We have just updated Premium Pack 4 to version 4.1.0. This update introduces a large number of both minor and major improvements. The most extensive change is an overhaul of the embedded and field level help system for both regular WebHelp and WordPress sites to support multiple WebHelp collections and WebHelp collections on remote servers.
How to get the Premium Pack update
You can download and install the updated version with the download link and personal installation password you received when you purchased. If you no longer have these details please contact support@ec-software.com and we will help you out. See the Premium Pack product page for more details on Premium Pack 4 and visit our online store to purchase if you do not yet have it.
Code certificate updated
The code signing certificate used for the Premium Pack installer and Toolbox utility has just been updated. Because of this you may see a dialog asking you to confirm that you want to trust the publisher before installing. This is normal with “fresh” certificates until they have re-established their trust level.
Remote and multiple domains in embedded & field-level help and WordPress:
It is now possible to use embedded and field-level help from multiple WebHelp documentation systems on the same web page. In addition to this you can also embed WebHelp hosted on other web servers, not only on the same server as the HTML pages on which you are embedding and displaying the help. These new features are supported both in regular WebHelp and in the WordPress plugin.
See the updated Embedded and Field-Level Help chapter for full details.
V3 and V4 WebHelp Skins
- Print Topic functionality: Improvement of topic printing in local no web server mode, both with the hamburger menu function and directly via the browser’s own print function.
- Printing only first page: In some browsers only the first page of multi-page topics would be printed.
- Print breadcrumbs: There is now an option to include the breadcrumb trail above the topic title when the user prints topics.
- Inline toggle icons: Inline text toggles with icons are now also supported in these skins.
- TOC autohide in mobile mode: When the TOC is folded over the topic content on mobile devices it now automatically slides out of view when a topic is selected. This new option is configurable.
- Buttons as popup links: These are now supported.
- Magazine skins: Calling context IDs via the URL didn’t work in the magazine skins because of a small internal error.
- Magazine skins: TOC width was sometimes too narrow when opening/closing.
- Flexible skins: The icon for page header open/close in the divider between the TOC and topic panes was hidden on the first load when the help was embedded.
- Modern Standard skins:
These skins have been generally overhauled and tidied up for better appearance and easier editing.- Maximum width setting: These skins now also have a HELP_MAXWIDTH setting for limiting the width of the help window in large browser windows.
- iPad and iPhone behavior: The TOC pane could be narrower than the tabs above it on first access on some iPhone and iPad devices.
- Swipe to change TOC pane width: Did not work on older iPad Mini devices.
- General layout: A large number of minor tweaks and improvements to the layout in these skins.
V3 eWriter Skins
- Title bar display in eViewer: You can now configure the title bar display in eViewer in the same way as in WebHelp. Options: Current topic title, current project name, current project name and current topic title.
Print breadcrumbs: There is now an option to include the breadcrumb trail above the topic title when the user prints topics. - Inline toggle icons: Inline text toggles with icons are now also supported in these skins.
- Buttons as popup links: These are now supported.
Toolbox Utility
- Variables without names and unregistered baggage files: Toolbox now checks for the existence of variables without names and unregistered files in the baggage section and can correct this. (This can sometimes happen when the XML of your project file is generated programmatically or edited manually.)
- Baggage files incorrectly shown as edited: Sometimes baggage file listings would be highlighted red as edited when this was not the case.
- RTF build option removed: This option is no longer relevant in Help+Manual 7 and 8, which now generate Word DOCX by default.
- Context and Edit menu updating: Sometimes the right-click context menu and Edit menu for Baggage files would not update correctly after adding a Baggage file to the current skin or project.
- Baggage file handling: General handling of Baggage files improved, including better distinction of the differences between the processing of Baggage files in projects and skins when writing back to the project.
Help update
- The Premium Pack help has been updated and extended with more detailed information for version 4.