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nulupbez
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August 26, 2010
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conditional text - excluding navigational buttons

  • August 26, 2010
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i'm running robohelp 8.0.208.

i've created a webhelp system that displays hyperlinked buttons on each topic page for previous, next and TOC.

however, i'd like for these to display only in the context-sensitive help (when a single topic is selected and viewed).

is there a way to tag these buttons so that they don't show on each topic when the user views the entire system?

any help you can give would be much appreciated!

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Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Braniac
August 27, 2010

Hi there

As my colleague and fellow Adobe Community Professional Peter said, you certainly can't use Conditional Text for this.

However, this sounds as if you generated WebHelp using Traditional - No Skin as the option?

Note that if a topic is not part of a Browse Sequence, you should not see the Previous and Next buttons. Those are only present if the topic is part of a Browse Sequence.

If you generated WebHelp using a Skin, you normally don't see the "Hide TOC/Show TOC" or whatever it's labeled, unless the topic is being viewed as a standalone topic and not in the WebHelp frameset.

Cheers... Rick

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nulupbezAuthor
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August 27, 2010

yes - i did generate the webhelp using traditional - no skin as an option. but i did create a browse sequence. i used conditional text to hide the navigation buttons. i thought (hoped) that if each topic were called individually, outside of the compiled/generated html project, that the navigation buttons would display.

are you sure that there's no way to do this? or maybe there's a workaround? i did copy the entire system (without the navigation buttons), renamed it, and linked out to that for the TOC button. these two systems can live inside the web app, although that might leave a big footprint. 

do you think that will work? 

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Braniac
August 27, 2010

Hi there

Okay, so your post concerns me a bit. Here's why.

You said:

i used conditional text to hide the navigation buttons.

See, the thing is, those buttons are created during the process of generating WebHelp and you should never ever see them when you are making edits.

Think of it like this. You are using RoboHelp as you would a kitchen. Perhaps you are making cupcakes. Cupcakes are like your WebHelp output. As you mix the batter for the cupcakes you say you don't want icing on there too. But icing shouldn't be part of the batter, should it? Nope, the icing is added as a last step after the cupcakes are baked.

So your comment seems to indicate that you have WebHelp output files that have replaced the source content. And if that's what has happened, you are in for some trouble down the road.

Cheers... Rick

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Peter Grainge
Peter Grainge
Braniac
August 27, 2010

No way built into RoboHelp and nothing I have seen posted. Build tags are used to exclude content from the output completely. You cannot use them to include / exclude according to how the help is called.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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