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ajwwhitney96
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July 2, 2014
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can I add a topic link to a desktop layout sidebar tab?

  • July 2, 2014
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Hello,

I'm currently working in Robohelp 10 and using a modified version of the desktop layout. We don't need the Glossary tab in the sidebar, so I'd like to replace it with a Videos tab instead. I was able to add a new tab to the sidebar without a problem, but I'm having difficulty figuring out where to go from here. Ideally, when users click on Videos, I'd like it to launch one of our topics that already lists all our current videos and includes links to them. Is it possible to do this? Or is my only option to manually add the video links to that tab's section in the Topic.slp HTML? I'd like to avoid this if possible, since it would mean maintaining the videos list in multiple locations within the help project.

Thanks in advance,

Alison

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Willam van Weelden
Willam van Weelden
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July 3, 2014

The question is always how much time and effort you are willing to invest. The easy answer is that the tab in the sidebar does not load topics, or any other data for that matter. If you want this behaviour, you will have to create it yourself.

It is possible to create a script to load the list of video's from a predetermined location. But if you want to get it from a topic, the script will have to be interesting as it will require a lot of parsing the topic to get the relevant data. An easier solution would be to maintain an XML with links and descriptions and read that. I offer consultancy for building precisely these kinds of solutions. Please PM me if you want to know more.

Kind regards,

Willam

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ajwwhitney96Author
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July 3, 2014

Hi, Willam,

Thanks for the information - I had a feeling that it wouldn't be a simple process. Not sure where we'll go from here, but I will definitely keep you in mind if we decide to go this route.

Kind regards,

Alison

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 3, 2014

A book in the TOC labelled Videos linked to a page with links?

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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