Map ID Madness

Question

First of all, I must say that I hate Robo X5's "Edit Map IDs"
dialog box. It's way too small. If I could make it full screen at
least, it might help. But that's not my main problem here.

I use FrameMaker 7 to write content, and then import this
content into Robo X5 HTML in order to create a chm help file. We
need map id's for the programmers, so I use the "Edit Map IDs"
(clumsily) to match up the map id's with the topics. I reuse the
same .h file every time. So at least the numbers get preserved
there. BUT is there a way like a "topic alias marker " or something
that I can use in Framemaker so I don't have to map the numbers to
the topics in Robo? It's very tedious, especially with the almost
unusable Edit Map IDs box in Robo.

Thanks

Mark

johnmccallum · Accepted Answer

Mark,I don't know if this will be of much help but back in version7 of RH, we found the Edit Map IDs dialog to be frustrating (anderroneously documented as well) so we rolled up our sleeves andfound out how it all worked. Ever since, we have been creating allof our context sensitive help in WordPad. The .hh and .ali filesare text files so it is possible to sort and drag and drop topicfile names, map IDs, and map numbers in any kind of text editor youplease completely bypassing the RH dialog.I would recommend opening up the .h and .ali files withNotepad, checking out the structure, and figuring out what willwork for you.John

wonkle · Answer

Thanks JohnThat will save me a lot of work. I can just reuse previous .hand .ali files, and simply manually edit them from now on.Awesome!

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