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May 5, 2011
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Conditional build tag invalid?

  • May 5, 2011
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Hello everyone!

I'm using RoboHelp 9 and I had to add a new conditional build tag to my documentation yesterday.

It's not the first time I had to do this since switching to RoboHelp 9 and it never was problematic.

However, when I try to create a document now, RoboHelp tells me that this new build tag is invalid.

I googled and searched but I cannot even find this error message anywhere on the net.

Does anybody know what might cause this error and how I can fix it?

Thank you very much in advance!

Louisa

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RoboColum_n_
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May 5, 2011

Hi Louisa,

Can you tell us the name of the CBT you are trying to create? Is the error being generated when you create the CBT, applying it to some content or building a CBT expression? Also are there any other CBTs in this project? Is the problem only in one project? Sorry for all the questions but we haven't got a lot to go on.


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Louisa_deAuthor
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May 5, 2011

Hi!

No, questions are good! Thank you for them!

I don't think I can tell you the name due to confidentiality issues.  But I can tell you it's capitalized, consists of 37 characters, 5 of them being _ and it's by far not the only (nor the longest) cbt in the document. It's one of over 100.

I have only tried entering the cbt in this project because I only need it in this project.

Does that help?

Otherwise just ask.

Thank you so much!

Louisa

RoboColum_n_
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May 5, 2011

Wow! 37 characters and its not the longest? Why so long? Bear in mind there is a restriction on the number of 255 characters in a CBT expression and that includes the boolean operands. Can you abbreviate them and avoid using any underscores. These do not play nicely in many places in RoboHelp. Haven't tried using them in CBTs but expect this could be the issue. Capitals should be OK.


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