Search function in DW to flag stray /div tags?

This seems like a very basic question, but searching the site, the discussion threads, and the FAQs didn't produce any answers. Does Dreamweaver have a search function -- or an alternative Validate function for CSS -- to pick up stray </div> tags? I've got a page with one </div> too many or too few, doubtless due to a slight selection oversight on a copy/paste I made from another source. The page is rendering with elements flopping into the wrong places, or disapperaing entirely, so I'm sure it's an odd </div> somewhere; but I'm just not up to eyeballing 500 lines of code right now, trying to figure out where there's an imbalance in <div> and </div> pairs. It seems like a natural job for automation. Thanks.

Use the W3C Validation tools.
HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
I find it helps to insert HTML comments around Divisions.

<div id="DivName>

</div>
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
http://twitter.com/altweb

Similar Messages

HTML or PHP visibility div tag problem in IE

Hi,
I have a PHP search function on a travel site a programmer
did for me. When you look at it in FF and Safari, it looks fine.
But in IE, there is a big blank space where the calendar function
goes. He has the div tag set to visibility:hidden. Any ideas how to
make it look right in IE as well?? Any help would be appreciated!
The PHP code is below:
He thinks the problem is here in this part of the code:
<div id="kalendar" style="visibility:hidden; width:0px;
height:0px; border:0;">
//then goes some tables
</div>
Any help would be much appreciated...we are stumped!
Thanks

>
http://www.bluehippotravel.com/surfingvacations
404 on that link.
> Does this tell you anything?
Unfortunately, yes. The person who coded this has no sense of
best practice
in HTML authoring....
I'd like to see the page in the wild if I could - can you
investigate the
404, please?
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
http://www.projectseven.com/go
- DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs,
Tutorials & Resources
==================
"Lvanhoff" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Murray,
> As always you are a genius :-)
>
> The only problem I still have, and only in IE, not FF,
is that the drop
> down
> menus are cutting part of themselves off...any idea why?
>
http://www.bluehippotravel.com/surfingvacations
> Top left...see how the arrows are cut off on the drop
downs?
>
> Not sure if its ok to post to page??
>
> I didn't do this part of the page...so not sure how it
was done...
> Does this tell you anything?
>
> <table bgcolor="#f7ebb3" class="search"
style="table-layout: fixed;
> padding:0px" border="0">
> <tr><td colspan="4" width="auto">
> <select size="1" class="search" id="country"
> onchange="javascript:listajzemlje(this.value)">
> <?php
> drzave();
> ?>
> </select>
> </td></tr>
> <tr><td colspan="4" width="auto">
> <div id="state1">
> <input type="hidden" id="state" value="" >
> <input type="hidden" id="city" value="" >
>
> </div></td></tr>
> <tr>
>
>
> <td colspan="4" width="auto">
> <input class="search" id="hotel" name="hotel" value="
Hotel name
> (optional)" />
>
>
>
> <tr><td colspan="4" style="cursor:pointer;"
onClick="showKalendar()"
> class="search" >
>
> <img class="search"
src="images/btn-hotelmenu-searchbydate.jpg"
> alt="Search by
> date (optional) ">
> </td></tr>
> <tr><td colspan="4">
> <div id="kalendar" style="display:none; width:0px;
height:0px;
> border:0;layout:fixed">
>
> <table border="0" class="submenucolor" align="center"
width="auto">
>
> <tr>
> <td></td><td></td>
> <td class="HotelSearchMenu" colspan="2"
align="right">In:<?
> $aCalendarParams=array(
> "sIconPath" => "./img/calendar.png",
> "iAction" => 1, //0=>reloadCurrentPage with get
param sDate,
> 1=>fill
> field sFieldName
> "sFieldName" => "DPC_date1",
> "iStyle" => 1, //0=>display calendar,
1=>display div on icon
> click
> "aMonthNames" => $aMonthNames["EN"],
> "aDaysNames" => $aDaysNames["EN"],
> "sDateFormat" => $sDateFormat["EN"]
>
> );
> new oCalendarPicker("calFixe1",$sDate,$aCalendarParams);
> ?></td>
>
>
>
>
>
> </tr>
>
>
> Thanks!
>

Hidden and visible div tags, transparence and links - HELP....

