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alexl11972377
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May 29, 2018 4:36 PM UTC
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Topic naming when publishing FM 2017 to HTML 5

When I publish an FM 2017 book as HTML 5, the chapter-level topics get auto-named based on the FM file names. E.g., Chapter_1.fm becomes Chapter_1.html. Is there a way to have the topics auto-named based on the chapter titles, not file names?  E.g., Getting Started.html rather than Chapter_1.html. Topic file names are shown in the HTML 5 OLH's Search pane as "titles" of the found text blurbs, and titles like "Chapter_1" look weird. I could rename the FM files... but that would clash with some rules and conventions.

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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May 29, 2018 4:52 PM UTC

There was a feature in the FM to RH workflow that allowed you to use marker text to set the file name, but I don't recall if that will still work in the FM Publish workflow - Matt may have a better idea, but he may be tied up in his latest course this week.

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alexl11972377Author
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May 30, 2018 2:44 PM UTC

Jeff, thanks for the prompt reply. The problem is that I'm not using RH at all. The Publish process is straight from FM 2017 to the ready-for-use HTML 5 OLH. I'm quite sure RH is somewhere there, behind the scenes... but it does not expose any usable controls or config options.

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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May 30, 2018 2:52 PM UTC

Yeah, I knew that, I was just suggesting that the same mechanism might work for you in the FM Publish route (and you're correct, it is RH guts hiding deep down inside there). I never used the marker trick, so I can't give you details, but I'm sure there's a record of how it's done on the forums or in the help.

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