Calling WebHelp From Web Page

Question

Greetings, First off, yes I did check the forums and went to pages authored and linked by Daigle [1], Grainge [2] and others. Those are great pages, yet for me a problem remains. When help is called: (1) A *small* window opens in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. (2) The window seems to ignore the context-sensitive call. No matter which numeric value I specify for the call, the web page always opens to first page of the project. (3) This behavior is also observed when using John Daigle's sample: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/context_help_pt2.zip ~~~ Gory Detail ~~~ I have this lin in the HEAD section of the page.

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I am using FireFox on Xp. Any advice you could provide on this subject would be helpful. Thank You! [1] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp/articles/context_help.html# [2] http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/calling_webhelp/calling_webhelp.htm http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/calling_webhelp/using_map_ids_merged.htm

Peter Grainge · Answer

I set something up for someone else so click this link and see it work.

http://www.grainge.org/test/cshcall/startpage.htm#csh.htm

For help on your local drive, the call would then be something like

file:///C:/rh7_test/!SSL!/WebHelp/startpage.htm#csh.htm

With this method you are not using the RoboHelp_CSH.js file. Is that something you have added to the source or to the output.

Create a simple project that has a default topic and a topic that you want to call when opening the help, call that Context topic as I have in the example. When you generate the help locally, change the start page name in the wizard to startpage.htm. That way you have startpage.htm, default.htm and csh.htm. Makes it simple to see what is going on.

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