen previousl):I've just rebooted and am running no other instances of RoboHelp, nor can I think of any reason the .cpd file is being accessed by another program. I have confirmed that the .cpd is in the source folder. What am I missing? What am I doing wrong?!Thanks in advance.

I would like to change the auto list numbers from the formatting tab. I need to change the color and the font. I have made a new numbered list, but it's a nuisance to have to keep picking it from the Styles all the time.

Has anyone used RoboHelp 2015 with Symantec TFA (Two Factor Authentication) ??

AFTER DELETING THE .CPD FILE I TRIED TO REOPEN THE PROJECT AND I GO THE SAME ERROR MESSAGES ENDING WITH THIS ONE BELOW

The idea was to have topics that would show some of their sections in the table of contents but bookmarking the level-2 headings; however, those topics, when compiled, became books. Not something we can't live with, but it isn't what we'd planned.Any way to keep topics with bookmarks as topics, instead of turning into books?thanx!Lon

Hi Everyone,I am really frustrated right now, and am ready to throw RH out the window.   I am using RH 10 [10.0.1.292] on Windows 7 Professional with SP1 and 16GB of RAM. There have been no major changes to my computer other than the standard patches/updates that are routinely pushed down to us at work. I have not installed any new software.I have been working on the same project file for the last 6-9+ months. I have not changed directories. I have not changed file names. I have not changed computers. My build from September 25, 2015, (which was our most recent product release) looked and worked beautifully.However, on January 8, 2016, I updated our copyright date and made one or two other typo fixes, and then did another build. Apparently this is when everything went haywire. MOST (but, curiously enough, not ALL,) of the graphics within my chm file had been replaced with the "broken link/missing graphic" symbol. Here is a sample:The really bizarre thing is each and every graphic,