RoboHelp to Flare: Migrating tables using Python
When we began migrating our large documentation set from RoboHelp to Flare, it was clear from the start that the main problem would be the migration of the t...
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VBA: batch changing document properties
After a rebranding, the names of the two products we documented changed, so we had to update the properties of a few hundred Word documents. In our case, the...
RoboHelp: troubleshooting content not being hidden in the output
Conditional tags can be tricky to troubleshoot in RoboHelp if you are not super familiar with how they work, and sometimes you may wonder why some content yo...
RoboHelp: troubleshooting missing variables and conditional tags
We often have problems with RoboHelp elements such as variables, conditional build tags, baggage files, etc that go missing. This post gives a few pointers o...
RoboHelp: batch automation (rhcl.exe)
Although it doesn’t seem to be too well-known, the command line version of RoboHelp can be extremely useful for automating help builds partially or completel...
RoboHelp: making bulk SSL changes
RoboHelp’s interface is pretty intuitive, and once you understand what each option does it’s not difficult to generate an online help system. But what do you...
RoboHelp: search optimization
The background We have a rather large online help system - about 6000 topics in 40 separate modules - generated using RoboHelp, in WebHelp format, and delive...