Question
Bugs, undocumented features, or my error?!
I am learning RoboHelp and have run into problems. Can
someone here explain if the problems I am running into are bugs in
the program or if I just cannot find the right instructions?
1. In the Topic List pod, I cannot get any menus to come up when I right-click a filename. But I can get context menus on all of the other pods.
2. Also in the Topic List pod: I cannot change how the list is displayed. It gives me a list view but will not give me any other view. I cannot change it from a filename.ext type of list. I can convert it for all of the relevant pods.
3. Why can’t I get multiple levels of topics in my help? If you look at these screenshots, the right arrow which would push the ”USB Adapter, Serial, and null modem topics out one level in the table of contents is greyed out.
If I try pushing the primary topic to the left it goes to the bottom of the list rather than sitting directly under the book title.
I have seen plenty of help systems with multiple levels of help in the table of contents to know it can be done.
(missing screenshots)
4. When I tried to make a template, I ran into a problem where I no longer got my topic title at the top of the page. Instead of retyping it, but there has got to be a way to auto-insert my file topic name into the heading. I suspect it has to do with conditional text, but I cannot find instructions on how to make it into a conditional text or even a variable like in FrameMaker.
I am running RoboHelp 7.01 on Windows XP.
Thanks,
Marjorie
1. In the Topic List pod, I cannot get any menus to come up when I right-click a filename. But I can get context menus on all of the other pods.
2. Also in the Topic List pod: I cannot change how the list is displayed. It gives me a list view but will not give me any other view. I cannot change it from a filename.ext type of list. I can convert it for all of the relevant pods.
3. Why can’t I get multiple levels of topics in my help? If you look at these screenshots, the right arrow which would push the ”USB Adapter, Serial, and null modem topics out one level in the table of contents is greyed out.
If I try pushing the primary topic to the left it goes to the bottom of the list rather than sitting directly under the book title.
I have seen plenty of help systems with multiple levels of help in the table of contents to know it can be done.
(missing screenshots)
4. When I tried to make a template, I ran into a problem where I no longer got my topic title at the top of the page. Instead of retyping it, but there has got to be a way to auto-insert my file topic name into the heading. I suspect it has to do with conditional text, but I cannot find instructions on how to make it into a conditional text or even a variable like in FrameMaker.
I am running RoboHelp 7.01 on Windows XP.
Thanks,
Marjorie
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