RH6 imports topic titles with underscores

It's changed there, too. Did you close the project one more time and open it again?

When I drag the topic into the TOC, it uses the new title. But the existing TOC entries wouldn't take the new title from the TOC properties dialog. I had to delete and rebuild it.

H

Take a look at the title in Topic Properties. I know somewhere along the line I hit some sort of problem with this sort of trick.

Peter,

With a project in RH 6 closed, I edited the html source to change the title in two files. Saved the changed files.

Launched RH 6 and opened the project. The titles were changed in the topic list, which means RH must have updated the .cpd database table.

Of course, the TOC entries didn't automatically update, as they never do when you change a topic title in RH.

Before import, that's OK. Thought you meant after import.

Peter,

Good question. I'll test.

I've used this in html files that were generated elsewhere with an empty title, before importing them into RH.

Tracey Z says:

"We import files into folders. We do it by right-clicking the folder and clicking Import then locating the already created file and importing it. RH changed the title doing it this way. We found that if we import it to the root of the project, it doesn't change the title. "


When I want to import a file into a folder, I simply select that folder in the Project Manager and, for good measure, go to Topics view for that folder rather than all folders.

Then I click File | Import | html file and navigate to select the file(s) to be imported. The imported file goes into the selected folder, if you're careful. The title is preserved. (By the way, I have the MDBMS update installed.)

If you accidentally un-select the folder, the file usually goes to the root.

Harvey

Does the title in the CPD get corrected somehow? Maybe by trashing it and recreating it?

If anyone is interested, I have a Perl Script that picks up the first line of text formatted h1 like this:

< h1 >Re-inventing the Wheel< /h1 >

and inserts it between < title > .....and...< /title>, replacing anything that may be there already. So you get

< title >Re-inventing the Wheel< /h1 >

It applies this process to every html file in a given directory. The file name is untouched.

Also, FAR has some fancy tricks for advanced users.

Email me off list if you're interested.

Harvey

Jared

It can be done but it leaves your file names with underscores and all the links, TOC items etc without them. Tends to break them! :-)

To fix those you then need to do lots more find and replace stuff which requires a knowledge of regular expressions.

Ok... so it was my luck to have to import over a hundred topics into a project. Is there a text file / database where the filenames for associated .htm files are stored? I'm wanting to do a quick find and replace to replace underscores on these imported files with spaces. Is this possible, or will i need to go the topics one by one to eradicate these underscores?

The fix doesn't work in my case.... of course I'm on a Vista machine with RH 6 (sigh... I can't wait until RH 7).

After applying the "fix", I'm getting the entire full pathway to the file as the title. For example:
D:\DocProjects\V42\PC-DMIS Core\12_toolbars_topics\Active_Arms_Toolbar.htm

Which is a real pain to edit. So I'm installing the old .dll back so that I only have the underscores...the lesser of two bugs.