Hi, can you post your style sheet, as wel as this topic so we can have a look? Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, If going back one page reopens the help, going back two pages just might work. You can create a custom back button with history.go(-2) to go back two pages. Perhaps you can get it to work with that from your help. Greet, Willam ... View more

Ha, I thought you came up with all that crazy stuff Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, I don't know if you can modify the header from the style mapping.dot, but it may be worthwhile to explore the styleref field of MS Word. You use it to display the text from a specific style, such as Heading 1 for eacht chapter. This would mean that you can at least generate a single document, so it should be a little less work. Greet, Willam ... View more

You use conditional build tag within a topic to tag specific text, tables, images, etc. You can still output the topic, but exclude certain text, paragraphs etc. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, What do you mean when you say that you suppress certain topics? Do you mean that they should not be in your output? If so, be sure to apply the conditional build tag in the properties of the topic. If you only apply the conditional build tag in the TOC and the Index, the references will disappear, but the files will still be in your output. The search can indeed still find them. Select the properties of the topic, and in the tab advanced, select the conditional build tag. Next time you generate your output, the topics will no longer be in your output (if you select which cbt to exclude that is.) Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Yes, new tables are CSS based, which is a major improvement. I agree you cannot make a change that will apply to all the CSS based tables [...]. Yes, that's my point. If you don't have much tables, it won't be a problem using the Style dialog, I agree with you. Since the original question was how to apply global styles, I stick to my first answer , manually add TABLE{} to your style sheet if you're comfortable using CSS. If you do it from the styles dialog, you have another good solution, which will probably work for most people. You're absolutely right about that - I did miss the table styles at first Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, That's not exactly what I meant. The problem is with global styles, ie styles that apply to all elements, such as all tables, regardless whether they were made in RH7, RH8, Dreamweaver, etc. Whether they use inline styling or not. It seems to me that such styles (as TABLE{}, TR{}, TH{}, etc) can only be created manually in your style sheet. The method on your site is the method that Robo8 started to support and the method that most people comfortable with html and css probably already used in Robo7. 'Even' if you used this method, it seems that you cannot set a global style in the style dialog to address all table classes. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, In an attemt to clarify the lists a bit, I posted two solutions for using lists. See this post, post 33. Greet, Willam ... View more

I did play around with the style dialog, but as you said, it's not very intuitive... I found it a bit of a pain You made me wonder though: 1. I thought the Robo Tables all use inline markup, so defining tables trough the Style dialog doesn't seem such a good option to me, especially with legacy project where tables haven't been created from a table 'style' defined in the style dialog. 2. Can you actually define a style in Style dialog that applies to ALL tables in your project, no matter how they were created? I assumed/thought/found that you could only set table styles for tables you create there. Greet, Willam ... View more

I think/hope? you can set non standard characters, but that will probably involve some playing around with the server settings. I found a lot of topics on Google searching for 'Tomcat 6 character encoding', so you may want to search around a bit. You can start by this article: http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding in the tomcat documentation, but I'm afraid this is as far as I can help you. Succes, greets, Willam ... View more

You can always kill Robo by going to the Proces tab in the task manager. Find RoboHTML.exe (if you use RoboHTML) and click End process. That'll teach him Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Open your stylesheet in an external editor. Add TABLE {} and add the styling between the brackets. See this page for the available styling. One note: Every style you create in your style sheet can be overwritten by inline styling. If you have this problem, use the !important statement to overwrite inline styling from your style sheet. Say that you want all tables to have a top margin of 15px, also the tables that have a different margin applied. Use the following style: TABLE {      margin-top: 15px !important; } Greet, Willam ... View more

