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NGcch
NGcch
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August 26, 2016
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webhelp: Cannot redirect book after click hyperlink

  • August 26, 2016
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Dear,

I was using RoboHelp 8.0 for our help file compiling, in the past time, I was using HTML Help for all my applcations. Now I want to create a WebHelp for my apllication, I got a problem while browse the help contents. Here is my problem, in contents, there are many books in there, when I select one page in book "Get Started" and then click a hyperlink in this page, it should go to the page "Creating a blank system" under the book "Creating a System' and it go there indeed, my problem here is that the left pannel the contents, there is no change, it still stay in "Get Started" book, it cannot redirect to book "Creating a System' ->"Creating a blank system". would you please guide me how to fix it, this is very important for me I think.

I need to let you know this works well for HTML help(.chm).

thanks for your help,

NgCC

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    Correct answer Peter Grainge

    My shot was from RoboHelp 2015 but the same checkbox is in the RoboHelp 8 equivalent when you generate an output. If that is ticked, then it's likely as Rick suggests. Maybe it's not the same in all browsers.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring information

    @petergrainge

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    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 26, 2016

    I suspect you need to tick the check box shown below and/or set it to Automatically when you generate the help.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring information

    @petergrainge

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    NGcch
    NGcchAuthor
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    August 26, 2016

    Thanks a lot for your reply, Peter

    I believe I ticked the synchronize table of contents while generate the help.but still does not work. I would like to attach my project here but have not found a way to do that.

    By the way, my version is 8.0, I really have not found the screen you showed above, I only can select while generate the help.

    thanks,

    Ngcc

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    August 26, 2016

    Hi there

    As you are using version 8, it's quite likely that the output simply cannot deal with modern browsers and that's causing the issue you are seeing.

    Perhaps try downloading the most recent RoboHelp and testing a backup copy of your project using that. If that fixes the issue, the answer is that you will need to upgrade your RoboHelp version so the output works with today's browsers.

    Click here if you need help making a backup copy

    Cheers... Rick

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