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erika-runninggirl
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June 1, 2017
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Links between child projects in a Responsive HTML5 output opening in new tabs - why?

  • June 1, 2017
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Hi,

I have a set of projects one parent and 9 children which have been merged and published as web help. I open the parent help and can see all the children, the children have links from one to another and these when clicked open within the parent tab keeping my TOC structure. So in WebHelp it all works fine

However I have gone through and republished all the projects as Responsive HTML Help using the Assure Blue skin, now:

1 I open the parent help and the TOC for all children is shown correctly

2. I click on a link to one of the child topics in the TOC it opens in the parent tab as expected

3. I click on a link in any of the child topics linking to a topic in a different child project - the 2nd child project opens in a new tab and displays the expected topic NOT what I want.

So how do I get the links in the child projects to open in the parent tab? I have looked at Peter Grainges explanation and cannot see anything I am doing wrong, I tried looking at William van Weeldens site and he does say something about it but I dont understand it. I have looked in the archives here and cant see anything to help becuase when published as WebHelp the behaviour is correct, it is just swapping to Responsive HTML5 which is breaking it.

Thanks for the help

Erika

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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June 2, 2017

Double click one of the links in the source topic to open the dialog. What does it say in Display Frame? Try Default.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring information

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erika-runninggirlAuthor
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June 2, 2017

Hi Peter,

They do say Page default (none), I found by changing the Display Frame to Same Frame I could get it to work correctly. However its a pain to have to go into all the projects and do that, I was wondering if I was missing something obvious

If there isn't an easier option I will just do a find and replace in the code view it just seems odd that it works correctly (in my mind) for merged WebHelp but not for Responsive HTML Help.

Thanks

Erika

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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June 2, 2017

Download the demo merge from my site and upgrade it to RoboHelp 2017. For me that worked fine. If it does for you, then you could compare the settings with your own project.

Am I right in thinking I know you on the forums from way back? Ladbrokes in those days?

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring information

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