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jaggedpeak
jaggedpeak
Inspiring
December 7, 2010
Question

(RH8) Point me in the direction of snippet help?

  • December 7, 2010
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I'm playing with snippets right now and am stuck when I try to create a snippet that can be used in a numbered list.

Specfically, I have about twenty-five topics, all of which contain procedures that include three steps common to all the topics.

In some topics the steps are 1,2,3. In others they are 2,3,4 or 3,4,5.

In other words, two examples might be:

  1. Encounter a problem.
  2. Research the problem.
  3. Post on adobe RH forum for help.
  4. Get awesome responses from incredibly helpful participants.
  5. Rejoice.
  6. Fix problem.
  7. Succeed!

and

  1. Post on adobe RH forum for help.
  2. Get awesome responses from incredibly helpful participants.
  3. Rejoice.
  4. Spread word far and wide that RH forum is the cat's meow!

How do I (or even can I) use a snippet for the common content in these examples?

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    DavidHutchinson
    Known Participant
    December 7, 2010

    I have struggled with this too. What I have found is that a snippet will force itself onto the line below the number. I worked around it by creating a variable instead of a snippet. A variable will quite happily sit in a list next to the relevant number. 

    Peter Grainge
    Community Expert
    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 7, 2010

    Create each item as a separate snippet.

    Create the list but without numbering, thus

    Item One

    Snippet One

    Snippet Two

    Item Four

    Select the four paragraphs and it will correctly apply the numbering.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

    @petergrainge

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    jaggedpeak
    jaggedpeakAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 7, 2010

    Thanks Peter, that worked perfectly.

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