Hi,
I am hoping someone can help me out...I am working on a help manual and want to bury some text so that only employees of our company can see it. Can anyone help me figure out how to make this happen? In other words, I want some text to be hidden from general users.
Thanks in advance,
Heather
P.S. I am building a CHM.
Using conditional text
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RamonS
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Re: Using conditional text
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The best way to learn about conditional text is probably in the help file: User Interface Elements - How to Use Each One > Creating Condition Tags
Basically, you first create a condition tag, then use that tag to tag the text you want to exclude from output, then you create two CHM targets where one explicitly excludes that tag. Depending on which target you build you get output with or without the text. Make sure that you name the output files accordingly so that they do not get mixed up.
And that's about it in a nut shell.
The best way to learn about conditional text is probably in the help file: User Interface Elements - How to Use Each One > Creating Condition Tags
Basically, you first create a condition tag, then use that tag to tag the text you want to exclude from output, then you create two CHM targets where one explicitly excludes that tag. Depending on which target you build you get output with or without the text. Make sure that you name the output files accordingly so that they do not get mixed up.
And that's about it in a nut shell.
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Re: Using conditional text
Hi Heather,
There is no "user based" model for hiding items in a help file. As far as I know, CHM/WebHelp do NOT support a login system that will allow only certain users to see certain information.
Instead, as the previous poster stated, you will need to mark topics (or paragraphs within topics) with a conditional tag. Then you will create a separate target CHM that includes (or excludes) items with conditional tags. You can then put the "public" copy safely online and the "employees" copy inside your local network.
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There is no "user based" model for hiding items in a help file. As far as I know, CHM/WebHelp do NOT support a login system that will allow only certain users to see certain information.
Instead, as the previous poster stated, you will need to mark topics (or paragraphs within topics) with a conditional tag. Then you will create a separate target CHM that includes (or excludes) items with conditional tags. You can then put the "public" copy safely online and the "employees" copy inside your local network.
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