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suzieshell
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July 29, 2010
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Twistie Functionality Missing from RoboHelp 8

  • July 29, 2010
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Hello,

My technical writing team and I were recently upgraded to RoboHelp 8. It is our understanding that you can add a Twistie in a help file. I've been researching for the past few hours and can't seem to find accurate instructions, nor can I find the functionality. Is this feature something that is an add-on or is anyone else having a problem finding the feature in RoboHelp? We found the following instructions in the RoboHelp 8 help file - not really telling us how to add a twistie, but as close as we could find.

Add or change images in a hotspot

Select Drop-down hotspot style in the Styles dialog box.
Expand Character styles to view the Drop-down hotspot style.
Click the Select Twisties Images button .
Select an image to display closing drop-down text and one image to open a drop-down hotspot.
Select an option to place the images either at the Start Of Text or End Of Text. Similarly, you can change images for expanding text.

We tried to follow these, but there isn't a Drop-down hotspot style when you view the Character styles and the one in that exists (in All Available Styles) doesn't allow us to apply the style. Next is that we can't find a Select Twisties Images button anywhere in the app.

Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Thank you,

Michele

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    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    July 29, 2010

    Hi there

    Try this. Right-click the topic and choose properties. Then Appearance and finally Edit. (You see a larger dialog that way)

    Then look in the larger dialog and see if you can find this:

    Cheers... Rick

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    suzieshellAuthor
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    July 29, 2010

    Wow! You have made our day, Rick!

    Thank you! We are very appreciative.

    Michele (and the rest of the technical writing team)

    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    September 2, 2010

    Thanks to Rick for pointing out the location of the dialog box.

    I've tried several times and don't seem to be able to add both opening and closing images to a glossary style.

    Maybe I'm not doing it in the right sequence.

    1. Select image.

    2. Select opening or closing radio button.

    3. Click OK, presuming that you've defined either the open or close.

    4. Return to dialog box.

    5. Select image.

    6. Select opposite action from 2.

    7. Only the latest is retained.

    What am I missing?

    Thanks,

    V.


    Which OK button are you referring to in Step 3.

    Once you have the dialog above open, you first browse to the location of one of the images you want and the only OK button you click is where you select that image to return to the dialog above.

    Then you click the other folder image to browse to the second image.

    However, I tried selecting just one image and going all the way back to the style pod and then starting again for the second image and that too was OK.

    I am not sure what is going wrong for you. Maybe you could post some screenshots of each step.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

    @petergrainge

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