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We are currently testing an export of Robohelp content into our new Translation Management System (TMS). We noticed that protected spaces are created from Robohelp. We have not yet found out when and why Robohelp creates these protected spaces. These then cause problems for us in the TMS during translation, as we sometimes get double spaces in the translation as a result. Attached is an example from us:We have created a text in RH2020. If we export it via copy & paste into Microsoft Word, the whole thing looks like this:All "°" symbols mean a protected space. We really need support on that topic. Thanks in advance.

Nice update! But: Converting projects from RH 2020.5 doesn't work?!Tried with our larger projects and with a mini test project as well - hangs on opening with "Reading files..." forever. What could be difficult or wrong?

HiI am using RH2020 Update 6.Is it possible to apply conditional tag to individual topic in the Related Topics list? 

I have migrated a project from RH2019 Classic to the standard one. When I generate the classic version, it generates all topics, regardless if they're linked or not (there are some orphan topics). When I generate the standard version, it doesn't generate the topics that has no links at all with the "Default Topic". Is there a way of generating all the files like it was generated in the classic version?I currently have RH 2019.0.11.

Hello,I am having an issue trying to sign in to re-register Adobe RoboHelp 11. Yesterday, IT made some changes to my Virtual Desktop. They had to migrate it. Yesterday, I was able to open RoboHelp without any issues. Today, I tried opening it and it showed the Trial screen and an option to enter the serial number. I clicked on the Sign In button and it shows that I am not connected to the internet. That is wrong, because I can open Chrome and browse around the internet. I tried chatting with Adobe support, because I think there is something wrong with their sign in process. They were not helpful and said they do not support older software. Has anyone run into this issue before? If so, how did you resolve this? If I can’t get it resolved, do I need to re-install RoboHelp again? Thanks,Andre Here are some screenshots of the issue.         

I am using the latest version of  RH and сan't find English words in the localized version of the documentation using default search engine. Has anyone faced such a problem. Is there a solution or the ability to connect a normal search engine.

when i set a text to right alignment keeps getting back to left alignment when close my Topic and reopen it again

We have a frameless output and we are using studio skin. Recently the web server has been moved to AWS/S3/Cloudfront technology. The online help works as expected from the new web technology.There is just one small issue when we publish subsequent help content updates.The existing user still sees the cached help files. The user has an option to manually clear the cache and then access the new help updates. But if we dont want the user to manually clear cache the dev team suggested adding a small code snippet in the header of all html help files. <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"><meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"><meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0">To manually add this to hundreds of html files is impossible. Is there a way to add it somewhere at one place inRobohelp and achieve this? Maybe the master page?Any thoughts/pointers?

I have a question from the dev team. I guess they only have the answer as it comes under dev area but just checking here.The application has a timeout for example 6 hrs. The help is integrated in the application.When the application timesout it asks the user to log in again as it signs out the user. What happens with the help is it does not allow further browsing or navigating to other topics once the timeout is exceeded. The testing team also noticed an instance where the toc remains intact but when the user tries navigating it shows error 403.The question from the dev team is from within RH do we have any way of handling timeout scenarios?

HiI am using RH10, TCS4 and am publishing to WebHelp. I create custom skin as per our branding guidelines and share it with my team.I am aware of deselecting the Glossary checkbox from the WebHelp Output settings. But is there a way I remove it from the custom skin itself so that they will have one task less to do while publishing the output?Sreekanth

Hello, having a mysterious issue..I have a subproject with chm output.I modify a topic, eg add a carriage return.compile it.the 'show result' button doesn't show my modification.I erase the old chm file in my target directory, compile again, still the same old chm file is produced.I'm flabbergasted...the file date is not corresponding to the date of today neither. I open the htm page with the modifciation in the project dir, you can see the change. but the project is not compiled. what is happening here...best regardsOlivier

Adobe RoboHelp (2020 release) Update 6 contains Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a new Knowledge Base output preset, option to add separate headers and footers in a Word output, a new script to convert hyperlinks into cross-references, option for static header and footer in a Frameless output, a Glossary hotspot tool, search enhancements, CSS list editor enhancements, and bug fixes.   For more information, see What's new in RoboHelp (2020 release) Update 6.   Bugs fixed in this update   In this update, we’ve fixed bugs related to authoring, publishing, search, core application features, and performance. To see the list of bugs that are fixed, see Fixed issues.    Install Update 6  You can check your current version by going to the Help menu, the version will be shown at the bottom of the drop-down list.    If your version is 2020.0, you will not be able to update usi

Hi all,I'd like to customize the Red Green skin in  RoboHelp 2020. I changed the colors of the functionbar and sidebar. The changes are displayed as expected in the skin preview, but aren't applied in the output. I cleared the cache and tried different browsers but the results are the same; the changes don't seem to have been applied. Any suggestions?

