RH 6 Index Question

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Good morning!
I'm creating an index in RoboHelp 6. I've created indexes in FrameMaker and Word, but this is a first for me in RoboHelp. Certainly there are general principles for a good index that apply regardless of the tool.

Are any best practices, pitfalls, and/or limitations associated with RoboHelp?

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Veronica

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HKabaker

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Howerver, the Index Wizard needs to go back to Hogwarts.
If you let it add keywords, don't use the "automatically add" feature.

Harvey

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V JordanAuthor

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Thanks for the tip Tom.
Does this mean where I've entered subkeywords with a comma that I should redo those with the backslash?

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only if you have multiple subkeywords for the keywords you've used commas with. in other words, if your index says dogs,hounds and dogs, yorkshire, your index won't stack the subkeywords under dogs unless you go back and enter them as dogs\hounds and dogs\yorkshire. but if you don't want to put subkeywords under a main keywords, use commas. generate the help and see.

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V JordanAuthor

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I generated the FlashHelp and the subkeywords stack under the main keywords as they should. However, when I generated the printed documentation (which included the index and glossary), the index and glossary do not show up.
Previously, I've generated the glossary for print (to be reviewed) and had no problems. Other than including the index and glossary as sections to be generated, is there some other trick to generate these in print?

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There is one pitfall: if you output to print, RoboHelp groups all the index words with your topic's title. So if your topic spans 5 pages, your keywords for all 5 of those pages will be stacked where the title appears.

Here's a tip: To make subkeywords as you enter index words, type a backslash, like this:

dogs\hounds

When you enter another word combo, like this:

dogs\yorkshire

the index will automatically put both subkeywords under "dogs."

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