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Willam van Weelden
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Willam van Weelden
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‎Mar 27, 2018
11:18 AM
The t= contains the path to the current topic that should be available. The current implementation requires this to be in the URL. Even if Adobe would rewrite this, there would probably be some other type of URL parameters. Some browsers (like Safari on Mac) hide this part of the URL. That leaves me to wonder why this is important. Is this confusing your readers in some way?
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‎Mar 17, 2018
03:18 AM
The process of changing the height is quite simple, if you are willing to dabble with the SCSS of the layout. First, download the source files from Adobe: RoboHelp screen profiles and layouts Second, download and install Koala: Koala - a gui application for LESS, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation. The application allows you to convert the SCSS file into a regular CSS. Then for the changes: Open the Layout.scss file of the Charcoal layout. Go to line 687. Change the value of the variable to your desired height. This changes the header on mobile phones: $heading-height-mobile: 3.125em; Go to line 1179. Change the value of the variable to your desired height. This changes the header on tablets: $heading-height-landscape: 4em; Go to line 1530. Change the value of the variable to your desired height. This changes the header on desktops: $heading-height-desktop: 7em; Start Koala and point it to the folder that holds the .scss file. It will convert the file automatically and you can use the CSS file in your output.
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‎Mar 12, 2018
08:14 AM
Hi Christina, You should not have to modify the HTML. But if you want to, there are two .SLP files. If you open them with Notepad++ or another text editor, you can find the menu and manually add text. But I believe this is fixed if you remove the language files and let RoboHelp restore them.
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‎Feb 28, 2018
10:17 AM
What is the index.htm file that they are calling? The highlighted code in the screen shot is not a valid RoboHelp context sensitive help call. If you go through the WebHelp main window, I would expect something like this: http://localhost/newproject_csh.htm#topicnumber=3,withnavpane=true (the topic number is the Map#) If you are using Responsive HTML5, I would expect something like this: http://localhost/index.htm?rhcsh=1&rhnewwnd=0&rhmapno=8 If I look at the code, the only way the highlighted code would work is if your index.htm contains some custom JavaScript to transform the id to a RoboHelp supported call. Point your developers to this resource. This lists all the options for them: https://www.helpessentials.com/2017/08/07/context-sensitivity-in-webhelp-and-flashhelp/
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‎Feb 27, 2018
08:49 AM
Another thought from Peter Grainge​. You can change the font size of the blocks so that they show more content. A smaller font set will allow for more text to be displayed. In your CSS, you will need to change: div.frontpage-toc.grid-5 div span.label { font-size: .75rem; } If you add a font size as above, more text will be displayed. The bolded 5 is the number of tiles selected to be displayed at the front page. So if you use a four grid row, search for grid-4 instead of grid-5. There is no need to set the font size for every device separately.
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‎Feb 23, 2018
08:37 AM
Hi, I'm afraid Rick is right and you'll need to dive into the layout.css. If your search for the text 'text-overflow: ellipsis;' that'll take you right to the correct location. The TOC grid consists of a DIV element with a hyperlink and a label. The label truncates the text if it doesn't fit. By removing the white-space, text-overflow and overflow properties, you can get the text to show up. From there on out, you can change the DIV element and hyperlink to correctly show the text you want to.
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‎Oct 21, 2017
01:09 AM
Which layout are you using? This looks like the Theme3_Black from RoboHelp 11. Is that correct? You can set the target in the .SLP files of the layout. There are 4 .slp files in this layout. You will have to edit every one of them: Glossary, Index, Table of Contents and Topic. Open the Theme3_Black folder with Windows Explorer. (In the !ScreenLayouts! folder.) Open all *.SLP files with notepad or another text editor. Under no circumstance open the SLP files with RoboHelp! RoboHelp doesn't understand the HTML and will break the layout completely. In the files, look for <td class="logo">. In my files, it's on line 19. Remove the Topic.slp from the href attribute. Add your own URL there. You can also add target="_blank" to open the link in a different browser tab:
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‎Sep 15, 2017
04:13 AM
1 Upvote
I'm a bit late to the party, but perhaps I can help a little. Which version of RoboHelp 11 do you have? There were some changes made to the behaviour in one of the patches, so make sure to be on the latest version. Another thing is that you have to manually *update* the screen layouts to take advantage of the changes. Simply add the layout to the project again from the gallery. (In the Output Set-up pod.) 1. Does this only occur with a CSH call? Or also when you open the help through the start? 2. This flickering is an issue solved in one of the patches. Note that you need to add the screen layout from the gallery again to get rid of the flickering. 3. This is normal. This is how RH knows which topic to show in the TOC. Especially when you have one topic multiple times in the TOC, this is what helps distinguishing one TOC entry from another.
