Starting New Topics

The whole point of this forum is sharing issues and receiving help. So why don't I have a "post new discussion" button on any of the support forums? That leaves me only the option of hijacking an existing thread trying to get help. The online support service doesn't work and Apple doesn't allow ordinary customers to contact them after a few months (when most problems will happen).
Is the lack of a posting button inherent in all users or have I somehow incurred the wrath of Steve Jobs :)?
Message was edited by: Clumpy

Hi Clumpy!
If you have a question, or suggestion, about using Discussions, from this page Feedback about Discussions, click on Post New Topic.
If you have a Technical question about Apple Hardware, Programs, Services, Technology, Software, Applications, Products, etc, from this page Discussions - Forum Home, select an appropriate Category from one of the sixteen divisions.
For example, under Mac OS X Related Software, choose the Category Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger.
On the page that opens, select a Forum, such as Installation & Setup, or Using Mac OS X Tiger.
Most Category pages, have numerous Forums within them.
But some may have only one, two, or three.
For example the Safari Category page has four choices listed under Forum / Category, but only two of them, are Forums:
Safari For Windows
Safari for Mac Support forum.
And the Apple Remote Desktop Category, has only one Apple Remote Desktop Forum.
On Forum pages, there is an option to Post New Topic.
Click here for all iPod Forums.
Click here for all iTunes Forums.
Click here for all iPhone Forums.
More info here How Is Discussions Content Organized.
It can be confusing, but explore the different areas, and you will acquire a better understanding of the hierarchy.
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[ ] *3. C1E [DISABLED]
[ ] (2) >CHIP Feature
[ ] 1. HPET [DISABLED]
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[ ] D. >>Cell Menu
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/edit
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_______________________________________ _________ED. 02_070329_1718pdt_
And on and on and...
Sorry about the formatting, I typed this in Notepad, Lucida Console (monospace), and pasted it in to the editor. Something I don't know evidently. Hope you find this handy regardless. If you see an error let me know, I haven't made a mistake so far this year, so I know I'm due.
One of you mods can delete the whole thing if you like. I don't mean to step on any toes or threads!
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jeez! How ugly!
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1) Create Menu
2) Import timeline
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4) Link button to timeline
5) Preview from here
6) Menu opens with button(s)
7) Click any button
8) First frame of clip displays, sits there for a few seconds
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Is there something obvious (except to me) that I am NOT doing???
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Glenn

Glenn,
Obviously your boolean skills are better than mine, as I was drawing blanks on all of my searches.
OK, lets break your Asset apart and see if we can eliminate any Audio problems. Back in your NLE, Export your Video (only) as a DV-AVI (remember, uncheck Audio, as we want
b ONLY
Video). We want nothing but an elemental Video stream. You also do not need to Export the full NLE Timeline for this test. If you're using Premiere, you can move the WAB (Work Area Bar) to the head of your Timeline and drag its right point to, say 3 mins. That should give us enough to work with.
Import that as a Timeline into Encore2 and link your Button to that Timeline. Does this Preview correctly?
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If you have a link to the previous post with a similar problem, please add that, as I'd like to refresh my memory of what was suggested and tried.
Thanks,
Hunt
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TOC entry without new topic

I have a multi-chapter project in FrameMaker 12 that I've linked in RH11. I use RH to auto-generate the TOC. The first page of each topic has the first two headings from each FM chapter, with the remaining headings starting each remaining topic. I've done this by creating and mapping two paragraph styles in FM. H0, H1, and H1A. I use FM to auto number them like this:
100 H0 Chapter title
101 H1A Topic 1
102 H1 Topic 2
103 H1 Topic 3
In RH Project Settings / FM conversion settings, I set H1 to start a new topic, which creates a corresponding TOC entry. I've set H1A to not start a new topic because my client wants it on the same page as the first topic. However this of course doesn't create a TOC entry. This makes it look like the H1A entry is missing from the document.
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I already had the TOC in FM, along with the index and glossary. I'm transitioning my client to publish online, but they want to keep the PDF publish option. When I brought the FM content to RH and started styling the Responsive HTML5, I wanted to keep the first two H1 sections on the first page of each topic and have the remaining FM heading start new topics. So I created the H1A format in FM and used that for the 2nd heading in FM. Then in the RH conversion settings I set H1 to start a new topic, but not H1A. But the H1A was excluded from the imported and published TOC. I mistakenly assumed that was because I didn't have it set to a new topic also. Once I read the responses here I backed up and realized that it was actually because I didn't add H1A to the FM TOC after I created that para format in FM. Stupid mistake.

The "Roman" font is not being recognized in Firefox 4.0. As such, I cannot read any previously posted topics or post any new topics on websites using this font.

