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Anonymous
March 30, 2010
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Limiting search in RoboHelp 8?

  • March 30, 2010
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RH8, generating WebHelp output

When the help output is generated with substring search turned on, is there a way for the help user to limit the results of a search to just the substring entered? For example, to find only the word "cap" without finding "capital."

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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March 30, 2010

Not that I have come across but I would have thought anything with the word "cap" in it would come up in the search results before any topics found by the sub string search. Have you checked that?

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Anonymous
March 31, 2010

Y'know, I would have thought so, too. But the substrings came up first, second, twenty-fifth...

There aren't many occurrences of the string in this project, and (I just realized) it doesn't occur in a topic title, which always gives it better ranking. So maybe ranking won't do the job for me in this case, even if it does work in others.

I did look in the RH8 help here on Adobe; if you don't have a magic search-defining character, I can take a closer look at John Daigle's tutorials.

Thank you, though. If I find one, I'll send it to you for your Snippets.

Elisa

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