RoboHelp

Hello,We're looking to move from old winhelp (.hlp) projects made with an old (circa 1998) version of Robohelp, to html-based webhelp made with RoboHelp 11. I was amazed to see that you could import a winhelp project by specifying an hpj file. The conversion seem to go ok, but most of the entries in the new table of contents looked like they were trying to go to some other chm file (which is weird since we didn't use chm files before and I wasn't converting to chm based help). The TOC links are labeled as "Remote URLs" instead of local html files. For some reason it looks like it's treating most of the topics on the TOC as external topics, which they are not. Has anyone seen this before and know an easy fix?Many thanks,-Keith

I have a few questions/issues regarding screen layouts for Responsive HTML5 output in RoboHelp HTML 11. First off, I decided to just use the Theme1_Standard layout that came with the program (only other default option was Theme2_Government) and started customizing the layout. I originally added a company logo to the 'Header' component in the Customization dialog, but have since decided to remove it. I can't seem to do this from the dialog, so I tried just deleting the image file from the whole project. The file is gone, but the logo is still there. This is only displayed in the header when a topic is displayed, it does not appear in the header at the TOC, Index, Search screen, etc. How do I get rid of this???Secondly, the text in the header for the topic screens appears differently than the one on the screens for the TOC, Index, Search, etc. In the former of these, the header is displayed in maroon text in a much smaller font, similar to that used in the topics. In the latter, the topi

I generated with Responsive HTML5, using the layout Theme 1_Standard. After generating and previewing I notice that the header title font changes color between red, white and blue depending upon where you click in the generated project. I have been through all the settings and cannot find a way of preventing this - I want the title to be white and not change color. Looking at the HTML for each topic it looks like this is driving it:/*<![CDATA[*/A:visited {    color: #ff0000;}A:active {    color: #008000;}A:link {    color: #0000A0;}/*]]>*This seems to be overriding the header title font color that I picked in Theme 1_Standard.Does anyone know how to turn this off? Please and thank you!

I have Robohelp 10 and when I click File>Import, the Map File choice is grayed out.

I am using Robohelp HTML version 11 and publishing with WebHelp. Many of my topics have tables in them which display as expected in Preview mode and when published, but when these topics are printed, I am having an issue.  The issue is that any table that extends across a printed page changes width.  For example, if a printed topic is two pages long and a table extends from the first page to the second page, the table will actually be less wide on the second page than it was on the first page. This occurs when using the Print button that I added to the Navigation Bar of the WebHelp skin we are using.

I'm using RoboHelp HTML 11, and I want to use single source images of icons in text, so that I have the ability to update the source image, as needed, and all instances of the image are updated automatically. The look is as follows:I've tried snippets, but they force a paragraph return in the text which I don't want.I tried inserting the source code for an image into a variable, but when I inserted the variable into the text, I got an error message in the text.Is there a way to use variables to do this or some other method?Thanks.

Hi all.I need to publish on a shared folder for my colleague to view my work. Can anyone guide me in the right direction please?

Hi Everyone,Has anyone had a problem with TFS and RH10 where RH will not allow you to create a new topic?

Hi,My IT department just upgraded me to a faster machine Windows 7 however my RH8 HTML displays my Project Manager et al pods in Ariel 8pt. I know I can adjust the topic font size from the View option, however, has anyone figured out how to change the font size elsewhere on the workspace? My css works fine in my output. It's just my workspace view.ThanksJan

I have a huge project containing 33 folders and around 20,000 htm files. I build a chm file and there's a duplicate of every file in the chm temp folders. If I try to do a search on the entire project, it searches those folders too. I'm wondering if I can delete those temp files without screwing up my project. Thanks.

I am using Robohelp 10 and currently working on Context Sensitive Help in which there is a need to create certain links for the topics that are present in Webhelp. My area of concern is that we can't use map id's since CS Help and Webhelp had already been created and it will be a mess for developers too since they had to relook their code. While generating output we don't give js files to our developers, we just give them folders and css file. Considering all these points,  is there any way to provide a link for a topic of Help in Context Sensitive Help? Anyone, Please Help !

We have a customer's security team objecting to the files because of an issue with their "Overly Permissive Message Posting Policy." An example:Has anyone else run into this, and is there anything we can do to reduce the threat assessment?