The "Roman" font is not being recognized in Firefox 4.0. As such, I cannot read any previously posted topics or post any new topics on websites using this font.

I have had a similar problem with my system. I just recently (within a week of this post) built a brand new desktop. I installed Windows 7 64-bit Home and had a clean install, no problems. Using IE downloaded an anti-virus program, and then, because it was the latest version, downloaded and installed Firefox 4.0. As I began to search the internet for other programs to install after about maybe 10-15 minutes my computer crashes. Blank screen (yet monitor was still receiving a signal from computer) and completely frozen (couldn't even change the caps and num lock on keyboard). I thought I perhaps forgot to reboot after an update so I did a manual reboot and it started up fine.
When ever I got on the internet (still using firefox) it would crash after anywhere between 5-15 minutes. Since I've had good experience with FF in the past I thought it must be either the drivers or a hardware problem. So in-between crashes I updated all the drivers. Still had the same problem. Took the computer to a friend who knows more about computers than I do, made sure all the drivers were updated, same problem. We thought that it might be a hardware problem (bad video card, chipset, overheating issues, etc.), but after my friend played around with my computer for a day he found that when he didn't start FF at all it worked fine, even after watching a movie, or going through a playlist on Youtube.
At the time of this posting I'm going to try to uninstall FF 4.0 and download and install FF 3.6.16 which is currently on my laptop and works like a dream. Hopefully that will do the trick, because I love using FF and would hate to have to switch to another browser. Hopefully Mozilla will work out the kinks with FF 4 so I can continue to use it.
I apologize for the lengthy post. Any feedback would be appreciated, but is not necessary. I will try and post back after I try FF 3.16.6.

Errors on creating new Topic in RH9 (9.02 Patch)

Have found that when creating a new topic in RH9 project that on building the project errors 3018 and 3111 are being presented.
Appears that the error is being caused by the placement of the Page Break in the word document at the commencement of the topic. Prior versions of RH would insert a new topic as such :- (Note correct placement of Page Break and 'Keep with next' paragraph mark).
When adding a new topic now it appears as such :-
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On building then project with a topic in this format causes 2 additional error messages to be presented in error wizard :-
1. HC3018: Warning: In the project file, an #include statement is specified without a filename, and
2. HC3111: Warning: This topic contains keywords but no title
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I have found that the work around to fix this is to correct error HC3018 first by :-
Place Cursor at start of the topic line immediately prior to the # symbol.
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Yet another bug in this version now doubt.

Peter G,
Thanks. Tried that and no the problem does not present in a new project. Oddly enough this started occurring in a new project that had these documents imported from a previous project (word 2003 format into Word 2010 format).
So it doesn't occur by default in a new project, but does in an older project migrated from 2003 word format into 2010 format. Go figure.
David H.
Thanks to you for your suggestion. Worked fine. Not sure why all of a sudden I have to do this and why the same issue does not occur in new project by default, Maybe a word 2003 to word 2010 save / convert issue ?
Nonetheless your suggestion and fix works well and far less painful than my clumsy solution.
Once again, Thanks to both of you for your assistance

When posting, please post a new topic if you don't have an answer!

Occasionally you may be tempted to add your voice to a chorus of complaints. Unfortunately, if what you are here for is to get assistance for a problem which you can't find an answer for, trailing an existing thread with a second complaint, is usually considered bad form. It has been given the nickname of "threadjacking." Instead, when you don't have an answer, and are seeking an answer, start a new topic by clicking on the Discussions header links of the board below the big bold text "Apple Discussions" to locate the board most appropriate for your question. Once you have found the board appropriate for your question, above the posts on the upper left should be a "Post a New Topic" link. Use that link to create your own topic. If that link is not there, you have probably already entered another thread, and if that is the case, use the link Batch to Topic List link to return to where you can Post a New Topic.
Here are the advantages to not threadjacking:
1. You will get a much wider audience of possible experts to help you out.
2. The original poster of the thread will not get advice that does not pertain to their situation, and you won't get advice that doesn't pertain to your situation. You wouldn't want either you or the other person to get the wrong advice and try something which could make them get more in a hole.
3. The experienced users with this situation won't get confused who they are offering advice to and give the wrong advice to the wrong person.
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Until this information is provided, the community is unable to offer you proper help and you will very probably be asked for the information in the first reply.
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I would like to start a topic but...

