API to retrieve data from software for Map IDs in RoboHelp?

[She_Tried_It]

I may be posing the question wrong, but I am writing for a software development company.

REQUIREMENT:

When users are on a particular screen, they press F1 and the appropriate help topic displays. The files are created RoboHelp 2017, output as a CHUM file, which is included in the software files.

ISSUE:

However, I have a need to know the IDs of the screen, boxes, windows, pages, etc. so that I can add new help files for new screens or remove help files for screens that no longer exist or have a name change.

• In my previous experience, I've been doing this manually where I send a .h file with the map files or I receive the screen names from the developers.
• I am now finding that the last person in this position used a type of API to query the software and return the necessary information and perform the mapping - and did not need to get the information from the developers for manual entry.

QUESTION: Does anyone know know of such an API - preferably an industry standard solution that is safe and solid - like Microsoft and not a Billy Bud in the Basement beta/opensource type product. And can you provide a basic explanation of how it works to mine for screen name data in software.

Many thanks!