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Anonymous
June 20, 2006
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Merged TOC Links are Missing

  • June 20, 2006
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Please help! I cannot get the sub-project individual page links to open from the major projects TOC.
The .hhp contains the Contents file and is correct.
The sub-project .chm file is contained as baggage in the Major project folder.
The subproject's hhc file is current. It also displays correctly when the .chm for sub-project is opened directly in the major project's folder. Just not from the Major project's .chm...what is going on? I even copied the sub-projects .hhc file in the major projects folder with the .chm.
Help! Please!
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RoboWizard
RoboWizard
Inspiring
June 20, 2006
Hi EileenT and welcome to our community.

First off, I think you have a general misunderstanding of how merged .CHM files work. All should be separate files and typically stored in the same folder location. I say this because you mention that you have added the sub to baggage. This would cause the sub .CHM to be stored inside the master .CHM.

So have you tried simply ensuring that both .CHM files are inside the same folder?

Cheers... Rick
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Anonymous
June 20, 2006
Hi Rick and thanks for answering!
Well, I didn't mean to suggest that I added the sub-project .chm to baggage, RH did when I added the .chm thru Merge Project in the TOC within the major project. Hope that made sense. Really, you shouldn't need to do more than merge the project into the major project's TOC, correct. RH automatically places the sub-project .chm in the same folder with the master.chm and all should work, correct?
RoboWizard
RoboWizard
Inspiring
June 20, 2006
Hi EileenT

Okay, I think you are possibly confusing the TOC entry point and the MergeFiles section of the HHP to mean baggage. No biggie. As long as the file isn't truly in baggage, you should be fine.

Okay, now for something completely different. When you decide to merge, RoboHelp dutifully and helpfully copies the other .CHM file to the same folder. But here is where the process goes wonky on you. The process does not copy the other .CHM to the !SSL!\Microsoft_HTML_Help folder where the output normally ends up. Consequently, if you just click the View button once the compile is finished, you don't see the other file, because it's not there.

Hopefully this makes sense... Rick :)
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