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Robohelp and Netskope

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Hi,

Does anyone have any experience with Robohelp and Netskope? It seems that Netskope is blocking the ability to create a connection between Robohelp and SharePoint Online, and therefore publishing is blocked.

Has anyone else had this issue, and how did you resolve it?

 

thanks,

Carmela

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    Peter Grainge
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    December 21, 2022

    It isn't @Amebr who has the problem. Tagging @Grant27459497a2f2 

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    Peter Grainge
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    December 20, 2022

    @Grant27459497a2f2 My comment was noted as being to @cwilbur22422593 and was saying they needed to take it with their developers, that is the developers in the company @cwilbur22422593 works for. That is the usual solution but IT Admin would also deal with it.

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    Participating Frequently
    December 20, 2022

    Cool, that's kind of what I figured. Thanks for your help!

    Community Expert
    December 19, 2022

    @Grant27459497a2f2 In many corporate environments, the environment variables can't be changed without an admin login, so I'd advise contacting your IT help desk (or developers as Peter suggested, although sometimes they won't have access either) with the details Surbhi posted. They should be able to set it for you.

    Participating Frequently
    December 19, 2022

    Hi, I am the IT admin and the variable needs to be set on the Robohelp side. It appears Peter's reply was to another comment I believe. I can't imagine that a company would have in house developers for Robohelp other than adobe, but hey I could be wrong.

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    December 19, 2022

    Surbhi wouldn't have suggested something that requires Robohelp developers as they only exist at Adobe. I suppose maybe they meant doing something in the developer tools (Ctrl+Alt+D). But I figured they meant adding the the variable name and the path to the netskope certificate to the Windows environment variables. However @surbhi_maheshwari9120543 can confirm for sure.

    Peter Grainge
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    December 19, 2022

    @cwilbur22422593 I think you need to take this up with your developers as @surbhi_maheshwari9120543 is where Support would be going!

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    Participating Frequently
    December 15, 2022

    Hi,

    We are experienceing some of the same setup issues with Robohelp and Netskope. Do you by chance remember what was required to fix the SharePoint Online connection? Thanks in advance.

    surbhi_maheshwari9120543
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    December 16, 2022

    Hi,

    This looks related to whitelisting which is require at Netskope end and also please have your IT team have a look at https://docs.netskope.com/en/configure-netskope-to-access-your-office-365-sharepoint-sites-app.html .

    Whitelisting for following URLs is also required:

    Let me know how it goes. 

    Thanks and Regards,
    Surbhi Maheshwari

    Inspiring
    May 9, 2023

    Hi,

    Thanks for sharing the details.

    From the above shared article of netskope, have you tried setting the environment variable?

    $ export NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=[your CA certificate file path]

    If not please do so and let me know how it goes.

     

    Thanks and Regards,
    Surbhi Maheshwari

     


    Good morning , 

    We are having issues downloading a project, it comes up as empty. could you please tell me where to set up 

    $ export NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=[your CA certificate file path]

    My tech ppl asked me which url needs to be added the certificate above. 

    Peter Grainge
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    May 12, 2022

    I'm also guessing that Adobe have checked your RoboHelp version, should be 7.

     

    My gut feel is this is something on your side or there would be many more threads about this. That doesn't help though as you need to know what it is. I'm sorry I can't help on that.

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    May 12, 2022

    Hi Peter,

     

    Yes, I'm on version 2020.7.46, and I'm trying to publish frameless.

     

    Thanks for responding, you and John are always so helpful, I appreciate both of you! Have a great day.

    johndaigle
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    May 12, 2022
    Hi, Carmela. I suspect your IT team has already looked at this link, but just in case:
     
    John DaigleAdobe Certified RoboHelp and Captivate InstructorNewport, Oregon
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    May 12, 2022

    OK, I got the connection to work. Robohelp connected with SharePoint, created the location folder in the Documents folder, began to upload folders: template (2 folders in it), whdata (no files or folders in it),  and assests (nothing in the folder) and then it just stopped loading anything. It did this before, we let it go, waiting for an error, 4 hours later, no error, just the window stating that it was uploading files. But it seems to have gotten stuck. Has anyone had this happen, and if so, how did you resolve? Or where do I lead my IT department to look for a solution?

     

    Is there any technical docuemtnation on how this should work? MY IT department said they have searched Adobe and no technical information on Robohelp. Without any detailed Adobe documentation, I can only come here and ask the questions, and go back to my IT department.  Thank you for your patience.

    Carmela

    Peter Grainge
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    May 12, 2022

    Is what you have reported at https://community.adobe.com/t5/robohelp-discussions/robohelp-and-netskope/m-p/12938327#M144418 with Netskope involved or direct from RoboHelp to Sharepoint. If the latter, when you uploading, is that using the publish dialog or a third party tool?

     

    Direct is covered in basic terms at SharePoint Online but that's pretty much which is what is in the online help, which I assume you have read.

     

    If you can rule out Netskope still being an issue I think your best option with this one is Support. See https://helpx.adobe.com/contact/enterprise-support.other.html#robohelp for your Adobe Support options. The email link tcssup@adobe.com is recommended as it reaches a team dedicated to Technical Communication Suite products including RoboHelp. 

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    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    May 11, 2022

    I'd get your IT folks on this one - they need to tune the security app so that it doesn't block legitimate applications that you need to function.

    Peter Grainge
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    May 11, 2022

    I have never seen Netskope mentioned on this forum. Have you tried their forum to see if others have posted there with issues from RoboHelp or similar tools? Maybe Netskope themselves can help with identifying what is causing the block and then maybe Adobe can help?

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