I am showing different products in div tags that are controlled by simple javascript. I would like to add text links to open a new div tag about the related products, but also hide the original div tag that the link is placed on.
Please check this page out
http://www.aestheticgroup.fr/New/Inex/Inex_lipoAspirationR.html
and then click on the image for
CANULES D’ASPIRATION PROXIMALE
and then click on the text link:
manche BD 300 10
You will understand my problem. I'm trying to make this div tag (Canule d’aspiration Proximale) disappear instead of having them stack one on top of the other.
Do you have an idea of how I can add multiple functions to one click (close the div tag and open a new one at the same time)?
Thank you for your help!
Sooooophie

Hi Sophie,
I downloaded your site and yes, there was a typo in the script...
The script should read...
var curOverlay = null;
function overlay( aOly) {
var el = document.getElementById(aOly);
if (curOverlay) curOverlay.style.visibility = "hidden";     // THIS LINE HAS CHANGED
if (curOverlay != el) {
    el.style.visibility = "visible";
    curOverlay = el;
else
    curOverlay = null;
I also realize that wherever you call an overlayXX function that you are currently using, you'll need to replace it with a call to overlay('overlayXX')
I needed to add this to your onclick attribute for the close button... I tested this and it seems to work for the existing page.
here are the snippets from your page that I changed
      <div id="Groups02"><a href='#' onclick='overlay("overlay02")' onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image21','','images/LipoReutilisable02B.jpg',1)"><img src="images/LipoReutilisable02.jpg" name="Image21" width="170" height="120" border="0" id="Image21" /></a>
        <p>CANULES D’ASPIRATION <br />
        UN ORIFICE</p>
      </div>
and for the close button:
   <div id="close02"><a href='#' onclick='overlay("overlay02")' onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image43','','images/close.jpg',1)"><img src="images/close02.jpg" name="Image43" width="72" height="20" border="0" id="Image43" /></a></div>
You'll need to change this wherever you reference each overlay, in this case, it was for overlay02. The good news is you'll only need this function and not one function per overlay as you have now.
As I said in the previous post, I am off on vacation for a little over a week.
Good Luck!

In OS Yosemite the search function in Mail, Finder, Spotlight- does not work

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
2,6 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
OS Yosemite,
Finder versión 10.10.1
Mail Versión 8.1 (1993)
In OS Yosemite the search function in Mail, Finder, Spotlight… does not work. Messages or documents with the search criteria are there and one could find them manually, but the search function fails to find them. Following advice from Apple Support (728965377):
1. I applied an Apple protocol for adware removal (Remove unwanted adware that displays pop-up ads and graphics on your Mac); I had none, because I had formally utilized a similar protocol that I had found in Internet, actually an app that implemented automatically Apple's adware removal protocol.
2. I rebuild the post boxes in Mail (Mail (Yosemite): Reconstruir buzones); It took a while but it functioned properly
3. I re-install the System (OS X Yosemite: Reinstalar OS X); It took about 4 hours but there was no problem whatsoever with the installation.
Afterwards I searched for messages in Mail, and documents in Finder and Spotlight, without any difficulty. The search function in all of them was working properly. But the next time that I needed to search messages or documents, an hour later or so, the problem reappear and a couple of new issues occurred:
1. in app RagTime 6.5.2 (Build 1821), www.ragtime.de, the menu bar disappears (it is invisible), when one performs certain operations, e. g., calculating a value with a formula, whether it is in a spreadsheet or some other component (text, drawing, etc.). After touching with the cursor the menu bar is visible again.
2. after reading an e-mail in Mail or copying an address, this is seeing as a floating object in the finder and over every application. There is no logical way to get rid of the floating object and neither copying or deleting or cutting it. It is not a big issue but nonetheless bothersome.
3. In Mail, messages with Flag or in VIP contacts cannot be seen in the appropriate folders, only in the Incoming mail folder, together with other messages. It seems to me, this issue is part of same search function problem.
4. The preview function within Mail does not show the attached documents to a message, whether it is in the IN, OUT or Draft boxes.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try again to re-index Spotlight. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name or email address, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Lion mail 5.2 search function

I just switched to Lion and have been disappointed with the Mail app. I'm over 50 and find the new "grayed-out" icons throughout Lion's new graphic scheme really annoying... and Mail is no exception. Ditto the bouncing of lists, texts, etc., at the end of their scrolling range. What purpose is served by this? Why can't they just stop?
Anyway, the main issue I have with Mail is the search function, which seems nearly useless. I can't seem to find a way to search on Subject, Contents or Sender, all of which functions have been vital to my business. I'm not sure what to do about this, because I'm stuck with Lion now and can't go back to Snow.
Can anyone help?

