When working in RoboHelp, one of the most efficient things you can do is create a template and attach the template to your project topics.
When creating the template, RoboHelp automatically inserts a title field at the top of the template. The field will contain the name of the template.
If you double-click the field, you will see the Fields and Variables dialog box shown below.
Selecting the Title value from the column at the left offers three Formats in a list at the right. In addition, there’s a check box located in the lower left (Auto-update this field). By default, the box is checked.
After you attach the template to a project topic, the exact purpose of the Title field will not be obvious. If your topic is typical, you’ll have a main headline at the top of the topic with a headline that is identical to the topic’s title.
If you display the properties of the topic (you can right-click a topic and choose Topic Properties) and change the Topic Title via the Topic Properties dialog box, the main headline in the topic will automatically update to reflect the new Topic Title. Cool!
Using the Auto-update this field option can easily be turned off (deselected) and your topic headline’s won’t update every time you change the Topic Title. However, if you are happy with the headline updating every time you change the Topic Title, beware of editing the topic manually and changing the main headline without using the Topic Properties dialog box. If you do, the Title field will be deleted and the headlines’ link to the template will be broken. (You can reinsert the field by choose Insert > Fields and Variables, selecting the Title field and clicking OK.)
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