If you are a RoboHelp author and have been testing WebHelp on your local PC via IE 6, you've likely come across the annoying, yellow Information bar that appears at the top of your browser. You know the one, you have to right-click it and allow blocked content before your WebHelp skin will appear. Arghhhhh!
The Information bar will not be a problem if users are viewing your help system via a Web server. However, if the help system is on a local drive instead of a server, the alert appears.
I'd been meaning to post a way to turn off the alert message for some time. I never got around to it until a student recently emailed me the steps as a gentle reminder to post them. Special thanks to Florita Welsh, Instructional Designer at Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P for sending the steps that appear below.
- Choose Tools > Internet Options
- Select the Advanced Advanced
- Scroll down.
- Under the Security category, select Allow active content to run in files on My Computer
- Click OK
From this point forward, when viewing your generated WebHelp, you should be able to see the skins with no problems.
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