I recently upgraded from TCS 2 to TCS 4. I use it to "link" FM books to Robohelp and provide webhelp output to our tech team.
I saved my project settings from previous project and imported them into the project I was re-creating (same source book). The project generated without errors and with the correct number of files (I did experience some crashes but they did get resolved).
When I delivered the webhelp output to tech (using a version control application) we discovered some of the files had different file names.
It seems that all of the chapter title styles in my FM books are being brought over with a different name, such as with the name of the project. This issue is only for my FM chapter titles, which before were also topic titles and still are but with a different name. Because I'm linking a book, I cannot re-name the files.
In !SSL! folder my old file used to read something like this:
C:\CompanyProductName\!SSL!\WebHelp\CPN_Help\04.UG.Intro.htm
and how appears as this:
C:\CompanyProductName\!SSL!\WebHelp\CPN_Help\04.UG.Intro\Company_Product_Name.htm
In the Robohelp Project Manager, the file that you see in Topic List view appears as Company Product Name, instead of "Introduction". The correct content is there but the topic title is the project name.
It seems that the conversion settings changed slightly from TCS 2 to TCS 4 and maybe I just don't understand what I need to select. I previously selected Topic Name Pattern to be (Default). Today, I tried different options to no avail. I couldn't get my topic file names to change unless I change the topic name pattern for all the topics (I can't do that for 2000+ files!).
Attached are the settings I'm using. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
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Your TCS4 conversion settings window looks a bit different than my TS3. I have a menu of options for the Topic Name Pattern, but yours doesn't.
I set my H1, H2 and H3, to start a new file and to name it based on the paragraph text <$paratext>.
For your Title Chapter, select "Pagination (split into topics).
And under Topic Name Pattern name, try manually entering <$paratext> or any other combination you want for the html file title.
Alternatively,
Select Topic Name Marker and your files will take on the name of the text in the topic alias.
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