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  1. RoboHelp User Guide
  2. What’s new
    1. What’s new in Adobe RoboHelp (2026 release)
    2. Adobe RoboHelp release notes (2026 release) 
    3. What’s new in Adobe RoboHelp (2022 release)   
  3. Introduction
    1. Get to know RoboHelp workspace
    2. RoboHelp System Requirements
    3. Download RoboHelp on Windows and macOS
    4. Download and install Adobe app
    5. RoboHelp FAQs
  4. Projects
    1. Plan your RoboHelp project
    2. Create a project
    3. Manage projects
    4. Work with topics and folders
    5. Generate reports
    6. Work with context-sensitive help
    7. Manage References
    8. Set preferences in RoboHelp
  5. Collaborate with authors
    1. Collaborate using Git
    2. Collaborate using SharePoint Online
    3. Collaborate using Azure DevOps (Team Foundation Server)
  6. PDF Layout
    1. PDF templates
    2. Design a page layout
    3. Publish PDF output
    4. Work with the common content styles
    5. Components of a PDF template
    6. Support for language variables
    7. Customize PDFs
  7. Editing and formatting
    1. Format your content
    2. Create and manage cross-references
    3. Create and manage links
    4. Single-source with snippets
    5. Work with images and multimedia
    6. Create and use variables for easy updates
    7. Work with Variable Sets
    8. Use Find and Replace
    9. Auto save your content
    10. Side-by-side editing in Split View
    11. Use the Spell Check feature
    12. Create and Edit Bookmarks
    13. Insert and update fields
    14. Switch between multiple views
    15. Autonumbering in CSS
  8. Import and linking
    1. Import Markdown files into a project
    2. Import Word documents into a project
    3. Import FrameMaker documents into a project
  9. TOCs, indexes, glossaries, and citations
    1. Create and manage a Table of Contents
    2. Create and manage an index
    3. Create and manage a glossary
    4. Create and manage citations
    5. Create and manage browse sequences
    6. Work with See Also and Related Topics
  10. Conditional content
    1. What is conditional content
    2. Create and apply condition tags
    3. Configure output presets for conditional content
    4. Optimize and manage conditional content
  11. Microcontent
    1. Microcontent
  12. Review and Collaboration
    1. Review and Collaboration
  13. Translation
    1. Translating content to multiple languages
    2. Configure a translation framework for a service provider
  14. Generating output
    1. Generate output
    2. Generate Frameless output
    3. Generate Knowledge Base output
    4. Generate PDF output
    5. Generate Responsive HTML5 output
    6. Generate Word Document output
    7. Generate Content Only output
    8. Generate eBook output
    9. Generate Microsoft HTML Help output
    10. Generate Mobile App output
  15. Publish output
    1. Publish to a RoboHelp Server
    2. Publish to an FTP server, a Secure FTP server, or a File System
    3. Publish to SharePoint Online
    4. Publish to Zendesk Help Center
    5. Publish to Salesforce Knowledge Base
    6. Publish to ServiceNow Knowledge Base
    7. Publish to Zoho Knowledge Base
    8. Publish to Adobe Experience Manager
    9. Publish to Atlassian Confluence Knowledge Base
  16. Appendix
    1. Adobe RoboHelp Scripting Reference
    2. RoboHelp keyboard shortcuts
    3. Introduction to Frameless skin editor
    4. Troubleshooting command-line preset output generation failure

This article lists the issues fixed in the latest release of Adobe RoboHelp, including fixes provided through subsequent patch updates.

For known issues, workarounds, and late‑breaking information, visit the RoboHelp community.

For detailed information about features, configuration, and usage, visit the RoboHelp User Guide.

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Release date: March 27, 2026

Version

win

2026.03.13

mac

2026.03.11

Application

  • Adding the same snippet to a topic more than once results in only a single instance being added, preventing multiple insertions of the same snippet. (Bug ID: 13499)

Publishing

Frameless

  • When a project is published to a server, clicking any topic link in the right‑panel mini-TOC results in a 404 error. (Bug ID: 13449)
  • Updates to the CBT evaluation logic results in incorrect rendering of show or hide content in the  generated output. (Bug ID: 13473)

Release date: January 29, 2026

Version

win

2026.01.11

mac

2026.01.17

Accessibility

  • Use of label for Contents or Index tabs in Frameless output is resulting in WCAG validation failure. (Bug ID: 12569)
Application
  • Applying Dynamic Content Filters in Responsive HTML5 or Frameless output results in an incorrect TOC generation. (Bug ID: 12413)
Authoring
  • Copying text with drop-downs into a topic that already contains drop-downs with identical data-target deletes the content for each drop-down. (Bug ID: 12824)
  • Search does not return certain terms despite their presence in the database, and queries fail for random terms. (Bug ID: 12839)

Publishing

Frameless

  • In Frameless output, the search function doesn't work as expected. (Bug ID: 10940)
  • When the Right panel option is disabled in the Topic page for the Frameless preset, the last two TOC sections in the output become non-clickable and do not expand. (Bug ID: 12315)
  • Opening a mini-TOC link in a new tab or copying its generated URL results in a 404 error. (Bug ID: 12830)
  • Exact search using quotes does not work in Frameless output, when the output is not set to English language. (Bug ID: 12564)
  • The breadcrumb seperator in the Layout editor is not working as expected. (Bug ID: 12226)
  • In Frameless output, search result highlights do not preserve capitalization for one-word terms and inconsistently capitalize two-word terms. (Bug ID: 12791)
  • Search fails due to incorrect data in the whxdata folder. (Bug ID: 12298)
  • In Frameless output, the Skip to Main Content feature is not working on Linux and IIS servers. (Bug ID: 12909)
  • Searched keywords within quotes are not found. (Bug ID: 12826)

HTML5 output

  • In Responsive HTML5 output, performing a search occasionally causes the browser to become unresponsive, requiring the page to be closed. (Bug ID: 10017)

PDF

  • Referenced topics are missing from the generated PDF output. (Bug ID: 12834)
Note

For any fixed issues related to RoboHelp (2022 release), please visit Fixed Issues in RoboHelp 2022 release .

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