|
Topic |
Covers |
| AIR Help |
How AIR Help works. |
| Articles, Blogs and Suchlike |
A list of particularly useful sources of information for authoring generally and for working with RoboHelp. |
|
Auto Expand Dropdown Text |
This topic describes two methods of creating a link to another topic
and opening it with a particular dropdown or expanding text hotspot displayed. |
| Browsers |
Some of the problems seen with non IE
browsers. |
|
Calling Webhelp |
This topic covers
- Calling WebHelp using URLs
- Calling WebHelp using Map IDs
- Calling Merged WebHelp using Map IDs
- Calling WebHelp using Topic IDs
|
|
CHM Files Not Working |
This topic covers the issues caused by Microsoft Security Update MS05-026. |
|
Customising Help |
This topic covers the issues surrounding the request from customers
to have customised help.
It covers a nice method of providing links to their documentation or
intranets so that the links only show in the help if the customer enters
the path.
The topic also links to
- A topic on terminology to cover different
customers wanting to use different terms for the same thing, for example Depot
/ Warehouse.
- An alternative method which also allows the customer
to set up bubble text over such words or any other word in the help.
|
| Dropdowns |
Methods of creating dropdown text that
will work in any editor. |
|
Eclipse |
Think of Windows Explorer just showing you the files and folders you
use without all the stuff others have on the network, and then being able
to say, now I only want to see the files and folders for Project X. That's
what Eclipse can give you. Also you can launch all your programs from
it. On top of that, it's free, but don't think it's lightweight. |
|
Highlighting Search Results |
Description of Calvin Ly's method of highlighting search results in
webhelp. |
|
HTML |
Covers some of the problem areas regularly seen on the RoboHelp forum. |
|
Importing Word Documents |
This topic now covers the X5 import wizard in detail as well as still
showing how I import troublesome Word documents and M J Plaster's classic
topic on using the RoboHelp 2002 import wizard. |
|
Installing and Activating RoboHelp |
Problems encountered installing and activating RoboHelp |
|
Links to dropdown and expanding
text |
How to create a link to dropdown and / or expanding text in another
topic so that the text is displayed for the user. |
|
Javahelp Basics |
An introduction to JavaHelp. |
|
Javascript Basics |
A bit of information from my look into the world of javascript. |
|
Lowercase - Changing file names to |
How to change your file names and hyperlinks to lowercase. |
|
Merging WebHelp |
Guides to working with merging help and a method that avoids the problem of links
between the parent project and the child projects. |
|
Opening Projects |
Ways of opening projects with corrupt files or in an earlier version
of RoboHelp |
|
Password Protecting a Folder |
How to password protect a folder on a Unix server. |
|
Publishing WebHelp |
How to keep your server neat and tidy. |
|
Printed Output |
A guide to how to produce printed output and deal with some of the frequently
encountered problems. |
| Procedures and Style Guide |
The internal procedures and style guide used by CedarOpenAccounts |
|
Regular Expressions |
If you write your own expressions to find string patterns, this is a
table setting out the characters used. |
|
Reverse Engineering |
Sometimes you only have the output files for webhelp or a compiled chm
file and nobody can locate the source files. This topic covers how to
recover from that situation. |
|
Reviewing Help |
Methods of making topics available to reviewers,
including the use of Macromedia's Contribute
product. |
| Right to Left Help |
How to (ab)use RoboHelp to produce help for right to left languages. |
| RoboHelp Tour |
What's new and changed in the latest version of RoboHelp plus information about other features of RoboHelp. |
| Searching with ZoomSearch |
How to improve you search page with Google
like results and multiple search options including searches outside your
project. |
| SharePoint |
An entry level article on getting help working in SharePoint 2007 |
| Snippets |
Odds and ends that can be lifesavers. |
| Standard Text |
A method of inserting one topic inside
another to give standard paragraphs. Not without some issues. |
| Tables |
How to allow users to sort table rows
by clicking the column headings and how to highlight rows on mouseover.
How to add preformatted tables to the preformatted tables supplied with
RoboHelp. |
|
Topic Editors |
How to set up RH to automatically open different topics in different
editors. |
|
TOC Width |
How to change the width of the TOC, Index and Search frame. |
|
Twisties and Show / Hide |
Shows how to emulate a Lotus Notes twisty where an arrow changes direction
to highlight dropdown text, plus Show All / Hide All buttons. |
|
Useful Links |
Various sites that I have found useful. |
|
Word Master TOC |
How to create a Contents section spanning a number of Word documents. |
|
Word Macros |
Various word macros to make life that bit easier. |
| X5
Baggage Bug |
What to do when RoboHelp will not automatically
add baggage files. |
|
X5 Keywords Bug |
How to deal with an X5 bug when importing topics from earlier versions
with keywords stored in the topic. |
