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June 8, 2010
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Why can't we link to bookmarks in merged files?

  • June 8, 2010
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We have 11 projects that are merged. We want to link to specific topics and bookmarks in the files. When we click the Hyperlink icon we can select from the files in the Select destination file dropdown but it only has the files for the project we are currently working in.

If we click Link to, we can only access the files and not the bookmarks. How can we link to the bookmarks.

thanks.

Pat

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    Hi Pat.

    You'll have to manually add "#bookmarkname" to the end of the link syntax (e.g. filename.htm#bookmarkname). Note that bookmark syntax is case sensitive. BTW if you want to see the ability to link to bookmarks added to a future release, can I urge you to add a feature request.


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    Legend
    June 8, 2010

    Hi Pat.

    You'll have to manually add "#bookmarkname" to the end of the link syntax (e.g. filename.htm#bookmarkname). Note that bookmark syntax is case sensitive. BTW if you want to see the ability to link to bookmarks added to a future release, can I urge you to add a feature request.


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    Anonymous
    June 8, 2010

    There are 2 of us working on files and we thought we could do this and thought we had done it once.

    Can we keep the .xpj files in separate folders somehow and link between the folders?

    I'm not looking forward to doing this manually.

    Thanks.

    Pat

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    June 9, 2010

    The issue is that the bookmark name is only held inside the individual .HTM files. The HHP file does have a list of the topic files but not the bookmarks used inside them. There is no easy way around this. Even if you share your output to a shared area and link to that you need to know the bookmark name. If you output WebHelp you could interrogate the source of the HTML to get this but with CHMs that is more difficult.


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