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edcbittner
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February 12, 2016
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How Do I Turn Off Search on Glossary Definitions

  • February 12, 2016
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RH11 WebHelp. Novice/Intermediate Search Experience. Large Merged Project. I do not want the user search to pick up terms in a glossary definition. Seems to give certain pages too many hits and elevates topics in the Search Results that should not be elevated. Confuses my users and I do not see how to turn it off anywhere.

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Willam van Weelden
Willam van Weelden
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February 19, 2016

I don't believe this is possible. When creating output, the glossary definitions are converted to regular text. So the search doesn't know the difference.

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edcbittnerAuthor
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February 19, 2016

Rats. Thanks!

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edcbittnerAuthor
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February 19, 2016

Hi there

One way you could achieve this would be to ignore the built in RoboHelp glossary function. Then create a normal topic that contains Glossary Terms and Definitions and link to that topic as needed.

Benefits are:

From the Topic Properties you are able to tell RoboHelp to exclude this topic when searching.

In a topic that functions as a Glossary, you would also have the ability to include supporting images as well as hyperlinks.

Cheers... Rick


Thanks – that’s a possibility both for restricting search and  the whole images ability (very attractive). Still… shoot. Was hoping to make use of built-in functions. Good food for thought though – awesome!

ELLEN BITTNER Senior Technical Writer

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