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Sreekanth_S
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April 22, 2014
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Issues with importing FM Glossary into RH

  • April 22, 2014
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Hi

I have created the Glossary in FM using the following procedure:

1,  Select the text for Glossary term and assign the Glossary marker to it.

2.  In the Marker window, add a colon next to the term (as a separator) and enter the description.

3.  Click New Marker.

When I generate the Glossary in FM, I get it right.

However, when I import this to RH, the entire text in the Marker window is considered as the Glossary term and the paragraph which has the selected text comes out as the Glossary description.

Where am I going wrong? Please advise.

Sreekanth

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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April 22, 2014

I think you’ve a space after your colon in the marker text – that might be throwing it off

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Sreekanth_SAuthor
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April 22, 2014

I removed the space. Still no use.

Sreekanth

Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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September 3, 2014

@Jeff

I had never tried.

But I did try now. I selected a text Animals on page 4 of 22 of my FM document, marked it as Index, and gave the text you mentioned in the Marker pod's Marker Text field.

On updating the book, the Index FM file had three levels. And, on importing it to RH, Index showed three levels in the Webhelp output.

However, I might be doing it wrong, as I am not sure what you meant by "Book of books" concept.

Sreekanth


Nope, that’s exactly it – good to know it works ok.

I could never get the FM index to be generated correctly because there was a bug that caused FM to blow up. It only happened when you had a master book that had your ToC and Index (both all based on .fm files contained within “sub-books”), and the sub-books themselves. So you would have a master book that had sub-books (like modules), each of which had a number of .fm files making them up – a “book of books” concept.

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