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Maskahl
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May 26, 2016
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Robohelp 2015 - unwanted topics are showing in Webhelp Search results

  • May 26, 2016
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People,

I am working in a project that has three separate TOCS. Some topics are only included in one of the TOCs, but are showing up in the Search results for Webhelps for the other two.

The topics ARE excluded from the TOCs used to generate the webhelps in whose Search results they appear.

The topics, and their entire content, are marked using a conditional build tag that is used to exclude them from the webhelps in whose Search results they appear.

I have thoroughly investigated to ensure that these topics  ARE NOT referenced by hyperlinks in any of the topics that do appear in the webhelps in whose Search results they appear.

I have set the Search options to Enable External Content Search = OFF and Exclude Baggage File Types from Search to all be checked.

And still these topics - that have nothing to do with the webhelps I am generating except be in the same Robohelp project - are found by the Search.

Do any of you know what I am doing wrong? Is this a RoboHelp bug?

Thanks in advance,

MAM

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    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    May 26, 2016

    The usual cause of this is when someone excludes a topic from the TOC and thinks this excludes it from the output. That only excludes the topic from appearing in the TOC.

    To exclude a topic from an output you need to do that in Project Manager.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring information

    @petergrainge

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    MaskahlAuthor
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    May 26, 2016

    Hi again Peter, and thanks for your interest.

    Focusing on one particular topic, I have tagged it in the Project Manager pod so that it and its content are
    marked with a particular conditional build tag. I have a TOC that excludes the topic, and I have a build expression that excludes the conditional build tag.


    But still the topic is found in the search in the generated webhelp.

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    May 26, 2016

    Hi there

    Perhaps examine the Topic Properties and look at the General tab and enable Search Exclusion?

    Cheers... Rick

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