Doesn't work for me. The drop down I get is only the following:
"All/Inbox/Drafts/Sent/Notes/Flagged
trying to search in each of those fields does not bring up the old "Entire Message/Subject/To/From/ etc...fields.
I'm using Lion and it seems that this came on all of the sudden when trying to search in Mail shows NO search box choices. NO Subject / No Entire Message / No From / No To Etc.....
I have multiple machines all running Snow Leopard and only this one machine running Lion but I do not think that Lion was always this way since I updated this machine. I could be wrong. Is this the Lion and Mountain Lion Mail app and I just have not used the Mail Search function on this machine until now?
Anybody know if this is Apple's idea of "slimming down" the existing apps to be more iOS like or is this a malfunction of the most recent security/java update? Either way I hate it and can't find anything without those options. I ordered a T-Shirt it came in the wrong size. Before I could always type in T-Shirt under "Entire Message" and find the right one almost immediately. Now when I try I get the whole inbox it seems. No filtering at all.
Issue? or "New and Improved" from Apple?
I hope this is not the normal behavior for Lion, I already not pleased at the "New and Improved" combination of Search and URL address in the new Safari......It's a joke. Talk about limiting our macs to be more like our phones, geezo before long we will have one search function to use and it will be so time consuming to go thru the results it won't be worth it. If I could remember enough detail to narrow down my results I would not be needing the search function. Of well, thats another feedback letter for Apple i guess.

CF search function

Trying to create a user defined search function and keep getting errors. I wanted a user to type in a search field and the query would return results that match and are also similar to their search criteria. here is the code:
here is the results page:
Can anyone spot whats wrong? I get an error that says something about a SQL syntax error and its point to line 19: "and glass is LIKE '#glass#%'
any help would be greatly appreciated.

now let me try to post my code again

<cfquery name="rsBulbs" datasource="rlBulbs">
SELECT item
FROM rlbBulbs
ORDER BY item ASC
</cfquery>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Member Search</title>
<link href="rlb.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<cfinclude template="header.cfm">
<div id="main">
    <div id="sidebar"><cfinclude template="sidebar.cfm"></div>
    <div id="content">
      <h2>Search for a Member</h2>
      <form action="results.cfm" method="post">
        <table width="500" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
          <tr>
            <td colspan="2" valign="top"><p>Please enter data in one or more of the
              fields below and <br />
              click the Search button.<br />
              </p></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Item Number:</th>
            <td><input type="text" name="item" size="50" /></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Base Type:</th>
            <td><input type="text" name="base" size="50" /></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Glass Type:</th>
            <td><input type="text" name="glass" size="50" /></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center" colspan="2"><input type="submit" value="Search" />
              <input type="reset" value="Reset" name="reset" />          </td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </form>
        </div>
</div>
<cfinclude template="footer.cfm">
</div>
</body>
</html>
results page:
<cfparam name="FORM.item" default="" type="String">
<cfparam name="FORM.base" default="" type="String">
<cfparam name="FORM.glass" default="" type="String">

<cfquery name="rsSearch" datasource="rlBulbs">
SELECT      id,
   item,
   base,
   glass,
FROM rlbbulbs
WHERE 0 = 0
<cfif item IS NOT "">
AND item LIKE '#item#%'
</cfif>
<cfif base IS NOT "">
AND base LIKE '#base#%'
</cfif>
<cfif glass IS NOT "">
AND glass LIKE '#glass#%'
</cfif>
ORDER BY item
</cfquery>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Members Search Results</title>
<link href="members.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<cfinclude template="header-members.cfm">
<h2>Search Results</h2>
<table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
    <th>Item</th>
    <th>Base</th>
    <th>Glass</th>
</tr>
<cfoutput query="rsSearch">
    <tr>
      <td><a href="details.cfm?id=#rsSearch.id#">#item#</a> </td>
      <td><a href="details.cfm?id=#rsSearch.id#">#base#</a> </td>
      <td><a href="details.cfm?id=#rsSearch.id#">#glass#</a> </td>
    </tr>
</cfoutput>
</table>
<cfinclude template="footer-members.cfm">
</body>
</html>

Epub publishing : The Search Function

Hi,
I m publishing a book and I was wondering if it was possible to exclude paragraphs, pages or even in the html code <p> or <div> from ibook search function ?
Best regards,

Hi Eliezer,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Sorry to disappoint you but search function is not available in the version 8.0.6 and 8.0.7.
Please see below thread.
Where is the search function in Microsoft Remote Desktop
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/92cad751-f9b0-4734-b251-45fd08435b57/where-is-the-search-function-in-microsoft-remote-desktop?forum=winRDc
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

IPhone 5s Voice memo to mp3. Now music on iPhone. Won't play from search function.

