Mapping Styles???

ElaineB · Post by **ElaineB** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:39 am

Hi all,

I hope I can find some help here. I've browsed through a bunch of the topics but don't really understand what it is I need to do.

I'm trying to take a huge RoboHelp project into a Flare project.

Issue: They've used multi-level lists within RoboHelp (which are not technically a "list" per se) and have about 11,000 topics with these. The numbers, bullets, alpha letters for these lists do NOT show up in Flare. It just lists the paragraph instructions with no list whatsoever. This is a huge issue and certainly makes us rethink getting Flare instead of continuing to use RoboHelp.

I've seen a few topic responses where people advise to "create a Flare style and map it to the RH style" so that it will fix it. What does that mean??? Create a number list style in the default stylesheet.css and then, WHAT? How do I map this? Where do I map this? I have no idea what the responses are saying when they suggest this. But I do know we cannot manually update 11,000 procedure topics with numbers, letters, bullets - - that is ridiculous and based on how popular this "multi list style" in RH is, I'm sure this has to be a common problem. I've reached out to MadCap support and they are confused by the whole issue and don't seem to be helping.

PLEASE help???? I am familiar with Flare but have not done ANY kind of importing setup on a project before, so this is making me nuts.

Thanks,
Elaine

Msquared · Post by **Msquared** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:25 am

Can you post the XML content of one of the RoboHelp "multi lists" so we can see what you are up against?

ElaineB · Post by **ElaineB** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:43 am

Here is the way it is in RoboHelp, followed by how we would like it in Flare:

RH WRONG
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<html xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd" MadCap:id="Groups Overview" MadCap:timeEstimate="0" MadCap:priority="0" MadCap:fileTags="RoboHelpStatus.In Progress" MadCap:lastBlockDepth="3" MadCap:lastHeight="442" MadCap:lastWidth="1268">
<head><title>Modifying a Gift Limit</title>
<link rel="StyleSheet" href="../../../default.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>
<MadCap:keyword term="Gift Limits:Modifying" /><MadCap:variable name="System.Title" />
</h1>

<MadCap:keyword term="Gift" />
<MadCap:keyword term="Gift Limits" />Gift limits may be modified. How the change(s) impact existing gifts
depends on your workflow. If a rule to set the gift limit for a gift has
already executed, then it will not be updated. 
You must have module access to the Gift Limits
section of the Gifts and Hospitality Manger
module to access gift limit information.
 
Go to Legal & Compliance > Gifts and Hospitality
Manager > Maintenance > Gift Limits.
Find the desired gift limit in the Gift Limits List.
Click Actions > Edit.
Update the fields on the Gift Limit page. Refer to the <a href="Gift_Limits_Form_Field_Descriptions.htm">Gift Limits Page Description</a> topic to learn more about the meaning of the gift limit fields in the module. 
Click Save and Return.

CORRECT (How we WANT it to look)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<html xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd" MadCap:id="Groups Overview" MadCap:timeEstimate="0" MadCap:priority="0" MadCap:fileTags="RoboHelpStatus.In Progress" MadCap:lastBlockDepth="4" MadCap:lastHeight="621" MadCap:lastWidth="1255">
<head><title>Modifying a Gift Limit</title>
<link rel="StyleSheet" href="../../../default.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>
<MadCap:keyword term="Gift Limits:Modifying" /><MadCap:variable name="System.Title" />
</h1>

<MadCap:keyword term="Gift" />
<MadCap:keyword term="Gift Limits" />Gift limits may be modified. How the change(s) impact existing gifts
depends on your workflow. If a rule to set the gift limit for a gift has
already executed, then it will not be updated. 
You must have module access to the Gift Limits
section of the Gifts and Hospitality Manger
module to access gift limit information.
 
Go to Legal & Compliance > Gifts and Hospitality
Manager > Maintenance > Gift Limits.
Find the desired
gift limit in the Gift Limits List.
Click Actions > Edit.
Update the fields
on the Gift Limit page. Refer to the <a href="Gift_Limits_Form_Field_Descriptions.htm">Gift Limits Page Description</a> topic to learn
more about the meaning of the gift limit fields in the module.
Click Save and Return.
 
 
<ol>
<li class="Number">Go to Legal & Compliance > Gifts and Hospitality
Manager > Maintenance > Gift Limits.</li>
<li class="Number">Find the desired
gift limit in the Gift Limits List.</li>
<li class="Number">Click Actions > Edit.</li>
<li class="Number">Update the fields
on the Gift Limit page. Refer to the <a href="Gift_Limits_Form_Field_Descriptions.htm">Gift Limits Page Description</a> topic to learn
more about the meaning of the gift limit fields in the module.</li>
<li class="Number">Click Save and Return.</li>
</ol>

ChoccieMuffin · Post by **ChoccieMuffin** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 6:06 am

You could set up your stylesheet so that p.Style1 uses the autonumbering feature. I don't use that way of doing lists but I'm sure someone who does will be along soon to give you some tips. Hope that works as a starting point.

ElaineB · Post by **ElaineB** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 7:29 am

How do I do that? Set up pStyle1 to use an autonumbering feature?

The issue will be, pStyle1 is also used on some items that are not meant to be lists, but I would think cleaning up that portion would be easier than manually creating lists for 11,000 topics.

Elaine

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