Hello, encountered a issue...a kind of gordian knot. I have 30 chm files. all of them represent chapters in a composed 'mother of all' chm file. I compile all the chm's to a common directory. So far so good. BUT nearly all of my sub chm's are referrring to external chm's via the baggage files. So you can perfectly make 'cross references' by links. The links in the project files are pointing to 'old' chm's via paths, they are not updated automatically at a change. At every compilation of a sub chm, my newer chm's are overwritten by old ones in my common target directory.   My question is, how can I solve this...   Stop compiling to a common directory? note which luggage files are used for which sub chm and manually copy the most recent ones in the right directory? check all links in all files and edit them? If a fast fix would be available, I would appreciate! best regards Olivier  

We are pleased to announce the release of Adobe RoboHelp (2020 release) Update 6.    This update of Adobe RoboHelp introduces static header and footer for Frameless output, the option to apply and control header and footer from Master page for each page in the word output, Glossary Hotspot Tool, a script to convert hyperlinks to cross-references, enhanced list editor, search enhancements and performance improvement, AEM Knowledge Base Publishing and bug fixes.   For more information, see the following: What's New Fixed Issues   Please update RoboHelp today and give us your feedback. Note: If you are using 2020.0, see this thread to apply the update.

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Hi, I am currently working with the latest version of RoboHelp and have tried following the steps provided by Adobe on outputs and publishing. We want to generate an output and publish our work on Microsoft HTML. We have tried following steps but have no idea how to publish our work onto our software that we use. We understand how to use ''Contents'' and ''Table of Contents'' as well as importing and so on. However, we have not figured out how to simply take our work, generate the output and publish it onto our software system. We desperately need some guidance and help getting this done! Thanks!

For one of our project we had been using Rh2017 and generating Responsive HTML5 output. Now we have moved to RH2020 and for one last release we still need the Responsive HTMl5 output. we dont have Rh2017 anymore.I tried generating Responsive HTML5 output from Rh2020. The output comes out fine. everything works. However, the context-sensitive help calls are failing. It looks like it is not honoring the older tokens or is not able to search them in the map files.Does something change in the output that is generated from Rh2020 with regards to the map file?Any pointers on fixing this?I used the default responsive html5 output preset.

Hi AllI'm creating a help project in RH 2020 and created drop down text while in edit mode. When I display the created help files in browser, the drop down text open a new window, I want them to be displayed on the same browser window as drop down text. Any brilliant ideas to fix this? Regards

New to using RH2020. Struggling to generate output. I get a message that says, "Windows cannot find 'C:/RoboHelp Output/First_Topic.htm' " Not sure what to do next - attaching a couple of screen shots. 

While working on upgrading two separate projects from RoboHelp 2017 to RoboHelp 2019, one of my technical writers is receiving notification that "Upgrade has completed with issues."  The reported issue is this:Warning: Failed patching and copying CSS Dependencies from C:/Commissary/RHStyleMapping.css.Warning: Failed patching and copying CSS Dependencies from C:/Banking/RHStyleMapping.css.Both of these projects were originally created in RoboHelp 2017 by a person who is no longer with our company.  My writers (and I) are not particularly familar with CSS files.  (I did confirm that the RHStyleMapping files involved are not identical, but aside from the 114KB and 111KB file sizes, I have not delved into line-by-line details).The "upgraded" versions display no TOC, no indices, no glossary, no topics or contents of any sort.I am not certain where the problem lies with these projects.  Other projects created by this same former writer were successfully converted.  I

For ADA compliance external links should have an indicator that the link is an external link, and will move the user off the current site. I do not see a reference on how to program this in RoboHelp 2020 or in prevsious discussions. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to include this indicator?

Hi Team,We are using Robohelp 2020 Version 4 in our organization.The Microsoft HTML Help output right side window is not fit correctly as the output generated from the earlier versions.I have tried creating a new window but still, the issue persists and also i had tried reducing the height px and width px in Window settings > Window placement but it is not getting reflected in the output. Please find the below image I had pointed out the window misplaced as compared to the correct one left side.Could you please help me to resolve this issue? Thanks and Regards,Saravanan M

Robohelp 2019 I am working on creating a glossary. How can I change how it looks on the various outputs. Here is a couple examples of what I am trying to do.  Use the enter fuction when inputing the definition. If I imput say:Term123The output will be: Term123 How to get it to recognize new paragraph.  How to bold the term?How to indent the defintion? Basically how do I get things like the editing side bar in normal sections.  

Hi guys,Recently upgraded to RH 2020. Some of the Map IDs are not working in the CHM file. I get the following error:This page can’t be displayedMake sure the web address //ieframe.dll/dnserrordiagoff.htm# is correct.Look for the page with your search engine.Refresh the page in a few minutes.I can navigate to these help pages in the CHM, and they open without any issues. No changes were made in the code. When I replacecd the new chm with the old chm in the software, the mapped pages open fine. I am stuck now, not sure what to do next or even how to diagnose the problem.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.