I record my band rehearsals using the voice memo on my iPhone 5s. Then I sync to iTunes and convert file to mp3. When i sync back to my iPhone it appears in my music. So far, so good. When I use the search function in music it finds the file but won't play from tapping. I must troll through all my music songs (currently 2227 of them) to find it and then play it. Is it something to do with it still being under the genre "voice memos" or what ? Anybody help please. Thanks

iWeb is an application to create webpages with.
It used to be part of the iLife suite of applications.
iWeb has no knowledge of the internal speaker on your iPhone.
You may want to ask in the right forum.

How do I use the new search function for ipod?

itunes 7.0 and ipod is up to date:
when i scroll through the music, i get the nifty little grey box with the letter in it, but how do i get to the search where i use the click wheel to input a query and search through all items in my ipod?

Unless your iPod is one of the recently announced upgraded 30GB or 80GB iPods, you don't have the search function. It was not added to existing devices in the recent update. It may or may not be added in some future software update but there's no official word on that.

Search function in Help not working in any application

The Search function is not working in any application's Help. Upon entering the terms I need help for I get a hang at "Searching..." but never any result. This problem started sometime in the last year or so. Prior to that the search function in Help worked fine. My network connectivity is excellent.
I recently reinstalled OS X 10.5 but I'm sure the problem existed before that and persisted after the reinstall.
The reinstall was due to upgrading to 10.7 and only then finding that I had lost needed functionality, but I don't think this has anything to do with the current problem. All other aspects of Help seem to be working fine
I don't find any reference to this problem anywhere so I'm hoping someone can help with my Help(!) problem. Thanks in advance.

Try running your Leopard install disk again, as well as the 10.5.8 combo updater. This might reinstall any 'missing bits'.
You can do this without deleting the hard drive, just install straight over your existing system, but close all applications and external devices first.
Or you could also do this via an Archive and Instal:
How to Archive & Install:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1710
and this also:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2196?viewlocale=en_US
This document explains how to correctly reinstall a prior version of Mac OS X in the event that other troubleshooting does not resolve an issue:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25404
BUT: Don't install older versions of Mac OS than what came with your computer:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186?viewlocale=en_US

RH9 Webhelp Search function is not working properly

Hi,
My organization is using RH9 for a Webhelp project. My company and our client are restricted to using IE9 for the online help I have created for this project, and our OS environment is Windows 7. When I generate using the Webhelp layout, with the TOC, Index and Search options chosen, my resulting browser window shows two frames. Left for the Contents/Index/Search and right for the content. In the left panel, there are three links at the top for Contents, Index and Search. When I click on the Search link, the only thing I see is the alphabet A-Z (which are links to filter items beginning with these letters (much like the index link) and a list of what I would say is garbage. For example, if I click on H, I see items like "half 1 2 3" or "held" or "honor # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8", etc. If I run my cursor down this list, I notice that maybe the word honor is a link. If clicked it brings up one of my topic pages. I can also click on the random numbers that appear, like clicking on 3 it brings up another topic page. The search function does not allow me to type in a search criteria, since there is no search field as well.
Do you have any suggestions for this issue? Is this a bug, or do I need to change settings somewhere within RH9? The same thing is happening when using this help project that is running on our clients server. Is there any suggestion you can give to try and make this work properly?

Rick, Thanks for stepping in. I assumed that was the reason why I was not receiving the search field, and that is fine for now. We have discussed with our client the possibility of having two different help projects one for each, but that decision was kind of put on the back burner.
However, the other issue I am having is still there and I don't quite understand why. Since I only have clickable A-Zs for the search, and it lists links much like the Index section, I'm still seeing lists of just numbers and characters (i.e., "# 1 2 3 4 5", or "%" or "& 1 2 3 4 5" sometimes all the way up to 18 or so). And each of these characters or numbers are clickable links as well to either page that doesn't contain that number or to nothing.
Doing a bit more research, I have noticed that a lot of these links are being picked up by the PDF file we have as part of the project. Our help project has a link to the documented version of the help in the form of a User Guide.pdf file. So the search is listing items from that guide like the heading numbers 1.0, 1.0.1, etc. Also each of these are clickable links that go nowhere. But then there is still the numbers 1, 2, etc that go to pages that don't have this anywhere on the page.
Do you have any insight as to why these types of things are being listed under Search at all? They make that selection look very messy and unorganized. Not professional at all. I have checked and tested the properties settings and can't seem to find what is causing this to happen. Any idea would be most appreciated!!