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‎Aug 25, 2017
10:12 AM
Hi Jim, The show link is part of the RoboHelp output. So using URL's won't matter for that. The only thing the API does is integrate with your project and build the URL in the background. There is no restriction when using your own API. 2) I don't normally use popups. I think it's a bad practice and doesn't offer anything above simply opening a help window. The only thing you can do with popups is that you can open new help calls in the same window as the help. But I've never found this worth the effort as I wouldn't want people to whitelist my help. I normally just launch the URL in a new browser window and that works fine. (Avoiding the newwnd=1 altogether.) From a browser, just a window.open (in JavaScript) or in code, a new execute of the URL to open it in the deafult browser.
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‎Aug 18, 2017
08:39 AM
I don't normally use the RoboHelp API's. But you can always create the URL yourself and that works like a charm for me. The article simply shows how to build a URL that RoboHelp uses for context sensitivity. The localhost in the example is just that: an example. You can use any URL as long as the URL parameters work for you.
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‎Jul 31, 2017
12:11 PM
Did you update your RoboHelp version? The .ALI file changed structure at some point. the CPD is a temporary database. You can delete it without issue. And doing it automatically when you generate the other files is a good time.
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‎Jul 31, 2017
09:12 AM
How are the map files created? Are you generating the .h files outside of RoboHelp? In that case, you'll need to assign the id's to topics. Otherwise you'll just have a lot of id's but they're unmapped. If you're a developer, you can generate the .ALI file to map automatically. (Don't forget to delete the CPD before opening the project and generating the output.)
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‎Jul 18, 2017
01:12 AM
Since you get different behaviour, I think this would classify as a bug. Did you already create a bug report with Adobe? If so, please add your additional findings there. If you share the link to the bug, others can vote for it too in the hope that Adobe will give it more priority.
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‎Jul 15, 2017
01:25 AM
I tried the filter with a sample project and it gets applied correctly in the output. Is it the combination of CSH and a filter that is broken only?
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‎Jun 09, 2017
09:05 AM
The XSLT file I shared is a different type of file. It only aims at validating your MasterThemeSchema so that you can more quickly find issues. If half of the file is missing, trying to repair it isn't really an option. The quickest fix is to add the layout to the project again. Then, using File explorer, copy the MasterThemeSchema.xml from the correct output into your customised output. The Screen Layout editor is reset, but your previous changes in the layout (colors, images, settings) are retained.
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‎May 25, 2017
12:42 AM
Media queries are working for me as well. I can imagine the RoboHelp editor or preview not picking it up though. That one doesn't play with media queries like a browser. Also, some of the CSS may not be picked u by the RH editor even though it will work fine in a browser. For example: font:"1em/1.62em" The RoboHelp editor doesn't like em measurements and more 'complicated' css won't show as expected in the WYSYWIG environment.
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‎May 19, 2017
04:50 AM
Same for me; it won't load. You're writing that RoboHelp doesn't use the queries. Where in RH are you expecting the queries to be adhered? In the WYSIWYG editor, you can choose a media query to apply for the editor. It doesn't switch automatically. If the output does work, is there a problem?
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‎May 10, 2017
11:03 AM
The template you downloaded is based on an Adobe Template for RH11. This one isn't much different. But you'll need a slightly different CSS. The following works: @media screen and (min-width: 81em) div.header { background-image: url(https://image.freepik.com/free-icon/apple-logo_318-40184.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: right center; background-size: contain; } The other devices are similar. There are 4 media queries if I remember correctly. But the CSS should carry over.
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‎May 08, 2017
04:05 AM
Hmm. I would expect the search bar to be shown if the UX=search is included. You can always change the default pane to be shown. For Azure blue and Charcoal grey, there's a setting below the 'Basic settings' of the layout.
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‎May 08, 2017
03:56 AM
1 Upvote
You can add a background image to the header with CSS: div.header { background-image: url('my_image.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: right center; }
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‎May 08, 2017
03:45 AM
@Rick: It is a glorified redirector. But it abstracts from the RoboHelp API and can be used to work around changes in RoboHelp or limitations of the Indigo layout.
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‎May 03, 2017
08:32 AM
I can think of another option if you want to stick with the ID's. Mostly when using context sensitive help, I build a facade that gets the CSH call from the application. Based on the information from RH (I generate that with a script), the facade builds the correct URL for the help. You may still see a quick flash because you first land on the facade, but from there on out, RoboHelp will behave as expected.
