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Associating Content to a Folder

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July 14, 2011
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RoboHelp 9.0.0.228/Server 9

WebHelp Pro

Single Project (upgraded from RH x5 to RH9)

Is it possible to attach content at the folder level? I would like content (or a topic) to display when an end-user clicks on a folder from the Table of Contents. The idea is to provide an introduction/explaination of the topics contained in that folder in greater detail than what is revealed by the folder's title.

Eva

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Correct answer Captiv8r

Hi Eva

Based on what you have stated it would seem you are maybe using Folders instead of Books and Pages in your Table of Contents? If so, you just right-click the Book in the TOC editor and choose to associate a topic to the book by clicking the check box.

Cheers... Rick

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namedujour

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If you have a parent/child project, and your folder needs to link to a topic in a different child project, you need to hard code it to the published file. In other words, you have to right click that topic on the TOC in the published project to obtain and copy the url. Then paste it into your "Book with Link > Link To" field. At the present time there is no way to link to other projects within Robohelp.

Captiv8r

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Hi Mareen

I hate to be disagreeable here, but I have to disagree.

I've accomplished a great many things with RoboHelp that others have claimed or though was impossible for the tool to achieve. You just have to have a good working knowledge of the technolgy and be willing to think creatively.

There are a couple of different ways I can think of to achieve that behavior.

First, as long as you know the ultimate relative pathing to the desired topic, it should accept it, no?

Second, one could easily create a topic in the source project that has been configured to redirect to the appropriate topic in the child. Then link to that topic from the master TOC.

Cheers... Rick

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I haven't attempted it since RH6, but relative paths didn't work then. As I recall, they worked on the test server but not on the published server.

What do you mean by creating a topic in the source project that redirects to the appropriate child? Isn't that just a link?

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RoboAsh

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HI Eva,

Yes it is definitely possible to associate topics to Folder in the project manager after it comes as a book in TOC (by Auto create TOC or dragging the folders in the TOC pane).

The process will be to keep such explaining topics out of the TOC and later in the books generated for Folders in TOC should be converted to "book with Link" as shown by RIck and then the links these books with the topics that explain them.

Hope this will help
Ashish

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Legend

Hi Eva

Based on what you have stated it would seem you are maybe using Folders instead of Books and Pages in your Table of Contents? If so, you just right-click the Book in the TOC editor and choose to associate a topic to the book by clicking the check box.

Cheers... Rick

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