In an attempt to clarify: -> You cannot define an image for a RoboHelp 8 Multilevel list, if you want bullet images, skip this part. You use a multilevel list for a sequence with characters, such as simple bullets, numbers, alpha characters, etc. -> You can use these methods without having to worry about html and css. There are other solutions if you manually write your CSS. -> This is just one way of working with multilevel lists, there are othersmethods, as this attempt is in no way exhaustive. -> Yes, these methods are more work than you had to do in Robo7, but there's not much I can do about that How creat a multilevel list? You define a multi level list in the styles dialog. I'd suggest creating a paragraph and style it any way you want. Do not apply the autonumber yet. If you defined separate paragaphs for every level, create a new multilevel list. Make sure that Apply formatting to is set to level one. At Paragraph style, select the paragraph you created for the the first level. Now select the sequency you want to use for level 1 in List style (or create a new sequence). In edit style, behind <x>, set the characters you want to use after the sequence character. Now select Level 2 in the drop down of Apply formatting to. Set the paragraph and list style and repeat this for every list style. How do I apply this list? Click the Multilevel list icon and select the list you want to use in Available list styles. Set the numbering and the level at the bottom om the dialog. Press OK and you're ready to go. How does this end up in your output? Speaking for WebHelp, RoboHelp adds the sequence character as text within your paragraph. It uses a lot of spaces to place it, but it works, altough it isn't pretty. How to create a multilevel list with bullet images? Well, you can't use the RoboHelp multilevel list. Instead, you use the lists you may already know. First, creat a new list in the styles dialog, this is the list for the first level. Style it any way you like, but you only have to set the bullet image, as any other styling will be overwritten by the paragraph you use. Now create a new list, this will be the list for the second level. Add a bullet image for this style and set the left (or right) indent, so it will indent further than the first level. As an example,if you've set the first list to 10px, set the second list to 20px. Now create a new list style for every level you want. How do I apply this list? Click the ordered/unordered list item and right click on the sequence character, normally a number or a bullet. Now select Bullets and numbering. In the Bullets and numbering dialog, go to the tab Custom. Select the list style you want to use, if you start the list, this is the first style you created. Click OK and type your text. If you want a different level, select the list items you want on another level. Right click on the sequence character and open the Bullets and numbering dialog. Go to the custom tab again and select the list style you want to use. Click OK and continue working. Whenever you need another level, repeat this process. It may be wise to create a template topic in which you place a couple of lists, so you can easily copy and paste your lists. I hope that this clarifies the 'new' RoboHelp lists a bit. How you would use this for a legacy project completely depends on the way you used to work and how your style sheet is created. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, You can embed a visio file (not adding a link to the file, but displaying it in the browser), but this solution will only work for Internet Explorer, you'll need other codebases for other browsers. The question is if you want to use the object itself, instead of a picture. Note: 1. The following is a solution in Robo7, but should work fine in Robo8. 2. In Robo7, I can only get it to work for WebHelp, NOT for CHM, but I'm not very familiar with CHM so there might be a way and it might work in Robo8 CHM anyway. First, add the visio file as a baggage file. Second, in the topic, go to HTML mode and add the following code:       <object classid='CLSID:279D6C9A-652E-4833-BEFC-312CA8887857' codebase='http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=90&p=&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=d88e4542-b174-4198-ae31-6884e9edd524&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2f6%2ff%2f5%2f6f569198-e7d0-49af-b162-54a11f38d301%2fvisioviewer.exe' id='viewer1' width='100%' height='400' > <param name='BackColor' value='16777215'> <param name='AlertsEnabled' value='true'> <param name='ContextMenuEnabled' value='true'> <param name='GridVisible' value='false'> <param name='HighQualityRender' value='true'> <param name='PageColor' value='12632256'> <param name='PageVisible' value='false'> <param name='PageTabsVisible' value='false'> <param name='PropertyDialogEnabled' value='true'> <param name='ScrollbarsVisible' value='false'> <param name='ToolbarVisible' value='true'> <param name='SRC' value='https://mywiki.domain.com/Validator+Diagram.vsd'> <param name='CurrentPageIndex' value='0'> <param name='Zoom' value='-1'> </object> Modify the height and the width in the <object> tag, to fit your needs. In the <param> tag SRC (third from below), add the url to your file. You can modify the other <param> tags as you see fit. Now output and view in Internet Explorer. Source for this: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/CVP-4 Greet, Willam Added URL to the page I got the <object> tag. ... View more

I guess the encoding should be the same as the encoding on the server. What I could find on Google told me that the strange characters you are seeing probably are the decoding of your Russian (Cyrillic) characters in the filename. I suppose that the language of the server should be Russian, but since I only use latin characters, I can't say for sure. I think that the problem is with the Cyrillic characters, but another forum member may know for sure. You can try to upload a dummy project without Cyrillic characters. If that works, rename the files with Cyrillic characters. If it breaks then, you'll at least know the problem. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Do you have a topic in the directory projects_fhpro/BAZAnew/ with special characters, such as $, ë, (, ?, and so on? This looks like you have a topic with a filename that your webserver cannot read. Greet, Willam ... View more

LOL, I hope not. If your problem persists, please post back. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, What happens if you use New Task in the task manager to start RoboHelp? Does it start? Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Try looking in the running Processes in the Task manager. RoboHTML.exe should run when you try to open it. What happens if you end the process and try to restart RoboHelp? Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, This may be a bit too much, but did you reboot your machine? You may have done this, but rebooting sometimes works miracles. Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, My guess is that the computers that see an incorrect search pane render the page in pure HTML mode, which happens when the DHTML or Java cannot be loaded. If a user disables JavaScript, you can't expect the DHTML webhelp to function, so this partly depends on the security settings and your output. The problem with your server may be a security issue on your server itself, if it blocks certain scripts/functions, your output cannot render in DHTML mode and will fall back to the pure HTML mode. Try to see if anything changed on your server and whether that causes this behaviour. Greet, Willam ... View more

I don't know about that, since the Multi level lists should do the trick if you use them correct (though Amebr will disagree ). You can create those lists without any CSS or HTML knowledge, but you have to do it the right way. -- If you drink a beer from a Vodka glass, you can complain about having to refill every time, but you should have picked a beer glass Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Your local files are just a working folder, the files in the source control database are the source files. Everyone participating in the project can get the current version from the database. Checking out is needed in order to modify the file and checking in means sending it to the database. RoboHelp can check out all files needed. If you simply open a topic and start typing, RoboHelp will check out the files automatically (if you set the options and use Robo to control the source control database). Read http://www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp/articles/robosource.html, it gives a good overview of Robo7 and Robo Source Control 3. Greet, Willam ... View more

For the good order.. The document.location.href com object doesn't work anymore in XHTML, instead you have to use document.URL (match the case!). This is not true, my bad The document.location is a javascript object and document.URL is the HTML DOM object. You would use document.location to redirect someone to a page and you use document.URL to retreive the URL of the current document. Greet, Willam ... View more

Strange, probably another IE-bug As long as it works now... Greet, Willam ... View more

Hi, Which navigation icons are you talking about? Are you by any change talking about the browse sequence buttons? What RoboHelp flavour and version are you using and what is your output (WebHelp, HTML Help, etc)? Greet, Willam ... View more