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A variable is a text phrase or word that serves as a reusable piece of information, simultaneously used across multiple topics in your project. This makes your content easy to update. When you modify a variable or its value, every occurrence of that variable or value is updated across the project. For more information, see Variables in RoboHelp

RoboHelp also supports variable sets, which lets you assign your variables alternate values. For example, a company can sell its products in two or more different geographies. In USA, the product is called Color, and in the UK, the product is called Colour. There can be other differences in branding.

Using variable sets, you first define a different set of values for your variables. When you generate the output, you choose the appropriate variable set, and produce the required output.

Configure Variable sets

You need to configure variable sets before adding any variables to them.

  1. In the Author tab, select Variables. The Variables panel opens.

  2. In the Variables panel, select     to open the Variables editor.

  3. Select   Settings to open the Configure variable sets dialog box.

  4. Add the Name of the Variable set and click   to display the variable set name in the list below.

  5. Select Done. The variable set is displayed in the dropdown of the editor.

create variable set

You can select delete   to remove a variable set.

Variable Set Operations

All variable sets have the same variables but can have different values.

You can view, edit, and preview the values for a specific variable set. Select a variable set from the Variable sets dropdown. The values of  the variables are displayed according to the chosen variable set.

variable set

When you edit the values for the variables in specific variable sets, it overrides the default values and changes the values of the selected variable for that variable set.

Whenever a new variable is added, deleted or duplicated to any variable set, it’s updated for all the other variable sets.

You can also preview the value of the variables from the variables editor. However on selecting the preview option for any variable from the Variables panel will always show the default variable set value.

Reset the value of a variable

Upon creation of a variable set, the value of the variables in the set can be edited. To reset the default value of the variable, select   Reset next to the variable.

reset default value

Generate output with a Variable Set

You can generate the PDF output with the values of different variables. Before generating the layout, choose a variable set from an output preset’s Variable set dropdown list to choose the values.

generating output with variable set

Depending on the Variable Set that you choose, you will get an output corresponding to the variable values defined in the Variable Set. For example, if you select the variable set USA, your output displays the Country name as 'USA', Country capital as 'Washington,D.C.'.

variable set USA

Similarly, if you select the variable set Australia, your output displays the Country name as 'Australia', Country capital as 'Canberra'.

variable set Australia

It means your output displays the variables’ values as defined in that particular set. You can quickly update the values for any variable set whenever required and regenerate the output. For example, if you need to update the details for a version, you can update the value of the version in the Current Version variable and regenerate the output.

Примітка.

You can also select (Default) from the dropdown to publish the default values for all variables.

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