Need to remove.. Chapter_xx

[nitgood07]

Hi,

I am new to RoboHelp7, and currently working on a WebHelp project. In my project I need to generate the Printed Documents output (to word) from my htmls. Everything looks fine except two issues.

1. It automatically generates documents with Chapter_xx_name of the topic.doc, where as my requirement is to remove "Chapter_xx" from generated documents names. For ex. if my topic name is 10_20_30.htm then generated document should be 10_20_30.doc and not Chapter_01_10_20_30.doc.

Is it possible and if yes then how?

2. I need to create a template (For printed output),with the if not completely then almost matching the styles of my topics. It should not take default template. Because default template is not preserving settings in a consistent manner. I know we can create our own template but how?

Looking for your support.

Thanks,

Nitin

[Peter Grainge]

If you create a new project and generate your printed documentation using either the CSS option or RH's own Style Mapping template, it does not generate Chapter nn. The fact that you are seeing this suggests you are using a home brewed template that has been set up that way.

See the article on Printed Documentation on my site. I recommend you use the supplied Style Mapping template and use Word's Organiser to import the styles or modify that template direct. The supplied template will hold its settings. I don't know what is going wrong for you. There are some limits, such as not being able to apply headers and footers.

I have seen many people create their own template and hit issues they don't hit when they modify Style Mapping to give the same results. All explained in my article.

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[nitgood07]

Ok but I have tried with all three options and got the same results in terms of name of the output docs, which is Chapter_xx_something.doc

1. [None] Use the projetc's CSS style

2. Use Microsift word templates

3. Style Mapping .dot

all three generates the topics starting with Chapter_xx (Where xx is 01 or 02.. so on). My thought is it must have set this setting somewhere in my project, and that can be updated to remove the Chapter_xx. can you please hint me about that?

[Peter Grainge]

Are you perhaps generating multiple documents on the first page? Select single document.

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[nitgood07]

I am taking Generate Individuals documents option not a single document.

Actually I have multiple policies in my project, and each policy is a single document (Topic), and I need to generate the printed documents (.doc) for each topic.

[Peter Grainge]

I don't think there is much you can do about that then.

Do you need to generate all documents every time? If not you could set up layouts for each policy. A pain but a one-off task. Using duplicate layout will minimise the work.

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[nitgood07]

So if I setup the layout for each policy then, is it possible to set the output document name format? can I remove the "Chapter_xx" from my output documents? And also I would appriciate if you can point me to the discussion where setting up a layout is described.

[Peter Grainge]

You are only getting Chapter nn because you are using Individual documents. Provided you are not using Master Document as well, you can do what you like with the documents in Word. With Master Document, you would need to test what breaks it. Advice on Word forums seems to be not to use Master Documents.

The layouts are described in the online help. All you really need to know is:

- Right click to create the duplicate and name it as required

- Amend the path to whatever suits you

- In the second page of the wizard, change the content to what you need in that layout

- All other settings will likely be identical for each setting.

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