Hi All,
Is there a way (adding a DIV maybe?) to add some additional information on a frameless HTML responsive layout like Indigo. What I'd like is to add some standard text and maybe embed a video for people when they hit the landing page, instead of having them have to click through to something. I've attached a graphic to show you what I'm thinking.
It's a merged project, so the links to the sub-projects are displayed (e.g. eStart, Portals). Ideally I'd keep those intact, but I'd consider replacing those if I could configure the master project to display a topic with the information I wanted in their place.
You can look at the live project here:
I was thinking that maybe I could get the content of the Welcome page to display on the main landing page, but no such luck. Any help, appreciated.
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I'm not certain the search for that text will do the trick. I say this because I believe that actual phrase is stored in the LNG file. So likely a placeholder of some sort actually exists that is then replaced with the LNG text. According to the LNG file, it is known as:
Welcome_text=What can we help you with today?
I looked at the layout in RoboHelp. (Output Setup pod > Indigo > Homepage) and I think this is where you will need to modify things.
I note that if I search the page I find a div with Welcome in it.
I copied it and pasted and made a slight modification.
I then saved it all and generated and here is the result:
So it would appear you ARE able to influence it. But you will need to do some experimenting as well as tweaking the CSS in order to center things and whatnot.
Cheers... Rick 
Thanks for that Rick. I'll have a look and see what I can come up with. Just, out of curiosity, do you listen to the No Agenda podcast? If you do, you'll know why I asked. If you don't, you should 
Hmmm, okay. I'll bite. I clicked the link and I see that it is a page with no image header and an embedded audio file at the top of the page.
So I'm guessing that you are wanting to kind of emulate that by having your own media file at the top of your RoboHelp output?
Although I generally avoid podcasts, I'm listening at the moment to see what this one is all about.
Cheers... Rick
Hope you had a good listen Your use of "nyet, nyet, nyet" just reminded me of a clip the hosts use of Rosie Odonnell shouting "nyet, nyet, nyet". Just seemed like too much of a coincidence to me.
Anyhow, I hadn't really thought about it related to the No Agenda webpage, but yes, we might want to include our own media file at the top of the output. Fiddling with CSS and such things is one of the few highlights of my job, so that is promising.
However, as a more general question, is RoboHelp happy with me editing the LNG file (assuming all JS or CSS is valid)? And more importantly, and not necessarily LNG specific, is RoboHelp happy for me to copy a modified LNG file to other projects that require the same customisations?
We will have many individual projects that would require the same customisation as well as the same tags and conditional build expressions and the same dynamic content filters. However, it seems that with Robohelp, things like SSL outputs and tags and conditional build expressions need to be manually copied (or via a script in Windows Explorer) across projects (tags and variables for example can't be shared via Resource Manager). My small scale testing indicates that this is possible and works fine, but I'm just worried about breaking projects. Do you have any experience in that area?
Again, thanks for your help.
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