getting glossary entries into glossary

Report · Jun 29, 2011

I'm using RH9 in TCS3 on Windows XP.

I have a book that contains all of my glossary entries. I linked it to my RH project. I right-clicked the book in the Project Manager pod and selected Properties so that I could create a glossary. But my glossary pod is empty. I understand that you have to have topics that have a .glo extension, but shouldn't I be able to drag my topics into the glossary pod?

Thanks in advance.

Report · Jun 29, 2011

Hi there

I'm not sure of the TCS workflow with Frame, but generally the Glossary Pod is just a big window allowing you to manipulate a file with a .GLO extension. It's a large text file with XML entries. One for the Glossary Term and the other for the Glossary Text. So there aren't "Topics" per se.

Cheers... Rick

Helpful and Handy Links

RoboHelp Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form

Begin learning RoboHelp HTML 7, 8 or 9 within the day!

Adobe Certified RoboHelp HTML Training

SorcerStone Blog

RoboHelp eBooks

Report · Jun 29, 2011

See this thread for the file layout: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1043871

Report · Jun 29, 2011

Jeff,

Thanks for sending me this thread. Looks like we need to do some revamping of how we do glossary terms so that they can be used in RH. (I still think you should be able to drag them from the topics list as a last resort.)

Report · Jun 29, 2011

Hi there

So how would you propose it work? If you dragged from the topics list, you are dragging a complete topic. How would the Glossary Designer pod know what you wanted to be a term and what you wanted to be the definition?

You also have an ability to suggest it to the team via the Wish Form. (Link is in my sig)