RoboHelp 2019 - The Glossary

Click the Glossary icon in the Project toolbar and click the + icon to create a glossary.

If you have multiple Glossaries, when you expand one of them by clicking the right chevron, the others are temporarily hidden so that you can focus on the open Glossary. As soon as you collapse a Glossary, the others will be displayed again.

Hover over glossary accordion bar to see options to rename or delete the glossary.

To create a term, expand the glossary by clicking the right chevron and click the + icon again to enter the term name and the definition.

After you have created a glossary term, you can hover over it to delete it or change the definition.

To add the term to a topic, drag to where it is required.

Displaying Glossary Terms

When you generate an output, there is a Glossary Style option that allows you to display the glossary term as Expanding Text, a Pop-up or a Tooltip.

If your preferred option is Expanding Text, it looks neater in the output if you enclose the definition in brackets to separate it from the hotspot and any following text.

Importing and Exporting Glossaries

You can import/export a glossary from/to any version of RoboHelp.

To import a glossary into RoboHelp 2019, you select an existing glossary or create a new empty glossary and then click the menu and select the Import option.

There is a check box allowing you to leave existing definitions in an existing glossary or replace them and you can select which terms to import.

Converting Topic Text to a Glossary Hotspot

This can be done using a script. See Scripts.