Crash on search function for HTML Help file (.chm) when connected to a Visual C++ application

Crash on search function for HTML Help file (.chm) when
connected to a Visual C++ application
I use the RH_ShowHelp API command to connect a HTML Help file
(.chm file generated by RoboHelp Word X 5) to my Visual C++
application. My application is able to call up this HTML help file
in context-sensitive mode and everything is working great in the
Contents and Index panels EXCEPT when I click on List Topics (after
I enter a KEYWORD for search) in the Search panel.
I got an error that said “Unhandled exception in
xxxx.exe.(HHCTRL.OCX):0xC00000FD: Stack overflow”
I am able to execute this .chm file by itself and the search
function works well in this case. I am using HHActiveX.dll that is
created on 2/23/04. Is this the correct version?? Any advice what
to do here??

Hi agschin and welcome to the RH forums. The hhactivex.dll
file is not used by the search function so you can rule that our.
Have you tried recompiling and seeing if the problem still happens?
You can also start the Bug Hunter feature in RH - View > Output
View and then select the Bug Hunter button - and see if that throws
up any clues.

When I 'Tab Groups,' the search function immediately pops up (and it won't go away) every time, preventing me from accessing my grouped tabs. How can I prevent this from happening?

Using Firefox 5.0 with Windows 7 on a laptop, whenever I click the 'Group Tabs' icon to the right of my tabs, the search function immediately comes up over my grouped tabs, preventing me from using any of them. When the search function comes up, the screen goes semi-dark and the search bar appears - any text I type at this time is entered into the search bar (the search function works normally). If I click any section of the screen at this time the search function disappears and the screen regains color - but only for a fraction of a second, and then the search function comes up again, along with the darkened screen. Hitting 'escape' or 'backspace' produces the same effect. Is there any way to disable this unceasing search function?

This is something you need to report via the Feedback button (or use the link on the Help menu).
Firefox 5.0 is still in BETA and not slated for release until June 21.
Reinstall the full version of the current release which is v4.0.1, download link at the top of this forum.

When an album has multiple artist how can you make them show up on an iPod Touch 4G? I can find an artist using the search function but they don't show up in the artist view on my iPod. iTunes shows them OK when you sort by artist.

Tech support seemed to understand the question but had no answer. Why would an album with only one artist show the artist but an album with multiple artist not show any of them. The album art show various in iTunes. That makes sense but on my iPod I would expect to see all artists.

Wish I did. I tried the group function but that didn't help in iTunes. The search function is the best I came up with. I can answer the question do you have susch and such artist. But I can't browse for an artist I don't remember exactly or have misspelled. Fortunately I don't think I've bought anything from iTunes that i already had. If you can't see an artist it's possible you think you don't have something you actually do have. Sorry, still hoping for a better work around or better yet a fix.

RoboHelp 8 vs. 9 - Search Functionality Comparison and "All of the Words" vs. "Any of the Words"

