Will Sansbury

This one comes in response to a question on the Author-it users’ forum from Kathi Bruce, who asked:
Is there a way to change the default to have the TOC expanded on open? We would like smaller books (with fewer Chapters and topics)to open with the TOC expanded, but to open larger books with [...]

When two topics have identical HTML file names and are included in the same book, Author-it generates a completely blank, zero-byte file by the shared file name.
There is no method within Author-it for tracking down these duplicate file names (the HTML file name field is not searchable).
However, if you’re using SQL server, you can [...]

This VB script sets the date on each topic to the last modified date from the Author-it database.

Add this comment to the top of the HTML template that generates your topics:
<!–
Topic
<pagetitle>
<authorit:SYS_MODIFIED>
–>

Add _SetLastModifiedDatesOnFiles.vbs to the list of additional files on your book or media object.
Then add
wscript _SetLastModifiedDatesOnFiles.vbs
to your AfterPublish.bat.
I also recommend adding
del _SetLastModifiedDatesOnFiles.vbs
to the [...]

Click the link below to add the Author-it users group to the search engines in your Firefox search toolbar.
Install - Version for Yahoo! groups search
Install - Version for searching on Hamish Blunck’s site

In response to a post by Ron C. Johnson to the Author-it users’ group, I wrote a Visual Basic script to generate an HTML file that contains a list of all topics and their last modification date.

Step one: Modify the custom HTML template to pass the information the VB script will need. Add this to [...]

SmartTop is a script I put together to address a need of a user on the AuthorIT users list. Debi wanted to place at the bottom of each page in her xHTML help a link that would scroll the frame back to the top of the page. She did not, however, want the link to [...]

Since we adopted AuthorIT as our HAT a few months back, everyone has been impressed with how it has changed our department’s workflow. The only real holdouts have been the installs developers, who think that anything that isn’t stored in Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is completely devoid of value.
So, to keep from having to deal [...]