Problem with topic used multi times in toc - html5

Thanks! I will try it and consider doing the fix right! Much appreciated.

Yup!

Thanks both of you! For now, I am going to rework my information architecture, implement some browse sequences, and beef up my product type filtering!

So, to confirm, if I create a rich snippet with paras, lists, tables, related topics links, and filters, I can then call them in dummy topics and they will behave like a topic?

About 1/2 my help system is re-used topics...this really is the RoboHelp way for content reuse?

I had to learn this the hard way when I discovered my developers liked sticking the same program in multiple places within the software's menu structure with different names which led me to believe they were different instances, when they really were all the same program (cursed object-oriented programming!)

It's either what Jeff has suggested or new topics with redirects in them so the same amount of work. I think the snippets is probably an easier solution and I only mention this for the sake of completeness.

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Okay, thanks! That is significant rework on my project, ugh - lots of whole topics to be turned into snippets, which I have not worked with.

But it will need to be done. Lesson learned!

Can I assume that a dummy topic with a snippet will behave just like any other topic with respect to toc, nav sequence, links, master pages for PDF and HTML5 output, context senstive calls (ugh, I have to update that framwork with the software team to call the new dummy topics, I guess...) and interactions with the CSS and JSS within the HTML5 template?

Ok, that's what I suspected - whenever you need to "preserve" the same content in multiple locations, you need to use a snippet for the content and then create dummy blank topics using the snippet content in the "correct" spots for your TOC and "landing pages" - that way your "flow" is preserved and your user isn't bouncing all over the place.

I have manually created a page with links to topics...

In screenshot, item 1, you go to the landing page and the toc is correct.

But...when you click the link, item 2 (red arrows), you are taken out of this book and into the first book where that topic appears (the book for the other product's onboarding sequence).

When you talk of "onboarding landing pages" are you creating a kind of "browse sequence" (i.e. to accomplish this task, do this topic first, then this one, then this one, etc.?)