New in HelpConsole 2012 (Oct 22, 2012)
- Paste images directly from clipboard (requires Chrome)
- New ‘Upload & Insert Image’ function allows users to quickly select an image on their harddrive or server to insert into the page
- New “Single Webpage” format. All help content is contained in one html page. Contents is displayed at the top of the manual. Index is displayed at the bottom. This format is also used to generate the PDF manual
- New “MS Word” format. All help content is contained in one MS Word document. The Contents is displayed at the top of the manual. Images are linked, but the user can manually embed them
- Improved Contents/Page locking
- Improved Treeview (new move up/down/left/right functions)
- Improved ‘Add Page’ & ‘Delete page’ functions
- Import pages from another project
- Improved Popups. Popup size is automatic based on the size of the content. Width & Height can be defined if desired. Popups are now displayed in div tags instead of tags
- New ‘Page Header’ function allows authors to display different page headers/footers based on the page type
- Static help systems and pdf manual to be published by passing parameters in the URL. This allows administrators to schedule the publish process each night
- which allows users to click links within the popup window
- New ‘Broken Links’ report
- Page editor now supports strict mode (used to be quirks mode) which ensures that edit view and live view are the same
- Show Google Translation. Specify parameter in url to allow help to be displayed in different language
- Improved Skin Editor (Region height now calculated automatically)
- Improved “Insert” function (combine variables & page objects, show descriptions for all)
- Remote import (allow import files to be uploaded via zip file)
- Custom contents icons (allow icons to be uploaded & deleted)
- Custom page icons (allow icons to be uploaded & assigned to a specific page via properties)
- Improved Styling
- Right to left support
- Full server support for IE9
- Custom page titles (title shown in browser)
- Upload function improved. Backup files larger than 40 megs can now be uplodated
- Project details such as 'size', '#Pages', 'created date', 'modified date' can be viewed on manage projects screen
- New 'Admin Toolbar' displayed when a user logs into a project
- New 'Manage Projects' icon displayed when a user logs into a project
- Users can now add and delete pages without locking the contents
- When a page is added, it is immediately opened in edit mode
- When a page is deleted, it is immediately deleted without having to also click 'save'
- Dragging & dropping pages in contents has been improved
- New 'URL' page property allows external url to be changed
- Internal page can be converted to external page
- External page can be converted to internal page
- Page properties now displayed above contents
- New ‘Page Type’ property
- Page status, keywords, pagename now stored with the page record instead of in the contents
- Saving contents no longer refreshes the entire screen
- New full screen editing mode
- Improved 'Insert Variable' function displays a description for each variable
- Improved 'Insert Page Object' function displays a description for each page object
- Style editor text area can now be resized
- Improved preview on 'manage skins' screen
- Customizable browser icon (favicon.ico) implemented for static help systems
- Improved project properties form
- New ‘Restricted Help System’ property. Requires user to login before viewing content
- Faster PDF Generation. Switched to evopdf controls to overcome ABCPDF’s lack of IE9 support. It will be much faster. New option to place one page under another, or start on a new PDF page. Caching issues with ABCPDF have been addressed with evopdf. Performance comparison to publish 120 pages: 30 seconds with evopdf vs 102 seconds with abcpdf