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What's new in RoboHelp (2022 release) Update 3

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  1. RoboHelp User Guide
  2. Introduction
    1. Get to know RoboHelp workspace
    2. What's new in RoboHelp 2022 release
      1. What's new in Update 5
      2. What's new in Update 4
      3. What's new in Update 3
      4. What's new in Update 2
      5. What's new in Update 1
    3. Fixed Issues in RoboHelp
    4. RoboHelp System Requirements
    5. Download RoboHelp on Windows and macOS
    6. Download and install Adobe app
    7. RoboHelp FAQs
    8. What's new in RoboHelp 2020 release
      1. What's new in Update 8
      2. What's new in Update 7
      3. What's new in Update 6
      4. What's new in Update 5
      5. What's new in Update 4
      6. What's new in Update 3
      7. What's new in Update 2
      8. What's new in Update 1
  3. 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
  4. Collaborate with authors
    1. Collaborate using Git
    2. Collaborate using SharePoint Online
    3. Collaborate using Azure DevOps (Team Foundation Server)
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Import and linking
    1. Import Markdown files into a project
    2. Import Word documents into a project
    3. Import FrameMaker documents into a project
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Microcontent
    1. Microcontent
  11. Review and Collaboration
    1. Review and Collaboration
  12. Translation
    1. Translating content to multiple languages
    2. Configure a translation framework for a service provider
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. Appendix
    1. Adobe RoboHelp Scripting Reference
    2. RoboHelp keyboard shortcuts

RoboHelp (2022 release) Update 3 contains various new features such as Citation Management, Snippets Categorization, publishing output to Atlassian Confluence, and various enhancements for CSS editor, PDF, FTP, or SFTP publishing. 

In this document,

Install the update

Ensure that you've an active Internet connection.

To install Update 3 of the 2022 release of RoboHelp, select Help > Check for Updates.

Then follow the instructions.

Alert:

The above-mentioned update process isn't applicable for users on Update 1 of RoboHelp (2022 release). If you're using Update 1, you must manually download and install Update 3 from here: Windows and macOS.  

For more information, view this community post.

What's new and changed

Citation Management

With RoboHelp Update 3, you can add citations to your project. Citations are used as an acknowledgment of the sources that were referred to in your content. Add citations to your content in multiple styles like Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), Chicago, Institute of Electricals and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and American Heart Association (AHA). You can also add a bibliography or references page at the end of PDF output.

For more information on adding and applying citations, view Create and manage citations. 

Add citation

Snippet Categorization

With the latest update of RoboHelp, you can organize your snippets within categories. You can save your snippets in meaningful categories to search and use them quickly.

For more information about how to add a snippet category, view Single-source with snippets.

Add snippet category

Publish output to Atlassian Confluence

Adobe RoboHelp now allows you to publish Knowledge Base output directly to Atlassian Confluence. Confluence is a team workspace to create, collaborate and organize all the work in one place.

For more information on setting up the publish profile and preset, view Publish to Confluence Knowledge Base.

Confluence output settings

Redesign of CSS editor

In this update, the CSS editor is redesigned for a better user experience with the introduction of new selectors and style properties.

For more information on adding styles in the CSS editor, view Apply Styles.

Enhancement In Add style dialog box

Selectors are used to merge multiple styles together to form one methodical style form for the content. You can now add selectors to create a new style. 

add new style

Management of custom PROPERTIES OF STYLEs

RoboHelp Update 3 introduces you to a new properties table under the Preview section for styles. You can edit the custom properties of style more efficiently and quickly from the properties table. 

property panel to edit style

Customizing PDF output

With this update, you can customize the PDF output with chapter page break and front matter and back matter options for page layouts.

Chapter page break in PDF

Now you can also start a chapter from the current page. If you choose to do so, all chapters are published in continuation without any page breaks. For example, if a chapter ends in the middle of page 15, the next chapter starts from the 15th page itself.

For more details on chapters, view Advanced PDF settings.

settings for Chapter break from any page

Page Layouts for front matter and back matter in PDF

With RoboHelp Update 3, style the front and back matter pages of your PDF. Design the front matter layout and use them as fallback layout for  TOC, List of Figures, and List of Tables. Similarly, design the back matter layout and use them as fallback layout for Index, Glossary, and Citations pages.

For more details on front matter and back matter, view Advanced PDF settings.

Front and back matter settings in templates

Bugs fixed in this release

To check the list of bugs that have been fixed in this release, view Fixed issues.

Have a question or an idea?

If you've a question to ask or an idea to share, come and participate in the Adobe RoboHelp Community. We would love to hear from you and address your queries.

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