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Nick27
Inspiring
August 28, 2009
Question

Project View as tree menu?

Just wondering if the project view for my very large document can display as a tree style menu in RH itself when I'm working with it?

I just imported the doc, 500 pages, loads of topics at H1, 2, 3 and each heading level paginated so  I have a seperate topic for each, but I would like them to indent under each other, similar to how Windows Explorer indents folders within folder. Can this be done? surely, just to make it easier to view my whole project and arrange things neatly.

Thanks.

nick

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    Anonymous
    September 1, 2009

    I think you have to have folders to get indented levels in the Project tree. You can add them manually (right-click on the top-level folder, New..., Folder) and drag topics into them. Do it in RoboHelp, not Windows Explorer - that way, RH creates the Explorer folders automatically. It doesn't work the other way around.

    I haven't imported a big Word doc, so I don't know if there's a way to automate folder creation during Word conversion. I'm pretty sure you can't automate folder creation after Word conversion.

    HTH,

    Elisa

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    Nick27Author
    Inspiring
    September 2, 2009

    thanks for that.

    disappointed. makes having to look through 1000 topics really difficult, and to get an idea of how the help file will look even harder. I saw the contents page displays how I want the menu to display, so perhaps I will work from that to get my tree menu organization - though its not really perfect as each book icon doesn't represent a topic, even though it is named as one, it instead has its information stored in the first sub-topic.

    I'm surprised this feature isnt added, surely it would be beneficial to others with huge documents that want a better organised view. Having to manually create it with folders is a solution, but not ideal as it wont indent topics based on heading level, unless I make a folder for each topic which isn't effective.

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    Willam van Weelden
    Willam van Weelden
    Inspiring
    September 2, 2009

    Hi,

    I'm not sure what you exactly want, but perhaps it helps that you can add this first topic of every book to the book. Select the properties of the book and check Book with link. Select the topic or placeholder you want the book to open when clicked.

    If you miss a feature, be sure to ask for it on the RoboHelp wish form. But before you ask for a feature, make sure it isn't already built in in some dark and

    hidden place.

    Greet,

    Willam

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