Context Sensitive Help

So, what I think you have is a list of screens in the application? And you need to advise the developer of the correct topic for each screen?

If so, you can just provide the URL in the spreadsheet, or whatever file the developer gave you. A relative path should be enough as long as the developer knows where the help lives.

(My personal preference is to get the developers to set up proper CSH, just because it means that either the dev or I can change things around and not have to worry about making sure all of the URLs in the application/help get updated-don't get me started on the recurring "challenges" I've had-but you may not have time or buy-in to implement this.

If you wanted to go this route for a web app, I'd recommend looking at the 'Calling webhelp using topicids' on Peter's site - in my experience web-devs tend not to use the 'map number'. So the map/topic id would be the 'name' of the screen (no spaces or any of the special characters as per Robohelp help), which the developer would provide to you, you'd add them to a map file in Robohelp and assign map numbers and topics (the developer wouldn't need to know anything about this), then the developer would just implement the csh help call as per Peter's site.

But again, this takes work and buy-in, so consider this just a rough sketch of possible workflow. )

Yes – see Peter Grainge’s site (grainge.org) & Willam van Weelden’s site (wvanweelden.eu)