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Hello RH friends,
I need to search through my 2200+ topic project, find any topics that use a certain image in the source and then open up that file in the wysiwyg editor to visually see what's happening to the conditional markings on those topics. I need to open them in chunks since I've determined there are some 600+ topics that has the image I'm looking for. Seems like something a script would be able to handle. Does anyone have a script that does something like this or something similar?
Anyway, I started messing around in the script editor with a test script to figure some of this out, but I get an error right off the bat when I try using the standard js prompt method to capture a text
string. I have these two lines of code in my script:
var strText = prompt ("Type a string to search for. Topics with that string will then open in the RH viewer.","i_chiclet.gif","String to Find");
alert (strText);
Running it directly from within the script editor, the prompt command works fine.
However, running the script from within RH--which is what I need to do for it to work on the current project to look at, I get a message that says:
"prompt is not a function."
What am I missing?
I'm using RH 9.02.271
Windows 7 64-Bit with adminstrator access
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RH ExtendScript bug... Use Window.prompt() and it'll work. The same goes for confirm: Window.confirm() does work. Alert() does work however and prompt and confirm work in ExtendScript toolkit itself.
I've never tried opening a topic in the WYSIWYG and I don't think that RoboHelp supports this. You can open a file with ExtendScript, but that just launches the file in default viewer (probably your web browser). I'll look into opening a topic in the WYSIWYG, but I can't promise anything.
Greet,
Willam
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Thanks for the response Willam. I hope there's a way to do this, otherwise I'll have to manually open up all 600+ files in the viewer --- and that'd be a painful loss of time.
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Well I found a workaround using a combination of Notepad++ to get a list of filenames with the image in it and then Macro Express to open the topic in RH. Kind of klunky, but it at least does what I need it to do. Very handy tools.