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zacharyb
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April 28, 2009
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Creating a direct link to the help topics?

  • April 28, 2009
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Ok I have been building my first RoboHelp project with the help of some good tutorials online.

I have a number of different help topics and they have sub topics.

How do I direct a user when they click on a direct link to a subtopic.  What is the HTML code to use to get to a subtopic?

If I use the HTML file name of the topic, the help TOC on the left doesn't show up.

Does this make sense?

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RoboColum_n_
RoboColum_n_
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April 28, 2009

By "help topics" and "sub topics" are you meaning that you have a help topic that has bookmarks inside it. There are a number of ways to link to these. I find the easiest is to highlight the text you want the link applied to, display the list of topics in the topics pod and click and drag the topic (or bookmark) over the selected text and release.

Note: If you have added a bookmark inside a topic, it does not appear in the list of topics until the topic is saved.

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zacharybAuthor
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April 28, 2009

Hmm, I guess that is correct.

Basically I have five areas in my application and a help icon in each area.  For Example, when the user clicks on the help icon in a certain area, I'd like the Help to open up and display the help info pertaining to that subject.

In the screen capture image I have attached:  I'd like an HTML link to direct the user to "Report Toolbar" under "Report Navigation" under "Reports".

Does that make sense?

RoboColum_n_
RoboColum_n_
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April 28, 2009

OK. Now I understand. What you want is called "Context Sensitive Help". This requires you to produce a map file in RH which basically adds a unique identifier to the help topic that is called by the application. One of my blog posts covers the basics from the RH side. Click here to read it. as far as the application call is concerned, this depends on a number of factors. For example the:

  • Output type (CHM, WebHelp, etc).
  • The application language

If you can let us know the answers to the above, we can point you further in the right direction.

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