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beaub2252603
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April 9, 2008
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Using bookmarks for CSH

  • April 9, 2008
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Here's the situation: I'm using RoboHelp7 to create a FlashHelp Pro project. I'm then calling the help from a webpage using the RH_ShowHelp() JavaScript function in RoboHelp_CSH.js. Everything works fine EXCEPT when using an ID linked to a bookmark in a topic. Basically it only pulls up the topic, but doesn't go down to the bookmark within the topic.

This is a complete guess, but I suspect it may have something to do with the URL being passed to the browser window, as it ends up being something like this: http://server/project.htm#topic.htm#bookmark. If I manually edit the URL to be http://server/topic.htm#bookmark the page displays the way I want it to..... so how do I get it to work with CSH?

Any help is much appreciated... thanks!
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johnmccallum
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April 14, 2008
I'm not real familiar with RH_ShowHelp() for WebHelp as I work almost exclusively with compiled help. I do know that bookmarks don't work in compiled help if you shortcut around the .ali file (using the map number in the .hh file - e.g. #define topicname.htm#bookmark map number - instead of a mapID), generating exactly what you describe.

What is the syntax of your showHelp call? What do your .hh and .ali files look like?

John
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beaub2252603Author
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April 14, 2008
Thanks for the help! You could be right, it might not even be possible to use context sensitive help to call a bookmark. However, I assumed it was since RoboHelp allows you to link a Map ID to a bookmark. In any case, information on the RH_ShowHelp() function is here.

I'm calling the function using the following parameters: RH_ShowHelp(0, 'http://server/project.htm>Window', HH_HELP_CONTEXT, 29). Map ID #29 is assigned to a bookmark in a topic, similar to this: topic.htm#bookmark.

I'm not familiar with .ali or .hh files, but here goes.... The .ali file basically lists each topic with its corresponding HTM file. I don't have a .hh file, however the .h file lists a #define for each mapped HTM file. One thing I noticed in the .h file is it looks like the # sign for the bookmark has been replaced with an underscore. So where it was topic#bookmark, it's now topic_bookmark. Not sure if that's significant....

Thanks again for you help!
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