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Ed Geis
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February 23, 2015
Question

How Do I Activate a Previous and a Next (NOT History) Navigation Image/Button?

  • February 23, 2015
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RoboHelp 10, using Multiscreen HTML5 layout; Desktop Layout:
All of my searches result in the same answers, which tell me to insert javascript:history.go(-1) and javascript:history.go(1) into the Link to field of the Hyperlink Properties dialog for my arrow button images in the Screen Layout Editor.

However, all this does is to enable the user to navigate pages already visited (i.e., history). What I need is for the navigation buttons to just page through all of the topics in the order in which the FrameMaker book's pages go (e.g., page Next from 1 through 868 in that sequence).

I sincerely hope that I do not have to manually create a browse sequence for over 800 pages, and four levels of TOC, and if I create a browse sequence automatically from the TOC, doesn't that just allow the user to click through the topics alphabetically?

The vanilla Screen Layout Editor has a 'previous' and a 'next' button, next to the 'print'' icon (which works, by the way). Why don't these browse sequence buttons work?

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Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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February 23, 2015

Hi there

If you have constructed your TOC in a specific order, the browse sequence based on the TOC should follow the order specified in the TOC you are pointing to.

The only way it would do an alphabetical order would be if you built the TOC like that.

Cheers... Rick

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Ed GeisAuthor
Known Participant
February 23, 2015

Okay, now that I have (automatically) created a Browse Sequence from my TOC (using “Auto-create using TOC”), the browse sequence buttons behave in the generated output as follows:

The previous and next buttons work as expected (that is, page back and page forward), but only within a certain TOC level; that is, if I am browsing several topics that are at TOC heading level 3, I can only browse previous and next within those topics in that level. If I open a level 1 heading TOC, I can browse only topics at TOC level 1, but the browse sequence bypasses all sub-level topics underneath level 1, going to the next or previous TOC level 1 topic.

The “Auto-create using TOC” feature in the Browse Sequence Editor is still mysterious to me regarding what it actually does.

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
February 24, 2015

When you created the sequence, you should have seen an option that allowed you to choose the number of levels.

Choose 0.

Cheers... Rick

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