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HI
I am new to Robohelp. I created a project. None of the title or file names contain the & character but some of the headings in the topics do. When compile the project and create the index the character before the & and the & are truncated. For example, in heading1 I have T&E Items..... and the index entry shows E Items.
I searched help and the boards but could not find anything. I did check the HTML view and it correctly shows T&E. I am using version 8
Any help is appreciated
Thanks
Kathy
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So if your index keyword is This & That, you only see That in the index?
Use the camera icon above and show us some screenshots. Seems to work OK here in a quick test so I need to see exactly where you are seeing this problem.
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thanks Peter
the index looks like this
and the topic h1 looks like this
thanks again
Kathy
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I created them using the Smart Index Wizard and kept all default selections in the wizard
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Try T & E rather than T&E.
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thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I get the same results
Any other ideas?
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Kathy
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Import one of the offending topics into a brand new project.
Same problem?
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same result
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Zip up that small project and send it to me via http://www.cutesendit.com.
You can get my address from my site. Please include a link to this thread.
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Oops. The answer was in your first post.
"None of the title or file names contain the & character but some of the headings in the topics do"
The index uses the topic title so no ampersand there and there will be no ampersand in the index.
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I changed the topic title to include the amersand and get the same results. My understanding is that the file name cannot have special characters like &
I set the settings in index wizard to use just the topic title and this is what I get
Heading1 and the Topic Title reads T & E Items
?????
Thanks
Kathy
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I'll take another look in the morning. It's late here in the UK.
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No problem. I will try some different things and post if I find anything significant
I really appreciate your help
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It is a bug in the Smart Index Wizard.
You can manually enter Index Keywords with an ampersand but and if your topic title is This & That and you use the Smart Index Wizard, it creates two keywords so This & That becomes
This
That
Two things.
- Personally I avoid the use of ampersands in anything like a topic title and topic heading and similar things in other applications precisely because of issues with special characters.
- You should report this as a bug. The wording highlighted blue above will be sufficient. Please follow this link.
http://www.Adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=38
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Thanks so much for your help Peter.
I am curious though as you said it worked for you???
The only way I could get it to work was to check the box that I wanted to verify each one and then add the new ones in teh wizard process. Is this the easiest way to manually add indexes
Thanks again
Kathy
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It works with manually entered entries, that is when you type a keyword in the box at the top of the index pod and click the + sign next to it. You are still trying to use the Smart Index Wizard and that is where the bug is.
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