Context Sensitivity in Browser based AIR help

Submitted by Willam van Weelden on

This article provides an overview of the way context sensitivity works in browser based AIR help generated by RoboHelp. This article shows you how you can create URLs to call your help context sensitive. This allows you to create your own context sensitive help calls and allows you to create your own API. I focus on developers and others who want to know what options are available to them.

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Transparent span remover

Submitted by Willam van Weelden on

Some users have reported that RoboHelp 8 and 9 sometimes mysteriously add styling to topics that makes the text transparent. The transparent text is not visible in Internet Explorer or in the RoboHelp WYSISYG, The code that RoboHelp inserts in the HTML is: <span style="color: Transparent;">

The attached script will quickly remove all these transparent texts from your project. Download the script, import it into RoboHelp and run. Note that the script may take several minutes to execute on large projects.

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Zombie <span> Tag Apocalypse cleaner

Submitted by Willam van Weelden on

If you open a project in RoboHelp 9 without patch 9.0.1 installed, you may end up with the Zombie tag apocalypse: All your topics filled with empty, useless tags. This script will quickly remove all empty tags from your topics, snippets and master pages. Download the script, import and run.

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Captivate in RoboHelp

Submitted by Willam van Weelden on

There are several ways of adding Captivate movies in RoboHelp projects. In WebHelp my preferred way is to put the movie into a popup. This way the movie doesn't clutter the text. The downside of the default RoboHelp method is that you need to add an extra topic just to hold the Captivate movie.

But I want to add only the SWF without having to create extra topics. The attached script provides a function to automatically create a popup for Captivate movies. The script generates the required HTML and CSS on the fly.

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Context Sensitivity Tester for WebHelp

Submitted by Willam van Weelden on

RoboHelp 9 provides a program to test the context sensitivity of your WebHelp projects. This CSH tester is located in the Tools pod.

Unfortunately, the CSH tester only supports testing map numbers. For this reason my custom WebHelp APIs contain example programs to test the context sensitivity. If you are looking for a simple program to test the context sensitivity of your projects, download the C# CSH tester. Unzip the executable and the pdf files. Run the program and enjoy.

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Getting Started with ExtendScript in RoboHelp

Submitted by Willam van Weelden on

One of the most powerful and perhaps one of the most neglected features of RoboHelp is scripting. Scripting allows you to automate repetitive tasks and can save you many hours of dull work. A script can reset image dimensions, convert text to variables, add index entries, create context sensitivity, count the words in your project, and so on.

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Right to left help

Submitted by Willam van Weelden on

This article shows you how you can modify your WebHelp output to create right to left help. For this I'm greatly indebted to Pertti Metsanheimo who did all the testing. I created a fix for right to left languages in a forum thread that he started. Here you will find a (slightly improved) summary of the solution.

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