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Associating Content to a Folder

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July 14, 2011
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RoboHelp 9.0.0.228/Server 9

WebHelp Pro

Single Project (upgraded from RH x5 to RH9)

Is it possible to attach content at the folder level? I would like content (or a topic) to display when an end-user clicks on a folder from the Table of Contents. The idea is to provide an introduction/explaination of the topics contained in that folder in greater detail than what is revealed by the folder's title.

Eva

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Correct answer Captiv8r

Hi Eva

Based on what you have stated it would seem you are maybe using Folders instead of Books and Pages in your Table of Contents? If so, you just right-click the Book in the TOC editor and choose to associate a topic to the book by clicking the check box.

Cheers... Rick

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If you have a parent/child project, and your folder needs to link to a topic in a different child project, you need to hard code it to the published file. In other words, you have to right click that topic on the TOC in the published project to obtain and copy the url. Then paste it into your "Book with Link > Link To" field. At the present time there is no way to link to other projects within Robohelp.

Captiv8r

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Hi Mareen

I hate to be disagreeable here, but I have to disagree.

I've accomplished a great many things with RoboHelp that others have claimed or though was impossible for the tool to achieve. You just have to have a good working knowledge of the technolgy and be willing to think creatively.

There are a couple of different ways I can think of to achieve that behavior.

First, as long as you know the ultimate relative pathing to the desired topic, it should accept it, no?

Second, one could easily create a topic in the source project that has been configured to redirect to the appropriate topic in the child. Then link to that topic from the master TOC.

Cheers... Rick

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"How do you code hyperlinks within a topic between two child projects?"

Ensure that the other project is on your machine in an equal position to the active project (both under the "projects" folder, for instance). Select the string and Insert Hyperlink.
In the Hyperlink window, click the Link to dropdown arrow, and select File.
Go to the folder and file you want, and click OK. Note that RH will not show a relative path (file://C:/projects/other_project/other_topic.htm).
However, just accept what's there, and RH will magically change it once you've left the window (I guess it's just too shy to do it while you watch). You'll then have links like this: "../other_project/other-topic.htm".

Good luck,
Leon

Thanks! I began to test it, then noticed it was copying the .htm file into the project. That means that the link will display a "frozen" topic from within the project. Any changes to the link-to topic won't display unless I repeat the process each time I make any changes to the target.

It's really easy to right click and copy a url from the Properties dialog - and if the link doesn't change, the topic you view will always be current. Thank you though!

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HI Eva,

Yes it is definitely possible to associate topics to Folder in the project manager after it comes as a book in TOC (by Auto create TOC or dragging the folders in the TOC pane).

The process will be to keep such explaining topics out of the TOC and later in the books generated for Folders in TOC should be converted to "book with Link" as shown by RIck and then the links these books with the topics that explain them.

Hope this will help
Ashish

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Legend

Hi Eva

Based on what you have stated it would seem you are maybe using Folders instead of Books and Pages in your Table of Contents? If so, you just right-click the Book in the TOC editor and choose to associate a topic to the book by clicking the check box.

Cheers... Rick

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