Help & Manual Premium Pack Releases

Released: Aug 4, 2020

Updates in 4.0.4

Features

  • Image toggle close mode (V3 & V4 skins): You can now choose whether an image toggles a close on a click inside or outside the image.
  • Social sharing in V2 WebHelp skins: The social sharing popup in the V2 WebHelp skins has been updated to the latest version used in the V3 and V4 skins. The social sharing now uses scalable SVG icons and simple hyperlinks instead of the widgets that had to be loaded with every page. This means that the social sites now only get a ping when the user...

Released: Mar 23, 2020

Updates in 4.0.3

Features

  • New skin category: The V4 Modern Standard skin category is now included. This is a simple, functional layout similar to Modern Flexible, but without width restriction (always full width), with simple drop-down user-configurable menus in the page header.
  • Modern Compact skins: New settings in Skin Options to disable the logo and link buttons.
  • Flexible and Magazine skins: The MAX_PAGEWIDTH variable in the General Settings variables section now accepts both pixel (px) and percent (%) values...

Released: Feb 9, 2020

Updates in 4

Features

  • Added a range of modern new skin variants with full color configurability with an easy-to-use interface.
    • Modern Magazine skins.
    • Modern Flexible skins.
    • Advanced Compact skins.
  • WordPress plugin has been updated to allow access to multiple WebHelp collections on a single WordPress site.

Released: Jan 20, 2020

Updates in 3.50

Features

  • Google Analytics - Updated from the older gat.js system to the new analytics.js system. This should be more reliable. In addition to this you can now configure inclusion of the WebHelp path, named trackers and the titles of the search and keyword index events in your Google Analytics console.
  • No Server Mode - Demo links in the header menus failed in some browsers because they used the shorthand // protocol instead of http:// or https://. Browsers have become stricter about resolving...

Released: Nov 29, 2019

Updates in 3.49

Features

V3 Skins (WebHelp and eWriter versions)

  • Search highlighting: When the topic already containing search highlighting was selected in the search results after a new search the original highlighting was not removed.
  • Google Analytics: Occasionally it was possible for the first topic visited to be tracked twice.
  • Google Analytics: Ghostery and other similarly aggressive tracking blockers will no longer cause a critical error in WebHelp. These blockers simply kill the tracking function within...

Released: Oct 11, 2019

Updates in 3.48

Features

CHM skins

  • Topic header components - Improved scaling on modern, high-resolution monitors and Microsoft Windows devices.
  • Drop-down menu components - Improved scaling on modern, high-resolution monitors and Microsoft Windows devices.
  • Topic header title text color - New variable (HD_TEXTCOLOR in the Header Components group) setting the topic header title color in the skin. This eliminates the need to set the color correctly in the Help+Manual project.

Toolbox utility

  • Close project warning...

Released: Apr 18, 2019

Updates in 3.47

Features

V3 WebHelp and eWriter Skins

  • Anchors with keywords: Selecting anchors with keywords in the keyword index caused a JavaScript error and did not open a toggle associated with the anchor. This was a side-effect of the Google Analytics query feature added in 3.46.
  • Non-server mode: The optional q=search+term addition to the URL for Google Analytics for search and keyword index clicks added in 3.46 is now automatically disabled when V3 WebHelp is accessed without a web server. This caused...

Released: Dec 12, 2018

Updates in 3.46

Fixes

Toolbox utility

  • The Normalize Styles tool failed to identify some styles as paragraph styles and incorrectly reported that the style could not be found. The affected styles were styles based on other styles without explicit paragraph attributes of their own.
  • Some HM projects converted from Help+Manual 4 would cause Toolbox to crash and close when they were opened.
  • The Add/Remove Topic ID Prefixes function failed without completing on some projects with an unusual combination of settings...

Released: Jul 6, 2018

Updates in 3.45

Features

  • New Samurai Red Skins - Adds a total of six new V3 Samurai Red skins, with Boxed, Flat and Minimalist versions for both WebHelp and EWriter. Matching tablet and phone modes are included in all three WebHelp skin variants.

Fixes

V3 Skins

  • The social sharing option did not always disable in phone mode when it was turned off.
  • A change in the Safari browser on Mac computers prevented V3 WebHelp from working correctly in local mode without a web server.
  • If the topic title contained an...

Released: Dec 1, 2017

Updates in 3.41

Features

  • Improved Compatibility with Firefox - Updated skins to prevent some clickable items from being disabled on Windows touch screen devices in the major new Firefox update.
  • Index Entries with Multiple References - If a keyword index entry has multiple entries, the list is now displayed in a positioned box with scrollbars.
  • Removal of Internal Window Name - An unnecessary internal window name prevented opening successive URLs to the WebHelp in the same window from a Web application.