This is happening to me with converting an RH6 project to the
licensed version of RH7 -- aside from some garbage issues (e.g.,
HTML inserted in the text in place of initial quotes, hyphens, and
so forth) -- I thought it went almost smoothly. I just discovered,
however, in one large WebHelp project that four major topics were
blank on output.
In Robohelp Design view, each is also blank and in HTML view
there are some meta tags and empty opening and closing html, body,
head, and style tags. Looking at the HTML files with an external
editor, they are similarly truncated.
If I import those four files from a pre-upgraded backup, I
get exactly the same Design/HTML view from within RoboHelp, but
looking at those files with an external editor they are complete,
right down to the original kadov tags. And, they display when
compiled...I just can't edit them in RoboHelp (because they don't
show).
I took a pre-conversion backup and converted it again to 7:
same four files came up blank. Three of the four files have DHTML
drop-downs with tables, all four have DHTML drop-downs. Yes, I ran
the Update DHTML Effects in Topics... I also deleted the CPD file
and let the project rebuild...no difference.
So, in sum: RH7 cleared the content of four topics during the
conversion process. If pre-RH7 versions of these files are
subsequently imported, they can't be viewed in RH7, but are output
when the project is generated, and they retain their kadov tags.
...any ideas?