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Kelkek
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April 5, 2006
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Multiple TOCs for One Project

  • April 5, 2006
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Is it possible to split the topics in one help project into two toc (hhc) files? I have a master project that merges about 53 chm files. Some of the slave projects are rather large and over the years have had several types of information added to them. The information in the projects are related to each other, but they need to be organized separately in the master TOC. Splitting the projects themselves is not a good solution. I would like to have multiple hhc files for the projects so that the topics can easily be inserted in their logical place in the master TOC.
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Anonymous
March 7, 2007
I would like to maintain one large project t that will encompass all topics as well as display a subset of these topics in a separate MDI in our application, is it best to tag these topics with a separate build tag and generate a second (JavaHelp) layout for the project? I've created a test project and it looks as though JavaHelp creates a new to TOC and keyword search for the 2nd layout, but how do I customize the Index list and glossary for the subtopics?

Any ideas will be helpful as I don't want to have to maintain a separate project as the topics all relate to the same application.

Susan
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Anonymous
April 5, 2006
Hi,

I am TW working jointly with another TW on a huge multifirm project for a same client. He is well versed in RH, while I am a beginner (with using RH) not with TW. He and I each produce large parts of what will be merged into a single huge context sensitive .chm file. Having experimented a bit with possibilities such as the ones you are exploring, I thought we could use it for our project. But the other TW felt we would have problems down the road.

Just to confirm what John says. But then, I also am not adding anything positive by way of solution. Hope somebody else reacts to these two successive negative answers, and comes up with help for you.

Daniel Garneau, CTM, CL
Technical Writer, Canada
Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 5, 2006
Can't you create one TOC, close RH and move the TOC file outside of the project, then open RH and create another?

Whichever TOC you want gets put in the project before you open RH.

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KelkekAuthor
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April 5, 2006
Actually, I may have solved my own problem. I don't want to use two TOCs in the project, I just want to have multiple TOCs (for subsets of the topics in the project), so that when I create my master TOC, in a different project altogether, I can insert those smaller TOCs at appropriate places. It looks like I can create as many TOCs as I want and include them as baggage files. Then, when I go to create my master TOC, one chm file has several hhc file in it. I can choose the one I want. Thanks for the suggestions.
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johnmccallum
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April 5, 2006
Hi Kelkek,

I always have to qualify a negative answer because there are a lot of clever people out there working around problems, but if you try to add a second table of contents to a project, the compiler will ignore the second one, so I don't think this can be done.

John

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