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What's new in RoboHelp (2022 release) Update 3

RoboHelp (2022 release) Update 3 contains various new features such as Citation Management, Snippets Categorization, publishing output to Atlassian Confluence, and various enhancements for CSS editor, PDF, FTP, or SFTP publishing. 

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Install the update

Ensure that you've an active Internet connection.

To install Update 3 of the 2022 release of RoboHelp, select Help > Check for Updates.

Then follow the instructions.

Alert:

The above-mentioned update process isn't applicable for users on Update 1 of RoboHelp (2022 release). If you're using Update 1, you must manually download and install Update 3 from here: Windows and macOS.  

For more information, view this community post.

Citation Management

With RoboHelp Update 3, you can add citations to your project. Citations are used as an acknowledgment of the sources that were referred to in your content. Add citations to your content in multiple styles like Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), Chicago, Institute of Electricals and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and American Heart Association (AHA). You can also add a bibliography or references page at the end of PDF output.

For more information on adding and applying citations, view Create and manage citations

Add citation

Snippet Categorization

With the latest update of RoboHelp, you can organize your snippets within categories. You can save your snippets in meaningful categories to search and use them quickly.

For more information about how to add a snippet category, view Single-source with snippets.

Add snippet category

Publish output to Atlassian Confluence

Adobe RoboHelp now allows you to publish Knowledge Base output directly to Atlassian Confluence. Confluence is a team workspace to create, collaborate and organize all the work in one place.

For more information on setting up the publish profile and preset, view Publish to Confluence Knowledge Base.

Confluence output settings

Redesign of CSS editor

In this update, the CSS editor is redesigned for a better user experience with the introduction of new selectors and style properties.

For more information on adding styles in the CSS editor, view Apply Styles.

Enhancement In Add style dialog box

Selectors are used to merge multiple styles together to form one methodical style form for the content. You can now add selectors to create a new style. 

add new style

Management of custom PROPERTIES OF STYLEs

RoboHelp Update 3 introduces you to a new properties table under the Preview section for styles. You can edit the custom properties of style more efficiently and quickly from the properties table. 

property panel to edit style

Customizing PDF output

With this update, you can customize the PDF output with chapter page break and front matter and back matter options for page layouts.

Chapter page break in PDF

Now you can also start a chapter from the current page. If you choose to do so, all chapters are published in continuation without any page breaks. For example, if a chapter ends in the middle of page 15, the next chapter starts from the 15th page itself.

For more details on chapters, view Advanced PDF settings.

settings for Chapter break from any page

Page Layouts for front matter and back matter in PDF

With RoboHelp Update 3, style the front and back matter pages of your PDF. Design the front matter layout and use them as fallback layout for  TOC, List of Figures, and List of Tables. Similarly, design the back matter layout and use them as fallback layout for Index, Glossary, and Citations pages.

For more details on front matter and back matter, view Advanced PDF settings.

Front and back matter settings in templates

Bugs fixed in this release

To check the list of bugs that have been fixed in this release, view Fixed issues.

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