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 …

Validating the Links and Testing for Usability

Validating the Links and Testing for Usability
Once the developer has coded the links, validate the links by testing them in the applic …

Incorporating RoboDemo Movies into Online Help ...

Macromedia RoboHelp is the premier tool for developing online Help in a variety of formats: FlashHelp, WebHelp, HTML Help, WinHelp, Jav …

Why Use RoboDemo Flash Movies in Help Files?

Why Use RoboDemo Flash Movies in Help Files?
Due to evolving standards for online Help files, Help developers have become more and more …

Including a RoboDemo Movie in a Topic

Including a RoboDemo Movie in a Topic
To include a RoboDemo movie in an existing topic, you have two options: You can use the menu item …

Importing the RoboDemo SWF and HTML File as a ...

Importing the RoboDemo SWF and HTML File as a Topic
An easy way to incorporate a RoboDemo movie into an HTML Help file is to bring the …

Playing the Movie as an EXE

Playing the Movie as an EXE
You can export your RoboDemo movie as an EXE file. To play the RoboDemo movie as a standalone Flash project …

Playing the Movie in a Custom Window

Playing the Movie in a Custom Window
Displaying RoboDemo movies in custom windows is really a very nice effect, mainly because such a m …