Conditional Build Tags + Image Map + Popup Doesn't Work

For RH build X.5.0.2, I have images in some topics and a
conditional build tag is applied to those images. The images have
image maps drawn on them and those image maps launch popup topics.
Everything worked fine until I added the conditional build tag
--even though I'm not applying the conditional build tag when I
compile. Now when I click an image map, on an image that has a
conditional build tag applied (though not compiled) nothing
happens.
Can anyone help?

Did you apply the conditional tag before, or after you
inserted the image maps? Are there different results for the two
approaches?
Harvey

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Conditional build tags apply themselves unwanted and unassigned.
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I have to repeatedly go back and forth to the dialog and keep selecting and deleting.
Some of the conditional build tags go clear, most don't.
I go into the topic directly in the wysiwyg view and manually try to select and delete them, and they delete only with difficulty.
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I have just about had it with this program.
This is only one of the many problems and bugs I have found and been trying to work around.
I suppose that the solution to my problem is to not use conditional build tags at all, but I am working with about five years' worth of legacy technical documents that have all been upgraded to RH9 and as I am looking at them to make the standard revisions, I am noticing this phenomenon of wrongly applied cbtags in other projects.
I would rate this as a bug of very high and critical importance.
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Sorry, I should have said see the Announcements.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp/robohelp_general_discussion
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At what point does the <div> start appearing around the image, as soon as the CBT expression is applied?
If yes, what is the expression?
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What is the difference between a topic level and a content
level conditional build tag? Why would you select one over the
other? How do you select one over the other.

First let me point out that the same conditional build tag
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sounds like you may be thinking that you have to create a tag as
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text and/or images that you want to apply the tag to,
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vice versa.
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quote:
Originally posted by:
Peter Grainge
It sounds like topics that belong to both versions, like the
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Until this project, I had two tags, when each topic belongs
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Okay, so you have a book named Privileges. It is linked to a
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I have this procedure in the WYSIWYG editor, and I want to mark the yellow icon (highlighted in yellow below) with the Online conditional build tag (green hash highlight):
So, I select that CBT, and so far everything looks fine in the WYSIWYG editor.
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Anjaneai Srivastava wrote:
I assume that you do not make any changes to any content or tag when you go to HTML view, Right?
Correct. I just switched from one view and then back. But even when I made changes in the HTML editor, it came back in WYSIWYG. The HTML for the entire topic is quite long, but here's the bit in question, at least after the workaround:
<li class="p-BodyText"><p class="BodyText">Access the <b>Auto Feature</b>
dialog box (<b>Insert | Feature | Auto<span style="font-weight: normal;">)</span></b>
<script language="VBScript" style="x-condition: Online;" type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[
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//]]></script><?rh-cbt_start condition="Online" ?><a
href="javascript://" onclick="MyRoadMap(MenuStr, 'no', event.screenX, event.screenY)"><?rh-cbt_start condition="Online" ?><img
src="../images/i_chiclet.gif" alt="Display Menu Roadmap" title="Display Menu Roadmap"
width="14" height="14" border="0" /><?rh-cbt_end ?></a><?rh-cbt_end ?><?rh-cbt_start condition="Online" ?>
<?rh-cbt_end ?>for either circle or cylinder auto features.</p></li>
<li class="p-BodyText"><p class="BodyText">With the dialog box open,
click the mouse, and drag a box around those feature types for which
you want to create auto features. Release the mouse button. PC-DMIS
will display the <span class="hcp4">CAD Select</span> dialog box,
showing the number of objects selected.</p></li>
<li class="p-BodyText"><p class="BodyText">Click <span class="hcp4">Create</span>.
Based on the objects selected PC-DMIS will generate multiple auto
features of the selected type.</p></li>
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<?rh-cbt_start condition="Online" ?><p class="BodyText"><a class="dropspot"
href="javascript:TextPopup(this)"
id="a21"><?rh-cbt_start condition="Online" ?><img
src="../i_blue.jpg" alt="See a brief demo on box selecting and creating multiple auto features"
title="See a brief demo on box selecting and creating multiple auto features"
style="border: none;" width="30" height="30" border="0" /><?rh-cbt_end ?></a><script
type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2">//<![CDATA[
Anjaneai Srivastava wrote:
Is this behaviour replicable one other topics of your project?
I certainly hope not. It's a very large project (2700+ topics) so finding the issue again while likely is going to be a bit of a pain. However, I will be testing it soon. If I find anything, I'll let you know.
Anjaneai Srivastava wrote:
One important question, is this the same project generated by decompiling the CHM file ?
No. This is my original English project and was converted from RH 7.

Conditional Build Tags and Baggage Files

Good afternoon
I have a project where I need to produce two outputs - one
for the internet and one for our intranet. I have applied
conditional build tags to the topics that I don't want displayed on
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show up - I can't figure out how to apply a cbt to these files. Can
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HI Leapy.
OK I think I have got to the reason why your CBTs are being
included. If you have them at the topic level, they are exlcuded.
If you have them at the topic contents level they are included. Do
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here
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