Hello,In RoboHelp 11, every time I generate Printed Documentation (Word), my master page header/footer appears on the Title Page. It doesn't appear on RoboHelp's default title page, but it appears when I use a topic as a Title Page or when I navigate to a Word doc Title Page in Print Document Section Layout.In the Print Document General - Content section, Multiple Header/Footer, <Default Title Page>, I select <None> for First Page (Apply to all pages in the section).In the Print Document Section Layout, I thought RoboHelp automatically rendered anything placed above the TOC as the Title Page, but for some reason, it's seeing my Topic Title Page and/or Word doc Title Page as just another page in the document and adding the header/footer to it.I think the last version of RoboHelp I used awhile back was 8 or 9, but I don't recall ever having this trouble adding a Title Page to a Printed document.Please help me troubleshoot this.Thank you!

I have a Merged RH8 Project that I need to upgrade to RH11.  Some content has been updated.  The links within a child project and to other child projects are not changing.  My question is:  Do I need to go through and update each link or will these be updated when I generate and publish the project?

I just started working with Responsive HTML5 in RoboHelp 11. I notice that on one machine my bookmarks appear in the sidebar of the Responsive HTML5 output. However, when I move the output to a different machine and view it, the bookmarks are missing from the sidebar. Only the Contents icon appears from which I can access the pages individual pages. What do I need to do to ensure that the bookmarks appear regardless of the PC on which it runs? Thanks!

HiWe are using RH11 with version control (two of us have licences to use RH) I am wanting to assign Map IDs in our project. I created the map number, but when I go to assign it to a topic, I get the the following message."The files in the list below could not be checked out from version control. Exclusive access to these files is required to execute the selected action"The file in the list that it is referring to has the extension .aliIs this saying that because there are two of us with RH that can access the project that I can't do this? Or is it because of the version control I cannot do this? I don't really understand why? I am hoping there is an expert who can enlighten me!Thanks, Louise

I am using Robohelp 9 and when I generate my webhelp output, which of the files are the index files? I understand that the index file is the .hhk file in the project folder but where does that file go when I compile?

When mapping for context-sensitive Webhelp, which of these two files should be used?

Hi,I need to create an instance of my RoboHelp project. Is there any feature like Save As or Save Project As.

‌Note pressing the screen does nothingPS I think Adobe is treating the IPad like a Mobile phone, following selecting a prompt that I could not back out of.

Does anyone have links for custom webhelp toc icon design sites? After much reading & searching, I can't find any, either free or to buy. In 2009 there was a RoboHelp Exchange. There is an Adobe Skin page, but nothing for Robohelp. I've read Helps, checked the Skins folder, viewed the Gallery options. I'm not a creative designer and would prefer to select them. I only need the buttons, but would consider skins also.Thank you

Tried importing .xpj file from RoboHelp 10 into RoboHelp 11.  TOC, Index and Glossary imported but not showing anything under Project Files (the main topics).  What is missing?  I thought importing the .xpj file contained everything RoboHelp needed to replicate the project.

So we've finally got TCS5 loaded & patched now here at my work and have started playing with it. I've already confirmed that there was a new bug in RH11's treatment of CSS files in the generated help output (see Re: What I see in the CSS is not what displays in the HTML -- why?), but I knew I could handle that when I got to that point.So testing the import of upgraded (FM11 to FM12) books and their import into a new RH11.0.4.291 project, I'm noticing some strange behaviour in RH11 - mainly, it seems to choke on any more than 50-some FM docs/books being imported! Any more than that and the project seems to come out the other end of the process thinking it's all done, when it hasn't put anything in the Project Manager pod or even in the project's folder in Explorer.Here's what I've noticed watching the Output View pane:- it shows the FM docs being converted - much chugging through each file name (Converting (X of Y)"doc name") accompanied by a little graphic progress bar (BTW - havin

Hi there!I am trying to add different background images to the body of my topics. Since I want different backgrounds for different topics would created different master pages be the best option for that? If I do that I have the code in html as the following:<body <div="" style="background-image: url(robohelpdesigndemoonly2.png); width: 900px; height: 900px; background-repeatd: no=repeat;">I know very little about HTML coding so this is what I managed to gather from examples on the internet. Is this correct? Because whenever I preview the topic it is zoomed in but when I preview the file in IE it shows up just fine. I didn't know if there was an easy way to fix that or not. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks!

I have a FrameMaker 12 book comprising 31 FM files, and I have RH 11 as part of TCS5. All are patched up.From my FrameMaker files, I want to create only HTML files that use a single CSS, with the only added baggage being linked graphics. I don't want JavaScript or any framework. Is this possible, does RH support such simple output?