RoboHelp 8.02 inserts underscores at random into topic titles

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January 29, 2010
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When processing linked FrameMaker 9 files, RH 8.02 seems to put underscores under some, but not all of the topic titles generated from the headings in a FrameMaker file.

This isn’t a huge problem, until you use the Search capability in your Help output. Since the Topic Title is what is displayed in the search results, the end product is in need of a little polish.

Further, for topics created from linked FrameMaker 9 files, the Topic Title is not editable from the Topic Properties. If it was, at least I could change the offending titles prior to final generation of output. (though the titles would revert on the next update of the FrameMaker source content)

Any solutions?

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Anonymous

But why do the search results show the file name on some topics? Why would any user want to see the file name in an HTML-based help system? All my topics have a title and that's what I want the search to show to the user.

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Community Expert

It's actually the topic title that's showing, and the topic title at random intervals chooses to put in underscores. Try deselecting the "Replace spaces with underscores" option for the filename (suggested by RJ Jacquez) though that will give you filenames with spaces (and that may simply be a different issue to work around)

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

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Anonymous

Thanks, Matt. This is what is happening. I did find that clearing the "Replace spaces with underscores" option fixed this in the search. However, I'm still unclear as to whether or not having spaces in a file name will be a problem. It is my understanding that (as a best practice) you should not have spaces in HTML files. Do you have any information about this?

Thanks,

Chris

Peter Grainge

Community Expert

Matt

I'm not going to be able to help with the FM side of things but if you send me a document that has this problem I'll see if I can identify a quick fix in RH. Not hopeful but it cannot do any harm.

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