Integrating Flash Animations – Summary

Integrating Flash Animations – Summary
In this article you’ve seen how to add simple linear animations and control their pl …

Creating and Customizing Online Documentation ...

The need for online user assistance is growing faster than ever. If you or your company sells products or online services, then chances …

Creating a New Project

Creating a New Project
Creating a new Project in RoboHelp Office X5 is as simple as clicking a few buttons. If you create your document …

Importing Documents and Applying Styles

Importing Documents and Applying Styles
With RoboHelp, you can import many different formats. You have seen how easy it is to import HT …

Adding Media to Pages

Adding Media to Pages
With RoboHelp, it’s easy to add media to your documentation or help system. Often, by adding media, you can …

Adding Links to Pages

Adding Links to Pages
After you have more than a handful of pages in your project, navigation becomes important. Perhaps your site, Fla …

Adding Headers and Footers To Your Project

Adding Headers and Footers To Your Project
Headers and footers behave almost exactly like those in Microsoft Word. Use them to easily s …

Building a Glossary

Building a Glossary
The Glossary feature in RoboHelp is similar to setting up a dictionary: You can add several terms and their associa …

Changing Skins

Changing Skins
Creating online documentation for websites is all about customization. Nobody likes to use a standard interface anymore. …

Incorporating into an Existing Website

Incorporating into an Existing Website
Although the files created by RoboHelp look fine on their own, they don’t always look cons …

Providing Context-Sensitive Help for Web Appli ...

Providing Context-Sensitive Help for Web Applications
RoboHelp authors need to have a thick skin. Face it. Web application users often …

Author and Developer: A Context-Sensitive Part ...

Author and Developer: A Context-Sensitive Partnership
Typically web applications use a dynamic, database-driven scripting language such …

Determining the Help Access Points

Determining the Help Access Points
As you can see in the Builder Data Bank scenario (see Figure 1), an author and developer agree to pr …

Creating a Single-Source Project

Creating a Single-Source Project
Once the documentation is written, edit the topics to accommodate two conditions (see Figure 2):

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Defining Three Windows to Display Topics

Defining Three Windows to Display Topics
In the RoboHelp Project Manager, open the Windows virtual folder and create three new windows, …

Creating Conditional Build Tags

Creating Conditional Build Tags
From the Program Manager, right-click the Conditional Build Tags virtual folder and create two tags, as …

Creating a New Map File and Assigning Numbers ...

Creating a New Map File and Assigning Numbers to Help Topics
Open the virtual Context-Sensitive Help folder and then open the Map Files …

Generating Window and Field-Level Versions of ...

Generating Window and Field-Level Versions of WebHelp
Now that you have assigned the conditional build tags and defined the windows, i …

Giving the WebHelp API and Documentation to th ...

Giving the WebHelp API and Documentation to the Developer
The WebHelp Application Programming Interface (API) includes a number of prep …

Generating Reports to Help Developer Map Topic ...

Generating Reports to Help Developer Map Topics to the Application
Select Tools > Reports > Map IDs to generate a Map ID and numb …