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Hi guys,
Just wanted to find out if people using RH2017 are experiencing this problem (I'm on RH11, Multiscreen HTML5).
Conditions: Output contains dropdowns with Twisties enabled, skin/screen layout includes Highlight Search Results checkbox.
1. Search for a word that occurs inside a dropdown.
2. Select the Highlight Search Results checkbox.
3. Click the search results link for the topic with a dropdown.
Can you confirm that the twisty image is not "twisting" when the dropdown is opened because of search highlighting? That is, it is still in the "closed" position, even though the dropdown text is displayed?
e.g. In the image below:
I've quickly tested Multiscreen HTML5 and Webhelp in RH11 and see the same behaviour in both outputs.
Many thanks
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Okay, what you have demonstrated is that for you, when you search, the results aren't showing the proper image.
What about when you click the link? Do the twisties work okay then?
My gut says we will discover this is a bug in the programming.
Cheers... Rick
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Yep, once I click the dropdown link the images twist, but that one remains "backwards" which is very disconcerting. (I'm kinda hoping it's fixed in 2017, but I feel like it probably isn't... )
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I think I see what is going on here. It used to be that if a search found a term in a dropdown, the content was not expanded so the user was confused. Then in response to requests they changed things so that the search does expand the dropdowns with the search term. However, it is not expanding it by clicking the dropdown so the javascript that turns the twisty is not being deployed.
Are you using the method on my site and Willam's or the method built into RoboHelp?
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I tested in the sample project (for the screenshot) so I think that's just Robohelp's method.
In our live help we have an "Expand All Links" javascript file to allow a button to expand the dropdowns in some topics, but I'll have to check if an alternate twisty method is implemented.
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I've checked and we are using Willam's twisty script only for the Expand All Links single button method. The twisties themselves are the Robohelp implementation.
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With that out of the way, then I agree with Rick that it looks like a bug. You know what's coming.
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