Exclude Topics from Search

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July 14, 2009
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Hello,

I am looking for a way to exclude published topics, pop-ups, etc., from Search after publishing in WebHelp. We are using RH7 HTML. I searched the forum but I couldn't find a thread on this. I would appreciate any information anyone could provide about my question. Thanks,

TW

HTML

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Peter Grainge

Community Expert

You want to exclude published topics and popups. What's left?

RoboHelp 8 has an option in Topic Properties to exclude that topic and Rick Stone has a method that does the job for earlier versions. It is the same as described here (I think).

http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2008/04/excluding_content_from_being_searched_in_robohelp_projects.html

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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A

Anonymous

Can someone help me determine what I am missing? I have searched the forum, but I have not found any helpful information regarding this specific issue.

I am using RH8.

I selected the Topic Properties > Exclude from Search option. The topic is excluded from searches in WebHelp. The topic is NOT excluded from searches in HTML Help (.chm files). What am I missing?

Captiv8r

Legend

Hi Cal

You aren't missing a thing. Please report this as a bug. I did. Afterward, Adobe contacted me and advised that this was a limitation for .CHM output. I disagree. There is a way to coax files to be excluded from search in a .CHM. So in my opinion, if I can make it work by kludging things outside of RoboHelp, they should tweak RoboHelp so it works within the product, no?

Unfortunately it doesn't help at the moment, but it may for the future if Adobe hears from enough of us. That happens via the Bug Report. (link is in my sig).

Here is how you exclude from search in a .CHM. You sneak behind RoboHelp's back and rename the topic you wish to exclude from having a .htm extension to having a .xhtm extension. Of course this will break any links. Don't sweat that. We will fix it.

This will also show the topic as missing in action. So you delete the topic (but not the references) and you add the new .xhtm version to your list of Baggage Files. Once you do that, you simply amend any links to now look for .xhtm and not just .htm.

Recompile and you should be golden.

Cheers... Rick