Automatically expanding all drop-down and expanding text in a project.

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September 22, 2010
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I am using RH8. The project I am working on has a lot of drop-down text and expanding text. I was wondering if there was an easy way to auto-expand all the text within the project.

Any information on how I might be able to do this without manually doing it would be much appreciated.

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Willam van Weelden

Inspiring

Hi,

What exactly do you want? Do you want a button to allow users to show/hide all dropdowns on a page? Do you want to delete all dropdowns from your source files? Do you want dropdowns to allways print? Do you want all dropdowns to be open when a page loads?

Also, do you use twisties for dropdowns. If so, which method do you use? The standard RoboHelp method of a custom method (see http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/twisty/twisty.htm)

Greet,

Willam

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MackDuffAuthor

Known Participant

Basically I would like to have the drop-down open by default when a page loads.

The drop-down/expand links have been created using the 'Create expanding hotspot and text' and 'Create drop-down hotspot and text' from the DHTML menu in RH.

We are trying to generate a quick PDF from the output .chm file, but all the drop-down and expanded text does not appear in the PDF, which is problematic. I was thinking if we could auto-expand all the text by default, it will convert properly.

Thanks,

Mack

Willam van Weelden

Inspiring

Hi,

That will probably work, but it kind of defeats the purpose of having a dropdowns.

Why do you create a PDF from the CHM? Perhaps it's possible to generate the PDF from RH. You don't need to modify everything.

A second option is to allways show dropdowns in your print output. I don't use CHM's much, but if you create a pdf, you probably use the print option. In that case, you may want to control the dropdowns using css. This has double benefits: no coding for you and whenever a user prints a page, they allways print the dropdowns. To do this, add @media print {div.droptext { display: block !important; } } to your style sheet.

If you really want all dropdowns opened by default, your best bet is to have a script on every page that opens all dropdowns when the page is opened. This might be a lot of work, as you will need to add the script to every topic (or sneak it in by misusing the header/footer of the masterpage).

Greet,

Willam

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