6/27/2023 0 Comments Adobe robohelp customer support![]() On the Status tab, you'll find a fair amount of information you can add to any topic such as Status, Priority code, number of hours spent working on the topic and even a handy To Do List.īut check out the To Do List (shown below). Show the Properties of any RoboHelp topic. Once added to the topics, Status information can be viewed in a handy report via Tools > Reports > Project Status. However, you might be pleasantly surprised to learn that you can add some project-management type information to your project topics. But it will never be confused with a high-powered project management application like Microsoft Project. On the TOC, the more likely it will be that they will use the TOC to find andĪdobe RoboHelp is a wonderful help authoring tool. Believe it or not, the more your customers see the topic The Index to find a topic that is on the TOC. Single Source Layouts pod, show the Properties of either FlashHelp or WebHelp.Ĭlick the Next button and select Synchronize Table of Contents and then select TOC while customers use the Index or Search feature to get help. There is simply very littleĬhance that the topic in question is open for the customer toĬontents feature will automatically show where a topic is located on the Made up of books inside of books inside of books. The problem is that a typical TOC might be They were looking for on the TOC, there's a good chance they would click the Logical to the person who created the TOC. Help author, the TOC is typically laid out in a logical order that's only To the TOC first when looking for Help? As helpful as the TOC might seem to a Instead, customers they will typically look to Seemingly helpful TOC, most Help System customers will not look to the TOC first However, even while most Help Authors take the time to create a detailed and System is the Table of Contents (the Index and Search features are the others). One of the three most common features of any help There's a callout to the right and a squiggly line. (One would use Word's Wrap feature on an object to control exactly where that object appears in the Word layout.) For example, in the image below Word's Wrap Text was set to Tight. This is especially true if you use any of Word's Wrap Text features other than Inline with Text. However, once imported into a RoboHelp project the resulting collection of screen capture, line and callout will rarely look very good. You can use the Shapes feature to quickly draw a line or a callout to a screen capture inserted into a Word document. The shapes may look just fine in Word. Let's take Word's ability to wrap text around an item and the Shapes feature as examples. For instance, the more complex the Word layout, the higher the risk that something will go wrong when that layout is imported into RoboHelp. ![]() Unfortunately, during the import process there's potential trouble around every corner. Many people who use RoboHelp also use Word as the main authoring tool for the content that will be imported into RoboHelp. Word can create some pretty complex stuff, but it's not for me. I'm not going to venture any deeper into the muck. In fact, if you're really comfortable using the program, you can create a book that looks every bit as good as those produced by desktop publishers using programs such as QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign or Adobe FrameMaker.
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