Adobe 65030089 User Guide - Page 159

USING ROBOHELP HTML 9 153 Editing and formatting • From the Snippet pod, select a snippet and drag and drop it into the topic. • Select Insert > Snippet. Select a snippet from the list in the dialog box and click OK. Note: Right-click a snippet in the Resource Manager and select Add to Project to add the snippet to the project. Insert a snippet in a drop-down text editor 1 Open a topic. 2 Select some text to expand. 3 Select DHTML > Create Drop-down Hotspot And Text. 4 Drag a snippet from the Snippet pod and drop it in the Drop-down Text editor. Note: You can preview the topic and click the DHTML applied text. The snippet appears in the drop-down text. Applying conditional build tags to a snippet Use the Conditional Build Tags pod or right-click to apply conditional text on an entire snippet or a part of it. The preview option also lets you apply a conditional tag on selected text, code, or an image. You can exclude or include a conditional build tag from the output. Inserting variables in snippets Choose a variable from the User Defined Variables pod or right-click in a topic and choose Insert User Defined Variable. The snippet shows the variable value at the insertion point. Convert a snippet to text Convert an inserted snippet to embedded text. RoboHelp does not update the embedded text if the snippet is updated. 1 Click the snippet in the topic. 2 Right-click and select Convert To HTML Text. Delete a snippet 1 In the Snippets pod, select the snippet you want to delete and click Delete Selected Item. 2 Select one of the following options: Delete The Snippet And Its References Delete the snippet and its references across the topics, TOC, index, SSL, and templates. No warning is shown before the deletion. Note: Use the Snippets report to locate the variables you want to remove. Delete Only The Snippet Delete the contents of the snippet locally. For example, selecting a snippet in a TOC and deleting it with this option selected does not remove the contents of the snippet from the index. Delete Snippet And Replace References With Actual Content Delete the snippet and replace the references in the project with the contents. Last updated 12/14/2011