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Using different images

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
August 4, 2011
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Hello,

I have a standard user guide that I have created. However, I want to swap out images depending on who the guide is generated for. Is there an easy way to do this?

example: Company A gets the entire userguide with their images . company B gets the same user guide with their images.

Thanks,

Chris

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Peter Grainge

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It depends on the version of RoboHelp, which is why the Sticky Topic in Before You Post asks that all threads are started with the version of RoboHelp being used.

Variables can now include images and that would give you what you need. Including images was introduced in RoboHelp 8.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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Sorry about that. I am using roboHelp 8 and I have never used it before. I am being thrown to the wolves...LOL so how would I

use variables for images?

Thanks,

chris

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I selected a few images and applied a conditional build tag to them. I then

compile the files and view them. Here is what happens.

When a small file with 8 topics is compiled and viewed it works fine. The

images that have had a tag applied do not display.

When a large file with over 400 topics is compiled and viewed, the images

do not drop out plus some of the books and topics do not display.

Okay, your mention of "a small file with 8 topics" and "a large file with over 400 topics" seems to suggest you are looking at two completely different projects. Perhaps trying one with the 8 topics as some sort of a sanity test to ensure things work. Then trying the same thing on the larger project and noticing things fail.

My own guess is that you either haven't properly tagged the content or the issue is in the Build Expression used.

Perhaps share some screen captures? Particularly, I'd be comparing the Build Expression used in the 8 topic test with the Build Expression used in the 400 topic project.

As a side note, 400 topics isn't overly large. I'm also unaware of anything that begins to "fall apart" with Robohelp when you increase the number of topics.

Cheers... Rick

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Anonymous

Hi Chris,

You can use conditional build tags. Create a Company A tag and a Company B tag and apply the tags to the images. Then exclude the Company A tag from Company B's single source layout, and the Company B tag from Company A's single source layout.

Hope this helps.

Jennifer

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