FM style not available to map to RH style

[cvgs]

TCS1

RH7

FM8

I have mapped all of my FM styles to a RH style.  I realize that only styles contained in the current document can be mapped; however, there is a stepbulletindent style that is in my FM book that is not available to be mapped on the RoboHelp Style Mapping dialog box.

How can I map if the style is not available? 

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Is the style available in all .fm docs of the book? Maybe RH isn't seeing it if it's not available in all.

[cvgs]

Well, I don't know that it's available in all the .fm docs in the book, but it is available in several of the topics that I copied by reference. I would think that would make it available. When I select the stepsbulletindent in a topic, it shows in the style drop-down list as FM_stepsbulletindent, which means that it wasn't mapped. But when I try to map it, it doesn't display as being available to map.

[Jeff_Coatsworth · Accepted solution]

I didn't think you could map them after the fact - only when you first link them. I would try a couple of things - find the css that defines the mappings (you should see all those FM_ formats defined) and add your FM_stepsbulletindent one; or try a new project that imports the FM book(s) & see if your missing stepsbulletindent appears in the conversion mapping; or you could try copying the format to all docs in your FM book and try a Force Update to see if appears.

[cvgs]

Jeff,

Good news!  Stepsbulletindent does show up now.  Here's what I did:

1. I couldn't find a .css that defines the mappings, but I do have an xml mappings file. I added a line that maps the FM stepsbulletindent to the appropriate RH style.

2. I created a new project and copied the entire FM book by reference and the stepsbulletindent style then was displayed.

Here's where I think I went wrong.  Since the book that I was copying was so huge, I deleted several chapters from the book to speed up testing.  I think that not having the entire book copied over may have been the culprit.

And yes, you can map styles at any time.  You have to do an update all, but it does work. In fact, probably most of my styles have been mapped later in the process as I discover something that doesn't look right.  Thank goodness that's an option.

Thanks so much for your help.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Good to hear - I'm an import guy myself because I use the FM9 book-of-books feature for my docs. RH8 chokes on linking in that scenario I discovered.

[cvgs]

We have found RH to be very buggy. One day it works great and then the next, it's a two year old.

We have been lusting after TCS2 since so many of the bugs in TCS1 seem to have been corrected. However, it looks like TCS3 is coming out shortly, so we're hoping that the budget is available for us to purchase it.

Thanks again for your assistance.