Greetings!
Our organization focuses a lot on the accuracy of our searches, which is a necessity when we have hundreds of very lengthy topics (no matter how well organized they are).
I finally completed a detailed comparison of the search functionality of 8 and 9 and came to the realization that 8 is a disaster, while with 9 things get better, but there's still TONS of room for improvement. I have reported this to Adobe and so far there has been no official response. There are many blogs on here related to the search functionality, but I thought it may be a good idea to try to sum some of them up. I do hope that someone somewhere at Adobe runs into this and shares with all of us why Adobe's Search functionality is still in the 20th century!
I hope this helps everyone else who is curious to know about how the tool's search functions work and whether it's worth upgrading from 8 to 9 at this point. I have included some examples which are in a way internal to us, but they will give you a good idea of what to expect and I'm quite confident you'll be able to recreate them on your side in seconds.
I also wanted to ask a question or two, and if anyone can assist, that would be greatly appreciated:
Currently if we search for several words at once (not exact phrase), both 8 and 9 perform an "Any of the words" search which always returns too many results. Does anyone know a way to change the default to an "All of the words" search? For years I have not encountered a tool out there that doesn't have the option to modify this, alas with RoboHelp 8 and 9, we can't find a way to do it (with or without modifying the source code).
Out of curiosity, are there any other tools out there which offer Conditional Tag (or similar) functionality and which behave better than RoboHelp? (easier to maintain, less buggy, web interface, etc)?
RoboHelp 8 vs 9 - Search Functionality Comparison Table with some Examples:
Search Example
RoboHelp 8
RoboHelp 9
Expected Results
(based on industry standards)
1. Searching for Exact Phrase "Correspondent Banking"
Such a search returns topics which contain "Correspondent Banking" and "Correspondent Bank". The last one is included because "Bank" is the root of "Banking". The topics that contain the exact phrase appear at the bottom. When we click on any of them, we're not automatically taken to phrase so we have to scroll and look for it or use CTR+F.
Identical behavior except that when we click on the topics which contain the exact phrase, we're taken straight to it.
When we hear "exact" we expect "exact" and nothing else. Unfortunately, both versions keep searching for the roots of each word as well and incorrectly display those results at the top. Adobe has made it clear that this is a part of their functionality, BUT this is something we would not expect to see for exact phrase searches that are in quotes.
2. A Non-Exact phrase search of "Geographical Limits of market area"
The tool automatically performs an "Any of the Words" search instead of an "All of the Words" search. This is also related to the question I asked above this table. As you can imagine, this is returning almost every topic and it becomes virtually impossible to find what we're looking for. It even returns topics which contain "of" and nothing else.
Identical behavior
There to be an option which allows us to choose what the default search would be - "Any of the words" vs. "All of the Words"
3. Exact Phrase search of "low-score" with a dash
None of the topics that were returned contain the phrase. As some of you know, RH8 has problems with special characters, including dashes.
RH9 returned only the topic that which contains the phrase and we were taken straight to it when we open it.
The expectation is to see exactly what RH9 currently offers. Unfortunately 8 has a big problem with these types of searches.
4. Exact Phrase search of "2.4"
This is similar to the one above. Adobe doesn't like periods as well. It doesn't not find any of the topics which contain this phrase. In our case, this is a section number and sometimes people want a quick way to get to a specific section or sub-section.
We were hoping that this will be fixed with 9, just the way they fixed the dashes. Unfortunately, still ZERO results returned.
Expectation is for the topics which contain that exact phrase to be returned, no matter whether there's any special character inbetween.
5. Exact Phrase search of "300,000" or $300,000"
The tool only returned several random topics which contain "000" as part of larger numbers. The topic that contains "300,000" was not on that list, even though it also contains "000".
Identical behavior
Expectation is for topics that contain the exact amount to be returned, no matter if there is a coma or a dollar sign anywhere within the phrase.
6. Exact Phrase Search of "525-B5". Goal was to have a special character, a letter and numbers.
ZERO Results returned.
Only the docs that contain the phrase were returned and nothing else. It seems that this this was addressed in version 9 and now it behaves as expected.
Expectation is only for the docs that contain the exact phrase to be returned.
7. Exact phase search of "log" in order to test the Substring Functionality
Here's an extract from Adobe's Support Site:
“Substring search (WebHelp/Pro, FlashHelp/Pro) - If you enable this feature, a search for "log" returns topics containing the words "catalog" and "logarithm." Substring search takes longer than whole-string search.”
So with that in mind, we decided to test if turning the substring searches on and off does exactly as advertised, unfortunately the answer was NO. We even used an example almost idnetical to what Adobe provided on their site.
With Substring Searches disabled, we searched for the word "log". Unfortunately it returned words like "logbook" and methodology". How is that possible?
Identical behavior
Our expectation would be only for docs that contain"log" to be returned, no matter whether substring is enabled or disabled. In our case it was disabled.

Hi there
Out of curiosity, why is it that you expect to hear from Adobe? I'm hoping it's not simply because you posted here. Certainly we have Adobe folks that visit here and we are thankful for that, but it isn't to be expected.
Cheers... Rick
Helpful and Handy Links
RoboHelp Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form
Begin learning RoboHelp HTML 7, 8 or 9 within the day!
Adobe Certified RoboHelp HTML Training
SorcerStone Blog
RoboHelp eBooks

Search function in DW to flag stray /div tags?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for