Can I change my URL when Robohelp generates a HTML5 output?

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March 14, 2017
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In the company where I work for, we use RoboHelp 2017 and we're exporting our helps to HTML5.

Those helps will be shown in the software developed by the company as well as in our website.

Ok, so far so good. The problem is that they asked me if it is possible to change the URL structure (before generating a HTML5 output).

They would like to replace it by anyword, for example:

insted of showing

http://delphi/examplehtml5/responsive_HTML5/index.htm=Menus%2FMenu_Start%2FInicio.htm

It should display this customized URL:

http://delphi/examplehtml5/responsive_HTML5/index.htm=START

The purpose is that those words will be "anchors" that will help us to publish our help online.

So that everytime a customer clicks F1 it will open the window explaining about the subject where he/she is navigating.

So that what I want is to choose a word to be part of this URL.

Is it possible to change it in RoboHelp?

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camilaf3199346Author

Inspiring

I think reading his website we can find an answer. Thank you all!

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Amebr

Community Expert

It sounds like you want Context Sensitive Help.

Have a look at the articles about context sensitivity on Willam's site

camilaf3199346Author

Inspiring

Great, Amebr.

I've just read the article. Do you think I could do something inside RoboHelp for providing context sensitivity or should I give all my files then programmer would handle it? I am a technical writer, but I am the only one who deals with RoboHelp.

Peter Grainge

Community Expert

Calling the help is a job for the developers. Your role is to provide the help and that may or may not require you to do things with the help before handing it over. It depends on how the developers want to call the help.

The method of using words is not one commonly used, indeed the nearest I have seen was someone who wanted to use Topic IDs. That method is described on my site but it was for WebHelp. I guess the topic ID could be a word but then that would be found in searches so one step forward and on step backward.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring information