In the authoring window of your project, click the Quick Generate icon in the upper-right corner of the standard toolbar. Alternatively, select Quick Generate in the Output menu.
- RoboHelp User Guide
- Introduction
- Projects
- Collaborate with authors
- PDF Layout
- Editing and formatting
- Format your content
- Create and manage cross-references
- Create and manage links
- Single-source with snippets
- Work with images and multimedia
- Create and use variables for easy updates
- Work with Variable Sets
- Use Find and Replace
- Auto save your content
- Side-by-side editing in Split View
- Use the Spell Check feature
- Create and Edit Bookmarks
- Insert and update fields
- Switch between multiple views
- Autonumbering in CSS
- Import and linking
- TOCs, indexes, glossaries, and citations
- Conditional content
- Microcontent
- Review and Collaboration
- Translation
- Generating output
- Publish output
- Publish to a RoboHelp Server
- Publish to an FTP server, a Secure FTP server, or a File System
- Publish to SharePoint Online
- Publish to Zendesk Help Center
- Publish to Salesforce Knowledge Base
- Publish to ServiceNow Knowledge Base
- Publish to Zoho Knowledge Base
- Publish to Adobe Experience Manager
- Publish to Atlassian Confluence Knowledge Base
- Publish to a RoboHelp Server
- Appendix
Learn how to generate Responsive HTML5 output in RoboHelp so that your content adapts to devices of all sizes.
Master pages used in the PDF or Word output template have been renamed as Page Layout.
Master pages used for topic templates or for online outputs have been renamed as Topic Layouts.
For more information, see Templates in Adobe RoboHelp.
What is Responsive HTML5 output
Generating Responsive HTML5 output makes your project output consumable on devices of various screen sizes. This means that you can publish content that is optimized to fit screens of popular devices, such as iPad, iPhone, and more.
Responsive HTML5 output can be viewed both online and offline. You can publish the output on HTTP and HTTPS servers. For information about supported browsers, see RoboHelp system requirements.
Configure a Responsive HTML5 output preset
The first step in generating the output of a RoboHelp project is to create an output preset and then configure the various settings of the output preset. You can use the following settings to configure a Responsive HTML5 output preset:
General
Use the following options to specify basic output settings, such as title, output path, language of UI strings, and more:
Title Specify the title for the generated output.
You can use variables in the title. To do so, type Ctrl + 1 and select a variable from the drop-down list, and then press Enter. Note that if you have provided a variable set in the Content tab > Variable Set field, during output generation, the value of the selected variable is picked from the variable set.
The title, along with the variables if used, appears on the browser tab of the output.
Favicon Specify an icon to associate with the output. This icon appears on the browser tab of the output. Click to browse and select a desired icon.
Output Path Specify a location for the output. To select a location, click .
Ensure that the output path is NOT located inside the project folder. If the output path is inside the project folder, the output generation fails. Also the folder you select should NOT have any content that you need. RoboHelp deletes the contents of the folder before generating the output.
Save output path as relative to project: If enabled and you browse to the output path., the path to the output will now be a relative instead of absolute.
Start Page Specify the page name and extension (.htm or .html) that RoboHelp can use to generate the URL for the output. For example, specify index.html.
Language Use the drop-down list to specify a language for the output preset if the language of the UI of the generated output needs to be different from the language of the content specified in project settings.
Encoding Use the drop-down list to specify the type of character encoding format to be used for your content.
Use lowercase file names Select to generate all output files with lowercase filenames.
Post Generation Script To run your custom script after output generation, select the script .js file from the drop-down list.
Content
Use the following options to specify content-related output settings, such as the settings for Table of Contents, index, glossary, and condition expression:
Table Of Contents Use the drop-down list to select a Table of Contents to be included in the output. This drop-down list displays the Tables of Contents available in your project. The first Table of Contents in this drop-down list is selected by default.
The set of files and their references present in the selected Table of Contents appear in the generated output.
Browse Sequence Use the drop-down list to view the defined browse sequences in your project. You can select more than one browse sequence. The selected browse sequences are then merged for the output. If there is a conflict with the selected browse sequences, the first selection is given preference.
Default Topic Click to select the topic that displays in the Topic panel when you open the output. By default, the first topic in the Table of Contents selected for this output is the default topic.
You can also select the default topic from the merged child projects. The list shown under the merged child projects is read from the selected TOC.
Include Index Select this setting to include the index page in the output.
Glossary Use the drop-down list to select the glossary to be included in the output. The glossary helps your users to quickly retrieve the relevant terms in your project, with the corresponding definitions.
Condition Expression Use the drop-down list to specify the condition expression for your output. This setting allows you to easily include or exclude content depending on the desired type of output or userbase. Click to edit the selected condition expression. You can also select None in the drop-down list to not specify any condition expression.
Dynamic Content Filter Use the drop-down list to select a dynamic content filter so your end users can filter content in the generated output. Click to edit the selected Dynamic Content Filter. Alternatively, select None in the drop-down list to not specify a dynamic content filter.
Variable Set Use the drop-down list to specify the variable set to use in this output. In the drop-down list, you can select <Default Variable Set> to use the project's default variable set. Variable sets allow you to implement output-specific use of variables. For example, you can have different variable sets for generating output for customers and internal users.