I want to start a new topic but I want to use a photograph as a reference.
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Thanks in advance.

use http://www.pixentral.com/
 
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Starting new task question

Hi,
is there a way we can see the logs of task for all Function module that executed STARTING NEW TASK?
for UPDATE TASK we can see it through SM13. is this the same with STARTING NEW TASK?
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STARTING NEW TASK and UPDATE TASK are related to different topics.
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UPDATE TASK is used to make major changes to the database, see chapter "Update Techniques" in SAP NetWeaver help.
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RH7 crashes when creating a new topic

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Faulting application RoboHTML.exe, version 7.3.1.0, time stamp 0x496b5cd9, faulting module IMAGEAPI.dll, version 7.0.145.0, time stamp 0x46f5dc83, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00014c00, process id 0x14e4, application start time 0x01caa332e125ed58.
and the full log information is
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 01/02/2010 11:41:35
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: jbrowning-lapto.ie.com
Description:
Faulting application RoboHTML.exe, version 7.3.1.0, time stamp 0x496b5cd9, faulting module IMAGEAPI.dll, version 7.0.145.0, time stamp 0x46f5dc83, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00014c00, process id 0x14e4, application start time 0x01caa332e125ed58.
Event Xml:
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 <Provider Name="Application Error" />
 <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
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 <Task>100</Task>
 <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
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 <EventRecordID>3892</EventRecordID>
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 <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
 <Data>RoboHTML.exe</Data>
 <Data>7.3.1.0</Data>
 <Data>496b5cd9</Data>
 <Data>IMAGEAPI.dll</Data>
 <Data>7.0.145.0</Data>
 <Data>46f5dc83</Data>
 <Data>c0000005</Data>
 <Data>00014c00</Data>
 <Data>14e4</Data>
 <Data>01caa332e125ed58</Data>
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</Event>

Hi Peter, thanks for your input.
I eventually found out what was causing this, but no idea why it should be an issue. The clue was in the error message: "...faulting module IMAGEAPI.dll..." - so I figured it was something to do with an image.
This wasn't happening on the sample projects only on the projects that I created myself. These projects all share a common property, and that is that the topic template contains a placeholder graphic that will (in the individual topics) be a link to another topic. In order to make life easy for myself, I added the placeholder to the template and then attached a hyperlink to '#' to it. It was that that caused the problem - if I remove the dummy '#' from the picture the problem goes away.
It doesn't explain what the issue was, but it fixes it - even though I lose the convenience of having a ready-made hyperlink on all my new graphics.
Cheers
J.

Marking new Topics as "New" with a different graphic

I went through Skinny and dug up the "Marking TOC pages as
'new'" topic, so it sounds like a good thing to have for the
particular project I'm working on.
1. Changed one of the TOC in the project to start with an
asterisk.
2. Genned WebHelp.
3. Went to the output folder and opened whthost.js.
4. Found
sHTML+="target=\""+sTarget+"\" "; and added
if (getItemName(nIdx).charAt(0) == "*")
sHTML+="href=\""+_textToHtml_nonbsp(getItemURL(nIdx))+"\"
title=\""+sName+"\">
<img alt=\""+sAltString+"\" src='YourImageName.gif'
border=0 align=\"absmiddle\"> "+sName+"
</a>";
else
after it.
5. Modified
YourImageName.gif to an already-existing graphic in the
project. (I didn't want to add a baggage file, and just wanted to
see the final result to test it, so I picked one that the project
already uses).
6. Ran my project. This is where it gets caught in an endless
loop. The status bar at the bottom of IE quickly alternates between
messages of "Error on page" and "Opening file .../whtdhtml.htm..."
Is there something that I've missed that I need to modify in
whtdhtml.htm?
This is happening on Internet Explorer 6.0.2.
Any ideas on this one?

I see what happened.
The sHTML line should all fit onto one line.
sHTML+="href=\""+_textToHtml_nonbsp(getItemURL(nIdx))+"\"
title=\""+sName+"\"><img alt=\""+sAltString+"\"
src='bookopen01.gif' border=0
align=\"absmiddle\"> "+sName+"</a>";
Now it's working fine.

Posting New Topics VERY unintuitive.

I want to post a simple question. I would think that posting a question would not require me having to search "how to post a question". It's VERY annoying that it's not obvious. When I click on a category there should be an obvious link on every page. Even the FAQ's and Help pages, while they make is sound simple, are misleading since a "Post a New Topic" link does NOT show up on every page. VERY, VERY frustrating. Less experienced users should not be made to feel like simpletons as these forums were initially designed for specifically for them. In this day and age it should not be that difficult to make things more intuitive.

