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June 1, 2009
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Customizing RoboHelp Skins

  • June 1, 2009
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I'm running into a problem with the customization of my skin for RoboHelp I've created all of my own custom tabs and have linked them to their own separate page.  However, I'm limited to the number of tabs that I can have.  Is there a set amount of tabs that you can display?  Has anyone else run into this problem?  Is there a work around?

Thanks

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Participant
August 13, 2010

Is it possible to help with my quiestion:

I would like to customize the Tool bar on the top. How I can do that? How I can move buttons to the right or change position. Also How I can replace existing buttons on designed by me or add few more?
I also would like to substitute a background color of the tool bar.
What files I have to find and in what location to be able to do so.

Thank you for your help,

Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 13, 2010

I assume you're generating WebHelp - check the help documentation for "skins" - that's what controls the look of your output for WebHelp.

Yobie121Author
Participant
August 13, 2010

Wow, I posted this over a year ago. I figured everything out with customization of my skins in robohelp. Thanks for the response though.

Robert

RoboColum_n_
Legend
June 2, 2009

What type of tabs are you referring to? Is it the tabs on the left hand side (the Navigation Pane)? If so, I've personally never used more than one or two custom tabs and rarely (if ever) use all of the default tabs so I've not come acorss any limit. That's not to say there is one though. How many custom tabs are you creating? My reason for asking is whether the number you have is OK but that there is just not enough room in the navigation panel width to display them.


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Yobie121Author
Participant
June 2, 2009

The tabs that I'm referring to are the top level navigation tabs (i.e. Glossary, Search, etc.).  I've created 11 custom tabs, but I'm only able to view 10 of them when I view my primary layout.  There is enough space for the tabs, so I think that it might be a limitation I might be facing with RoboHelp.

RoboWizard
Inspiring
June 3, 2009

Hi there

I've seen it happen before. While there is no specified limitation, obviously there HAS to be some limitation.

Question here, are you using the "Search Input Field in Toolbar" option? If so, try disabling that and see if you can get more tabs to show. I seem to recall that the last time this issue cropped up on the forums (admittedly quite a while back) that we found in that particular case there was a limit of 13 tabs for the individual posting.

Cheers... Rick