Map Files Use the drop-down to select a map file to use context-sensitive help. For more help, see Work with context-sensitive help.
Layout
Use the following options to configure the appearance of your output:
Master Page Use the drop-down list to select the master page for the output you are generating.
Skin Use the drop-down list to select a skin to apply in your output.
Show Thumbnail for Images Select this field to show thumbnail for images in output.
- Create Thumbnail for images Select this field to generate image thumbnails from existing images in the output. These images can be enlarged when the user clicks them.
- Style Existing Images as Thumbnails Select this field to style existing images as thumbnails in the output. These images can be enlarged when the user clicks them.
Search
Use the following options to specify search-related settings for your output:
Search Context. You can specify the Search Context to customize the search topic results based on your requirements. The three available options for Search Context are:
- Text around the search term: Selecting this option displays the text around the first occurence of the search term.
- Topic description: Choose this option to display the topic description as the context. It displays the description that you add under General>Description in the topic properties.
- Starting text of the topic: Choose this option to display the opening content of the topic.
Set search context character limit. You can add a value here to set a limit to the number of characters that get displayed in the search topic results.
Enable a uto complete in search box. Select this option to display predictive options for the search query based on the initial characters typed by users.
Auto correct search query. Select this option to correct misspelled terms that are typed during search. This setting corrects up to one character in each word typed during search. This ensures that you receive relevant search results, even if you enter a misspelled term.
Show definitions from glossary. Select this option to display definitions of search terms from the glossary selected for this output. If the search term matches a glossary term, the definition of the term is displayed.
Generate XML sitemap. Select this setting to generate a sitemap for your published output. The sitemap.xml file in the published output contains the sitemap. You can then submit this file to your search engine to improve search results for your site. To submit the sitmap.xml file, follow the procedure described in your search engine’s documentation. In Base URL of the hosted content, enter the relative URL of the site. In Frequency of content change, specify a cadence for indexing the content.
Select file types to exclude from search. You can exclude specific types of files, such as PDF, Word, and Excel, from search. The content from the selected files will not be included during search.
After you've configured an output preset, you can access it in the Quick Generate dialog box of the authoring window or in the Output Presets panel of the publishing window.
Publish
You can publish your output to RoboHelp Server, SharePoint Online, FTP, SFTP, or File System. To be able to publish your output, first configure a publish profile for the appropriate server type. For more information, see the following sections:
- Configure a publish profile for RoboHelp Server
- Configure a publish profile for SharePoint Online
- Configure a publish profile for FTP, SFTP, or File System
After you save the publish profile, RoboHelp displays the profile in the Publish tab. To publish your output, select the appropriate publish profiles and click .
By default, only modified files are published using the chosen publish profiles since the last publish.
To publish all files, select Republish All and click . To view the publish log, in the Output Presets panel, against the appropriate output preset, choose > View Publish Log.
Generate Responsive HTML5 output
-
-
Select a Responsive HTML5 output preset in the Quick Generate dialog box.
-
To configure the settings, do one of the following:
- Click the Edit Settings icon in the Quick Generate dialog box.
- Click the Output tab at the left side of the Standard toolbar.
The Output view opens.
-
In the Output toolbar, click Output Presets. In the Output Presets panel, do one of the following:
- Double-click the desired Responsive HTML5 output preset.
- Click the icon next to the desired output preset and select Edit.
-
See Configure a Responsive HTML5 output preset to configure the output settings.
-
To save your settings, click the Save icon in the upper-left corner of the standard toolbar in the Output view.
-
Click the Generate Preset icon in the Output Presets panel.
You can then view a progress bar next to the selected output preset in the Output Presets panel. Once the output generation is complete, a Success dialog box is visible at the lower-right corner of the screen.
After the output generation is complete, click in the Output Presets panel to view the output. Alternatively, click the icon next to the desired output preset and select View Output option.
Note:Alternatively, you can generate the output in the authoring window. Click Quick Generate in the toolbar, select the desired output preset, and click Generate.
You can then view a progress bar in the Quick Generate dialog box. After the output generation is complete, click next to the output preset to view the output. In case the output generation failed, click next to the selected output preset to view the error log.
-
To view the output in a selected browser, select View With and choose one of the browsers installed on your computer. The currently available browsers are listed in alphabetical order, for example, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox. You can preview your output with any of the browsers installed on your computer. This View With option is also available in topic Preview mode in authoring.
Users would also be able to download and install any new browser. Whenever any new browser is installed, it starts appearing in the browser listing.
"Content-Security-Policy": "default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'; script-src-elem 'self' http://platform.twitter.com; frame-src 'self' https://platform.twitter.com http://www.facebook.com; object-src 'self'; style-src 'self'; style-src-elem 'self' https://*.typekit.net; img-src 'self' data: https://*.twitter.com; font-src 'self' https://*.typekit.net; form-action 'self';"
Few things to keep in case of CSP violations. Use the following for a responsive template using social media buttons from the template settings:
- Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com needs to be added to frame-src. - Twitter:
- https://platform.twitter.com needs to be added to the frame-src directive.
- http://platform.twitter.com/ needs to be added to the script-src-elem directive.
- https://*twitter.com needs to be added to the image-src data directive.