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Hi all,
While converting FM to RH project the variables are incorrectly processed. And doesn't show corretly in WebHelp output.
The problem is that I have signs in variables definition like this "** \<some text> more text" that variable displays correctly in FrameMaker, but after creating a project in RH it displays as "** \ more text" in user defined variables in RH.
Is there a way to make it work correctly without much effort?
Or I need sth to export the variables from framemaker correctly and convert them into a rhvariable.apj file and replace it in RH folder structure?
if so is there a easy way to do it or workaround?
Please help,
I got a giant book in FM with variables named as mention and I don't know how to handle it atm.
RH 2015 and FM 2015
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First, are you all patched up on both products? Second, are you importing your FM content or linking to it? - that may have a bearing on what's happening.
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Yes patched up on both products.
No matter if I'm linking to it or I'm Importing to it there is same issue.
Still I didn't find out how to handle variables that have "\<anything>" in the definition as it only shows as "\"
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According to the help, FM variables should be converted over to RH. Can you give us a screenshot of the variable in FM and the result in RH?
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FM variables are converted over to RH, but the conversion is incorrect when u use "<>" signs in definition of variable in frame maker.
So I'm struggling with the conversion of the variable definition (or value for RH).
I know that after I change "<>" signs for html entities in rhvariables.apj they are correct but I don't want to mess around with it.
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Is that a Character Format inside the "<>" signs? If you change it for one of the other Character Formats, does it come across ok?
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Inside "<>" signs there is just plain text to display it's not a character format
in RH that variable value should look like this after conversion.
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What's it look like in the HTML of the topic in RH? I think the conversion process is interpreting what's inside the variable as code - what happens if you change it use curly or square brackets? Does it convert cleanly then?
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The point is that i need exactly "<>" more and less signs as brackets there, but imho what you suggest will result in clean conversion. I think RH converting them because recognize them as active variables "<$pagecount>" like this one. But I don't know it for sure. Is there a way to exclude all "<>" signs from conversion by typing a regex or adding any custom settings? to exclude anything that is not started from "<$" in variable definition?
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I'm not aware of any controls in the conversion process that concern variables; I suspect you're going to have to either sub in a new bracket & then do a find & replace in the RH project or maybe run the FM content through a FM template first (like Matt R. Sullivan advocates) to do the switch-out of brackets & then do a F&R on the RH project.
Oh - another idea - what happens if you change the FM definition to use 2 angle brackets instead of 1? Does one survive the conversion?