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Anonymous
November 27, 2012
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Multiscreen HTML 5 - What to give to Development?

  • November 27, 2012
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Hello,

I am creating a new help project for one of our iPad apps. This is the first time I have compiled with the Multiscreen HTML 5 primary layout.

When I compile in WebHelp, I check the entire WebHelp folder (...\!SSL!\WebHelp) into our SVN content management system for Development to get. (With HTML, they just take the .chm file of course).

For these iPad multiscreen builds, should I just give Development the contents of ipad folder (..!SSL!\Multiscreen_HTML5\ipad)?

Thanks very much for the help. I saw in another post that you can change the color shemes for the multiscreen layout, so that's good news. I will give that a try as well.

Kevin

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Peter Grainge
Peter Grainge
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November 27, 2012

It is likely that is what you will do but by no means certain. Take a look at the RoboHelp Tour on my site. In the RoboHelp 10 content I describe the options. You may want to show that to your developers too.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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Willam van Weelden
Willam van Weelden
Inspiring
November 27, 2012

You'll have to give the entire output folder to your developers. If you have more than one layout, the root folder will contain several outputs, one for each device.

The root folder contains scripts and files to direct the user to the correct output for their device. This becomes even more important if you ever want to used merged HTML5 help or multiple devices.

Greet,

Willam

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Anonymous
November 28, 2012

Yes the index.htm in the root folder (/Multiscreen_HTML5) is a sniffer. On startup it determins which screen layout to use. If you have only one screen leyout you can also use only the corresponding subfilder (/Multiscreen_HTML5/android_phone or whatever) and start the index.htm in that folder.


Thank you all for the kind responses. I met with Development yesterday, and they're going to give it a try.

In regards to the removal of the Glossary, I did that, and the large button disappears, but a small "unclickable" button remains at the bottom left. In addition, the project title is not showing up unless I click in that field (under the Search field) a few times. Here's the image. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks again,

Kevin

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