Drop-down Text conversion - FM to RH

[reneemurphy]

Hello, I am currently using TCS 2 and am trying to create drop-down text/captions for the first time. When I created the Dynamic HTML Effects in FrameMaker, I see that two new paragraph tags were created. This means that i need to map those tags to RoboHelp paragraph tags on the Conversion Settings screen. Here's my question - is it possible to have the  drop-down text contain multiple paragraph tags? For example, if my drop-down caption is a Heading 4, is it possible for the drop-down text to contain a Heading 5, body text, and bullets? Thanks in advance for any assistance.

[Peter Grainge]

I am not a FM user so I cannot answer your question as posed. However, I can say that a dropdown can contain whatever you might otherwise put directly in a topic so heading levels, images, tables and suchlike are fine.

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[reneemurphy]

So far, i haven't received an answer to this question. Does anyone know of another forum or resource I can access to get help?

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Have you tried experimenting with a sample doc and bringing it into RH? What were the results?

[reneemurphy]

Hi Jeff. Thanks for responding. Yes i did perform a test. The drop-down functionality works fine. The problem I am having is maintaining the formatting of the drop-down text.  When I created the drop-down caption and text in FM, two new paragraph tags were created. Back in RH, I needed to map those tags. The drop-down caption was easy to map because it was just a heading. However, I'm not sure how to map the drop-down text since the text contains various paragraph styles (body text and two different bullet styles). For my test, i mapped the drop-down text to the [Souce] RH style (I wasn't sure what else to map it to). In doing so, the text alignment/font/bullets/etc. look funny (the two bullet styles are alligned with each other and there is an "n" instead of the bullet symbol. It seems like perhaps the drop-down text style overwrites the individual styles I have mapped in my project. BTW, I am fairly new at FM/RH integration, so might not completely understand the nuances of mapping. Thanks in advance for any assistance you provide.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Since it sounds like your drop-down text in FM is composed of different p.styles, expecting it to map 1:1 to something in RH is optimistic. I'd try defining some more p.styles in FM to correspond to the drop-down text, the drop-down text bullets, etc. Then when you do the mapping, they might come over better. In the end you may just end up having to monkey with the css sheet being applied to make them look "good."

[reneemurphy]

Good suggestions Jeff. It sounds like the effort (mapping multiple drop-down text styles) is not feasable for me at this time so perhaps the drop down functionality isn't a good solution for me right now. Your advice has helped. Thanks again.

[sparklyfirefly]

Renee, I'm having exactly the same issues in TC4. I wonder, did you persevere with this and find a solution? I'm new to mapping too so any advice would be very welcome.