I decided to try compiling our online help into CHM to see how it looks like. I chose the CHM transformation and it completed successfully: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 27 seconds The process finished with exit code: 0 Right after that, my browser opens and I see this message: File Not Found Firefox...

I just installed OxygenXML Author version 21 this morning and tried recompiling my WebHelp (which worked with no problems in version 20). After running into a host of more minor errors that I was able to figure out myself, I am stumped at this transformation error: Transformation failed. /home/clum/...

Hello. I am asking about text in the WebHelp output.

Hey Radu. I just discovered a side effect glitch: if my Related Topics links go to both Concepts and Tasks, I end up getting two "Related topics" sections! For example: Related topic: Concept Topic Related topic: Task Topic Is there any way to force it to put both under the same "Rela...

Is there an easy way to hide a block of text so that you can reveal/collapse it by clicking a link? This was easy to do in Flare, but I've gone in circles trying to find out how to do this in OxygenXML.

Thanks for the response. That is what I expected unfortunately.

Let's hope the issue gets corrected soon!

Here is something that has been annoying me for a while. To start off, I create normal parent & child topics, then: Scenario 1 If I do not specify a "chunk" setting, the resulting WebHelp shows the parent/children in the left nav TOC. If I search for a a child topic (using its topic ti...

Thanks for the info, Radu. I will remove all links from the <shortdesc> element to avoid those messages.

BTW, I don't get tooltips when I hover over the links in the TOC of my WebHelp.

That worked!

Thank you very much, Radu.

Hi Radu. I am using OxygenXML Author 20.1 build 2018122403. I don't believe that we are using an external DITA Open Toolkit (I inherited this project; how do I verify?). Does this link work for you? It's the actual link associated with the last message I sent in the old thread: https://www.oxygenxml...

Thanks Radu. But when I try adding the label "Related topics" using the <desc> tag, it doesn't work. In my WebHelp output, the <desc> string is ignored and now there's no "Related" title showing. Only the links to the related topics are shown. I'd like to try the CSS method, but ...

When I generate WebHelp, I see many errors like this: The file <filename> is not available to resolve link information. However, I have double-checked the cross reference and it is correct. I am able to click the hyperlink in the topic to trigger the destination file. When I compile my WebHelp, the ...

On a related note, I see that the relationship tables that were set up uses "Related information" as the header, and that's what shows up in our topics: "Related information". But when I manually add related topics, they usually come up as "Related concepts" (because mo...

Yes, you are right Radu--relationship tables are in effect! I didn't know about these. Thanks!

I have this perplexing problem that I've been wracking my brain over, but I can't figure it out. I have started adding related topics links to the end of my topics. I do this by selecting Link icon > Related link to topic . In authoring mode, it shows up as "Related information:" and the u...

Hey Radu. I discovered the answer shortly after I posted (how do you retract a post awaiting moderation? Is it even possible?)

Turns out you need a figure title for it to show. I added the Title element and it works fine now.

Hi Radu. I was trying to follow your instructions in this post to add a List of Figures to my PDF: https://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/post25300.html?hilit=list%20of%20figures#p25300 I opened my Book Map file and added "<figurelist/> to the <booklists> section as you directed: <frontmatter> <keydef...

I think I've figured it out. The "correct" product name strings are inserted when "Root map = <current map>". The "incorrect" strings are inserted when I set root map to another ditamap. I inherited this project where the previous writer created an "overall" d...

This is a tricky one to explain, but I'll do my best. In my project, we have resource files that contain reusable components for things like our company name, product name, etc. Until now, this feature has been rock solid: when I insert the variable from the DITA Reusable Components window, it works...

Interesting. I just learned something new! But, if you watch my video clip again, that "Link with Editor" button is not active (unless I'm misinterpreting the depressed/not depressed buttons. You really do need better icons!). The point may be moot though--I just tried my test again, with ...

I've run into this very annoying UI "glitch" that sometimes occurs. Here are the steps to reproduce: Open several ditamaps in the DITA Maps Manager. In my test, I opened child (chapter) ditamaps from within my user manual. In one ditamap, open a topic for editing. Close the topic that you ...

Hi Radu. I tried your suggestion that you emailed me and it seems to have fixed the problem! Setting fix.external.refs.com.oxygenxml to 'true' worked.

Thanks.
Carl

Hi Radu. I'm just going through my old posts and I realized that I never tried your suggestion above. I just did my own workaround of importing the topic I want into a separate small temporary project. Anyhow, I've tried inserting a topicref to the key definitions map as you suggested, but my reuse ...

I just discovered something very puzzling. In our doc set, the previous writers used the "uicontrol" tag to render not just UI controls, but then they started using it as a replacement for the "<b>" tag to bold text. I think it's poor form to do this, but it seemed to work. Now I...

Thanks, Radu. But when I go to that page and try to edit the document type for my colors, the "Document type" field is uneditable. How do I change "DITA" to "DITA*"?

(And there really should be an easier way to make the colors apply to both dita and ditamap topics.)

I have "Show Profiling Colors and Styles" turned on all the time. When I an editing an individual topic, these colors display as expected. However when I use the "Open Map in Editor with resolved topics" button, the topics do not show the profiling colors, even though I've confir...

Hi Radu. I'm not sure, I thought I was using the "stock" PDF engine in Oxygen, but there may have been some customizations installed by the previous writer. I'm new to Oxygen and to DITA. How do I check and what should I look for? For what it's worth, I also created a small project with a ...

Okay, I've randomized my project and emailed it to support@oxygenxml.com. What a nifty feature!

Please let me know what you find.

Thank you.
Carl

I am using OxygenXML Author 20.1, build 2018080903. I am certain that I'm using the bundled publishing engine.

Unfortunately, I could not replicate this error by creating a small sample project.

When I do a PDF transform, I get errors like the following: Unable to retrieve linktext from target: '<file_name>.dita'. Using navigation title as fallback. There are also variants that don't have the "Using navigation title as fallback." sentence. I also get errors like this: The file ../...