(RH 2022 and beyond) Can I get merged HTML5 Help's Search to not search breadcrumb results?
Hello RHelpers! I have returned! It’s been a while and it’s nice to see some familiar faces still around.
RH 2022+ using merged HTML5 output.
Background
The last several I moved over to a different role in our company. I was fortunate to be able to use some other tools Paligo, then MadCap Flare, etc. So, it’s been nice to expand my knowledge. I found there are things I really liked in Flare that weren’t in RoboHelp and things I really liked in RoboHelp 2017 and some things I didn’t like in either. But anyway… layoffs happened, and I got pushed back into my old role.
Anyway, we just converted our RH 2017 content (merged HTML5 help system with parent and 15+ child helps) the last couple of weeks from RH 2017 to the latest RH...whatever it’s called now. I’ll call it RH 2022. We’re slowly dealing with the fallout from that. In whole, the conversion went well. The topics converted great etc etc. We put things back together over the last couple of weeks. Our custom screenlayout that got converted behaves differently than it did so I’ve been crafting js scripts to put filtering etc back together the way merged HTML5 output and filtering used to work.
I’m just about there.
The Problem
Onto my main problem and by extension my question. In RoboHelp 2017 if we searched a phrase within double quotes, it’d do an exact search and only search within topic text. For example, searching for “Supported CMM Interfaces” in our RH 2017 generated output would appropriately return only 2 results. Searching for that same phrase in our RH 2022 generated output within quotes returns 508 results… That’s...umm… less than ideal. After some digging, I found out RH 2022 is a little expansive in its HTML5 search results and returns results from breadcrumbs from child topics! So, suppose the exact phrase is only used in in a book title, a topic heading of a book topic, and that book has hundreds of children topics, the search returns references to all those hundreds of children! And there doesn’t appear to be a way to say, “Hey, stay away from my breadcrumbs, greedy RH 2022 Search!”
Hence My Question
Can I get the generated merged HTML5 output Help's Search to not search breadcrumb results? I looked and don’t see a setting. How do you others get around this obvious limitation?
Thank you in advance!