Dynamic content in tables / nested dynamic content

[Lars Wilhelmer]

Hello RH community,

let's say I have defined four Conditional Build Tags in my RH 2015 project: A, B, C, and D. I also set up these CBTs for Dynamic Content Filtering (HTML5 output).

In my topic, I added a table with three rows and some text in each row. Then, I assigned one CBT to each row (row 1 -> A, row 2 -> B, row 3 -> C).

I also added some text outside of the table and assigned CBT "D" to it.

So what happens if I view this topic in my webbrowser (IE / Chrome / whatever) and select "D" as a content filter? The text of the three rows is hidden, but the table borders are still visible.

This is because the table is not effectively empty - it still contains paragraphs with the "rh-hide" class added to them.

Now I thought I could wrap the whole table in a <?rh-cbt_start condition="A, B, C" ?> tag. Unfortunately, this applies the A,B,C condition to all rows of the table, and the differentiation between A, B, and C does not work anymore.

I think that's because nested dynamic content conditions are not possible with RH. You can't say "apply this condition to this content, and within this content, have a different condition". Am I right? Is there any solution to this problem?

Best regards,

Lars

[Lars Wilhelmer]

Okay, forgot to add table{"border-collapse: collapse"} to the CSS. Now tables without visible content are properly hidden.

Still, I think it would be helpful to allow nested dynamic content. But I found out that nested conditions don't even work with the traditional CBTs within RoboHelp, so that's probably a more complex issue.

[Lars Wilhelmer]

... but border-collapse does not work if I have something like this:

When I choose "C" in the output, it looks like this:

That's because the first cell in the first row consists of a non-hidden <td> with hidden paragraphs in it:

Even with border-collapse enabled (also tried adding empty-cells:hide to the tds), the row won't be hidden.

Maybe there's another approach to this, but I can't figure out how to handle such tables (and yes, we need to have a lot of tables with this structure in our current project).

[amitjha-lt]

Hi

Thanks for reporting the issue.

Please try removing attribute border="1" from table (inside table tag).

To have border apply table style like SimpleGridBlue or SimpleGridBlack or any other of your choice.

Thanks

Amit Jha

[amitjha-lt]

Idea is to use cell border rather table border. And RoboHelp table style works on Cell border.