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‎May 03, 2017
07:12 AM
The script I originally posted worked for me, but I have added some more checks to make it more reliable. I've tested it offline as well and it seems to work. (See below) Another option is to open the topics based on URL. If you open: http://example.com/index.htm#t=path/to/topic.htm It opens the correct topic and you don't have the flickering issues of opening the topic and redirecting to the skin. You can change the look and feel of the 'show' banner in the projectdata.js file or in the seed files. The show banner does seem to get the look and feel from the skin that you've applied somehow, but I'm not sure how that works. Anyway, you can change the entire appearance in the JS file (be prepared for HTML and CSS) or by editing the seed files: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe RoboHelp 2017\RoboHTML\ResponsiveHelpExt\template_stock\topicHeader.htm C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe RoboHelp 2017\RoboHTML\ResponsiveHelpExt\template_stock\topicHeader.css Updated script to add to header/footer <script type="text/javascript"> function checkHelpWindow() { if(window.self === window.top) { if(typeof(rh) != "undefined") { setTimeout(function(){rh._.redirectToLayout();}, 100); } } } (function(){ rh.model.subscribe(rh.consts('EVT_PROJECT_LOADED'), checkHelpWindow); }.call(this)); </script>
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‎Apr 28, 2017
07:18 AM
It can be done with CSS and requires just a little work to set up. It is basically a two step process: Create and assign an image style to the images you want to hide on mobile. Set the image style to hide the images on mobile devices. Set up image style In the RoboHelp CSS editor, create an image style. You can use any name you want. Just don't assign any formatting, unless you specifically need it. For example, you can create a style named hideOnMobile. In the topics, assign the style (using the Styles and Formatting pod) to the images you want to hide on mobile. Set image style to hide on mobile For the next part, you need a little CSS coding. RoboHelp can't do this through the editor, so open the CSS file in Notepad or the RH Code editor. Paste the code below into the CSS (doesn't matter where). Here I assume your style is named hideOnMobile. @media (max-width:320px) { img.hideOnMobile { display: none; } } The 320px is the width of the device. Every device with 320px in width or less will hide the content. Now simply generate and you're done. If it isn't working I ran into this the other day for another project. The code may not work even though your CSS is fine. Browsers may require a viewport meta tag to correctly interpret the width. The viewport is available in the Screen Layout, but it may be that you need it to topics as well. If you don't see a result, add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> to the topics. You can do a find and replace operation to add this code to the <head> section of every topic. (Search for <head>, replace with <head><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">) You can read more about the viewport here: Responsive Web Design Viewport
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‎Apr 21, 2017
04:45 AM
On Tablet and Mobile layout? Or both of them? If you refresh the browser with Ctrl + F5 to force the cache, do you still see the issue?
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‎Apr 21, 2017
03:00 AM
2 Upvotes
Did you open using the RoboHelp editor? The RoboHelp editor doesn't understand the HTML in layout and will rewrite it if you just open it. Please get the original Topic.slp file (By adding the layout again) and copy it to your modified layout. Then open the Topic.slp with Notepad outside of RoboHelp to make the change. That should fix your problem.
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‎Apr 21, 2017
02:59 AM
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Adobe hasn't released the SCSS files for this one, so it's a bit tricky. Please try the linked CSS. There are quite a few changes I made, so test it before using it please. From a CSS perspective, you can also add the following to your CSS: body.media-desktop div.frontpage-function-buttons div.grid-buttons>div:first-child:nth-last-of-type(1){margin-left:23.75rem}body.media-desktop div.frontpage-function-buttons div.grid-buttons>div:first-child:nth-last-of-type(2){margin-left:17.8125rem}body.media-desktop div.frontpage-function-buttons div.grid-buttons>div:first-child:nth-last-of-type(3){margin-left:11.875rem}body.media-desktop div.frontpage-function-buttons div.grid-buttons>div:first-child:nth-last-of-type(4){margin-left:5.9375rem} This CSS selects the number of elements (buttons) you have. And if it is 4 or fewer (the bar can accommodate 5 as the class is grid-5) it amends the margin of the first element to center align.
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‎Apr 19, 2017
07:08 AM
Hmm. In that case you will need the MSSCCI provider for 2015: Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013&2015 MSSCCI Provider 32-bit - Visual Studio Marketplace The error message you posted seems to imply that the TFS client couldn't be loaded for connecting to the repository. Perhaps upgrading the MSSCCI provider helps. Did you successfully map the repository to a location on your disk in the workspace?
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‎Apr 19, 2017
02:57 AM
What version of the MSSCCI provider did you install? And what version of the Team Foundation client/VS do you have installed?
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‎Apr 18, 2017
06:15 AM
Did you check out the *.fpj files? And did you remove the .CPD file before opening the project again?
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