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Where has the user defined variable pod gone?

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
March 16, 2009
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Last week I used the User Defined Variable pod to define some user defined variables in a project.

Today I click View > Pods > User Defined Variables and nothing appears! Furthermore, on the Insert menu, the User Defined Variable option is greyed-out.

Has anyone experienced this before? What is the solution?

Regards

Ian Saunders

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Peter Grainge

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For what it is worth, RH8 has a script that does this.

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ginafromtampa

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Peter, you have once again saved me from having a meltdown! The same thing just happened to me in RoboHelp 7. All of a sudden I could get the Project Manager pod to open. I uninstalled and reinstalled, and still couldn't. Got an error and it shut down when trying to load my environments. So I loaded the default environment, and voila! It worked. Thanks!

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TA_Andy

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I'm not the great and powerful Peter, but hopefully youl find this helpful.

Right-click the menu and choose Customize... Then from the General tab, ensure the Menu Bar is selected and click the Reset... button.

Dismiss the dialog and see if things are better.

If it helps, I've spent time with Peter on a few occasions. Perhaps that helps my credibility?

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Hi Rick,

That did the trick nicely. Many thanks for that.
I've just clicked the "Was this helpful - Yes" link on your post, so hopefully you'll get some extra chocolate or something now.

Blimey, where would we be without forums eh? Anyone remember life pre-internet? Now there's a scary thought...

RoboColum_n_

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You could use a find and replace tool such as FAR or BkReplaceEm if you know the code that RH would use for a variable. There is not other way inside RH without manually looking for the text string and replacing it with a variable.

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s4undersAuthor

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OK, thanks!

While we're on the subject, is there an easy way of replacing a text string with a user variable throughout all the topics in a project?

Peter Grainge

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Possibly accidentally moved to somewhere in your layout where you couldn't see it.

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RoboColum_n_

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Chances are it didn't Ian but may have got "hidden" somewhere in the UI. You may want to save your own environment in case this happens again.

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s4undersAuthor

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Peter,

Your solution worked! Many thanks for your help!

I’m fairly sure that I had the cursor in a topic. Now it’s fixed, I can’t check...

Why would the pod disappear?

Best wishes

Ian

Peter Grainge

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Welcome to the forum.

Easiest solution is to File > Load Default Environment.

You say the insert option is disabled. When a topic has focus? Click in a topic and try again.

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s4undersAuthor

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Sorry, I should have said that this is RH7.

Ian

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