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Oct 2, 2019 11:12 AM UTC
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Locate button in HTML output

This was a great review Jared(Review at https://community.adobe.com/t5/RoboHelp/My-RoboHelp-2019-Review/m-p/10645169#M126594)and I agree with you on many of your topics! I'm pretty new to RoboHelp and I thought I'd just give it a shot and ask you a question of mine. I've just upgraded a project from RH Classic to "Re-imagined" and I have trouble getting the "locate"-button to appear in the HTML helpfile (after generating the output). I have already "clicked" the "locate"-box in the Window Settings. Is there something else I can do to make the "locate"-button appear in my output again (just like it does in the Classic version)?

I am really greatful for any answer you could give me.

Thanks,

K.

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    Peter Grainge
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    Oct 3, 2019 6:59 AM UTC

     

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    Oct 3, 2019 7:04 AM UTC
    Thank you!! 🙂
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    Peter Grainge
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    Oct 2, 2019 1:47 PM UTC

    @Jared Very different in 2019. If kajsaros reponds with it still not working I'll poke around some more.

     

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    Jared Hess
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    Oct 2, 2019 1:37 PM UTC

    @kajsaros1 - I don't know how much help I can be as I no longer have my RH 2019 trial. Also, it's been a couple of years since we switched from .chm outputs to HTML 5 outputs. I'm sure RH still has some kind of underlying xml file that controls the Window's properties. In Classic RH, this was in a file called rhwnd.apj. There, in the xml code, under the window's definition, they'd have a buttons tag:

     

    The value 12366 clears the Location check box.

    The value 14414 marks the Location check box.

     

    You might want to look into a similar file in Re-imagined version and and see if maybe something got messed up in that during the conversion of your project. Perhaps editing that directly will fix this issue. Good luck!

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    Peter Grainge
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    Oct 2, 2019 1:16 PM UTC

    Is the window selected in the preset the one with the locate button? I created a new window, ticked the check box and then selected the window. Locate button present.

     

     

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    Oct 3, 2019 6:35 AM UTC

    Yes! This worked. Thank you very much for your help!

     

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    Peter Grainge
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    Oct 2, 2019 11:44 AM UTC

    In Output mode, look at Window Settings > Window Properties. There is a Locate check box there.

     

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    Oct 2, 2019 12:04 PM UTC
    The check box is already "checked"...and still no locate-button appears in the generated helpfile. So that's why I'm asking if anybody might know what the problem is...
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    Peter Grainge
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    Oct 2, 2019 11:31 AM UTC

    kajsaros1 I have branched your post to a separate thread as it is more about a specific question that others might also have. In Jared's thread, it will get a bit lost.

     

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