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adrianaharper
adrianaharper
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July 11, 2011
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Structured Framemaker in Robohelp?

  • July 11, 2011
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Hi all,

Using TCS3 in Win 7 64 bit. I'm wondering if the integration of a structured FM book works in RH, for creating HTML help? I am using unstructured at this point which works (pulling into RH, creating HTML) but we now need to have very complex conditional expressions but neither unstructured FM nor RH can handle parentheses or truly boolean conditional expressions, so I need to look at other alternatives (one of which might be structured authoring)?

Any insight is appreciated.

Thanks,

Adriana

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 11, 2011

Although RoboHelp cannot handle parentheses in the expression, expressions can still be written to work as if it could. See http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/build_expressions/expressions.htm on my site.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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adrianaharper
adrianaharperAuthor
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July 18, 2011

Hi Peter,

I tried to set-up the conditional coding as you have laid out on your website (very helpful, thank you!) but it isn't working. I'm hoping you can help me - I know I must be missing something.

My conditions are the following:

Internal

Online

Print

CompanyA-Hide

CompanyA-Show

CompanyB

CompanyC

My expression for the INTERNAL-PRINT condition is: "Internal"AND"CompanyA-HIDE"OR"Internal"AND"CompanyA-Show"OR"Internal"AND"CompanyB"OR"Internal"AND"Print"OR"Internal"ANDNOT"Online"

What I want to have happen is:

Anything coded with Internal by itself should show up

Anything coded with Internal AND/OR Print, Internal AND/OR CompanyA-Hide, Internal AND/OR CompanyC = should show up

Anything coded with Internal AND CompanyB or Internal AND Online or Internal AND CompanyA-Show = should NOT Show

This appears to be working except for the text that is coded with only the Internal condition (a single condition) - it is not displaying.

Any guidance is greatly appreciated - I am fairly certain, at this point, that I am making this more complicated than it needs to be?

Thanks,

Adriana

Peter Grainge
Community Expert
Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 19, 2011

Speak to one of your developers first. I think they will likely do in a few minutes what I could only do by trial and error.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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