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Anonymous
January 30, 2014
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Robohelp Server - URL Invoke with Topic Id/Map Id

  • January 30, 2014
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Hi All,

A Webhelp Pro project is deployed to the Robohelp Server.

I would like to know. invoking the Robohelp server for contextive sensitive help using Topic Id or Map Id.

The reason being, the Robohelp is being created for an already existing application for which internal Page Indentifers exists. These page identifiers are used as Map Id/Topic Id in Robohelp. So it would be easy to invoke a CSH with Mapid.

Thanks,

sdesab.

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RoboColum_n_
RoboColum_n_
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January 31, 2014

Hi sdesab.

Did you not get John's post in the other thread? Perhaps we are not understanding your requirement as his response seemed to answer it. There are two elements to a map file:

  • Alias: This can be anything so could use the internal page identifiers.
  • Mapid: This is a number used by the application to call the alias that identifies the page to display.
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Anonymous
January 31, 2014

Hi,

Thank you for looking into this.

Let me reframe my question,

If the Map File looks like this,

#define MainPage_H2
#define PointMainPage_H3

Instead of calling the CSH on Robohelp Server as below,

http://localhost:8080/robohelp/server?prj=HumanResources&area=general& wnd=CSHWindow&ctxid=2

I would like to call the CSH as below

http://localhost:8080/robohelp/server?prj=HumanResources&area=general& wnd=CSHWindow&ctxid=MainPage_H

The reason being the Alias name(MainPage_H)  is the Page Identifier in my existing application, the same being used as the Alias in Robohelp.

Please let me know if my approach is incorrect or cannot be done this way.

Please suggest me or point me the right way of doing it.

Thanks,

sdesab.

RoboColum_n_
RoboColum_n_
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January 31, 2014

No you can't do that. The mapid has to be a number.

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