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April 10, 2012
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FM 10 ignores Apply Page Break Marker filenames

  • April 10, 2012
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Hi,

We're using Adobe TCS 3.5 (FM 10.0.1.408 and RH 9.0.1.262) to generate WebHelp from Frame.

We need to be able to specify the HTML file names for about 20% of our topics.  I thought that maybe the "Apply Page Break Marker" feature might let us do this because it has a "Filename" field. 

In Frame, I insert my cursor at the start of what I want to be a topic, I then choose RoboHelp>Apply Page Break Marker, which displays the above window. I specify the topic title, and Frame automatically populates the Filename field. However, because I want to specify my own file name, I select and revise the text that Frame put in the Filename field. Then I click OK and repeat the process for a bunch of topics. I save the document, update my Frame book, and then publish WebHelp. 

However, when I look at the output folder, it does not contain HTM files with the names I entered in the Filename field.

It appears to have ignored what I put in the Filename field, opting instead to create its own file names, which are the topic titles with underscores for spaces.

Is there any way to use this feature to specify HTML file names?

SusanB

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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April 10, 2012

It appears that the help topic (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/techcomsuite/tcs/using/WS1b49059a33f77726-31aee1b1342288940d-7fc0.html) on this is missing any discussion on what should go into that Filename: field.

It might be expecting you to use building blocks like <$paratext> - see http://help.adobe.com/en_US/techcomsuite/tcs/using/WS1b49059a33f77726-31aee1b1342288940d-7fd8.html for some other ones to try.

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April 10, 2012

Hi Jeff,

Thanks - I thought the building blocks referenced in the above link were for the "Other Settings" node on the Conversion Settings dialog in RoboHelp, but I tried your suggestion, anyway: in Frame, I edited an existing Page Break marker to use the <$filename_no_ext>-<n> building block in the Filename field, then I saved, updated, republished, checked the would-be-affected HTML file, and: no dice.  The HTML file name didn't change. It continues to ignore what I put in that field.

Good idea, though!  I hadn't thought of that.  If you have any other ideas, I'm all ears! Right now, the only way I know to specify HTML file names is to create my own marker in Frame, mark my topics in Frame, create a RH project, link the FM book, specify in RH's Conversion Settings window, "Other Settings" node, the name of the marker I created, save that to an ISF, and then close the RH project, go back to Frame, publish from there, and point to the RH xpj and the isf that I just created. I have gotten this to work; I was just hoping there might be another, easier way, because the way I described requires me to specify HTML filenames for every last topic and I only *need* to specify 'special' names for about 20% of my topics.

Susan

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