I would think that posting a question would not require me having to search "how to post a question".
I think that's true.
I also think that your larger point about the shortfall of intuitiveness of the navigation of AD must be at least partly true. Arguably, evidence to that is in the fact that this Feedback forum is inundated with people posting technical questions.
On the other hand, there is a very clear notice at the top of this forum explicitly requesting that technical issues not be posted here. Links to the main page and instructions about how to go about choosing the appropriate forum in which to post technical questions also appear at the top of this forum. These admonitions and instructions are repeatedly overlooked and/or ignored, however, and this leads me to believe that even if explicit instructions about how to locate an appropriate forum in which to ask a question were added to the top of the main page at Apple Discussions, they would also be overlooked or ignored by at least some people.
One might argue (and they have) that in addition to the suggestion that "+If you need help using Discussions, check out the Help & Terms of Use link in the sidebar to the right+," these or similar instructions should be added to the top of the main page, at minimum, and at the top of the list of forums on the category pages as well, to assure that people who are inexperienced in using this kind of site will be steered in the right direction. Others (including Apple) might disagree, pointing out that the vast majority of users who have ended up on the main page of Apple Discussions know what discussion boards are, have navigated to Apple's Discussions purposefully, and can intuit that the lists of hardware and software items on the main page +might at least be a starting point+ in their search for an appropriate place to begin looking for the place to post their questions.
When I click on a category there should be an obvious link on every page.
Of course, there are obvious links on category pages, but these links are to individual forums. It's rather like going to a restaurant: When we are seated at a restaurant, we are handed menus. In this sense, the Apple Discussions main page can be likened to a restaurant menu. In a restaurant menu, items are divided into various groups; the better the restaurant, the greater the number of categories of food items that are listed on the menu. For example, my favorite restaurant here in New York is an Italian place on Thompson Street with a fair sized menu, divided into categories, including +Antipasti E Salumi+, Primi, Secondi and +Piatti Del Giorno+; there is also a separate menu containing the categories, Formaggi, Dolci, +Caffe E Te+, and another containing +Vino Dolce Al Biccchiere/Bottiglie+, +Vino Liquoroso+, +Grappa e Acquavite e Brandy+, Amaro, and Sambuca. For the purpose of our analogy, let's just focus on the dinner menu:
At the top of the list of categories on the dinner menu is +Antipasti E Salumi+, under which are listed Verdura which includes various small vegetable dishes; Carne, which includes various small meat plates; Insalate, under which various salads are listed, and Pesce, under which are listed various small fish plates. A lot to choose from! How do we decide?
Well, we know it's not enough to tell our server that we want an antipasto (just as it's not enough to tell Apple Discussions' server that we have a question about our Apple product). We need to tell them which antipasto we want. There again, it's not enough to tell our server that we'd like a verdura (as it is not enough to click on the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard link on the main page here); we need to be specific about which verdura we want (just like we need to choose a specific aspect of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard about which to post a question) in order to be rewarded, which, in a restaurant, means we are able to enjoy our tasty vegetable plate, and, here in Apple Discussions, that we are able to find a 'Post a new topic' link.
In the end, as I have learned to navigate restaurant menus, I, and most users, have been able to intuit how to navigate the menus here at Apple Discussions without ever having read the Help pages. You can, too!
Good luck!

Is it better to post a new topic if a problem recurs?

I just changed a topic from answered to not answered in the Safari forums because it recurred again. Should I have started a new topic? It has to do with Safari not connecting to the internet. Yesterday I fixed it so when it happened again, I tried the same solution, but it didn't work. So I changed the topic to not answered. then thought, maybe it was better to start a new one? Figured this was the forum to ask that question before starting over?
thank you.
Laverne's Mom

You're welcome!
I am starting to take serious notes as to what I am doing on Safari so that I can pinpoint (hopefully) when it happens. I do know that accurate information about when and what will help all of you help me figure out how to permanently fix it
That's the best thing you can do. You'd be surprised how few do and then try to come to the AD to seek help but don't remember key things that could correct the problem more quickly if at all.
I'm sure ~Bee will pop in over there to add help if she can.
good luck,
littleshoulders

Posting new topics

Other than here I've NEVER been able to figure out how to
post a new topic. How to I post a new topic in the quicktime forum? The little icon I clicked here to make this post doesn't exist over there.

The little icon I clicked here to make this post doesn't exist over there.
If you're logged in and you're not seeing the "Post a New Topic" link, then you're probably looking at a category page, rather than an actual forum page where you can post. A category page lists the forums within that category. Click on the relevant forum in that list and you'll be able to post there.
For example the iPod category page lists a large number of more specific iPod forums in which you can post, starting with "Using your Fifth Generation iPod" and "Connecting the Fifth Generation iPod to Windows" and on down the list from there.
If you're still not sure which kind of page you're on, look at the URL in your address bar. A category page will end with "categoryID=nnn" while a forum page will end with "forumID=nnn."

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