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Automatically select a content category

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
December 7, 2012
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Dear community,

Is it possible to select a content category depending on the parameter in the URL.

For example.

I have categories (different content) for resellers and distributors.

Depending on the page where user clicks "help" a content for either reseller or distributor should be shown.

http://domain.com/help.html?referer_page=/reseller.html => show reseller's content category

http://domain.com/help.html?referer_page=/distributor.html => show distributor's content category

Link format can be changed if necessary.

Is this possible to configure? May be in Rh 10?

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Willam van Weelden

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Hi,

The Context Senstive API supports selecting the content category. You can use the default RoboHelp API or if you want to use URL’s, see my article: http://www.wvanweelden.eu/articles/part/regular-start-page

Greet,

Willam

Yaroslaf4ikAuthor

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Willam, RoboColum, Thank you for refering me to the right direction. I've 3 options for myself. BTW, are there any possibilities or plans to pass information fo the selected object to a help script? What I mean is this:

Mouse hover sets the Help topic to display when the control has been hovered over.

Or when I want to see help on field "A" I select it with a mouse and click help. Help opens on the description of the "A" field. Is there something like this in Robohelp?

Thanx!

Willam van Weelden

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Hi,

- For the hover, there is no default method. I imagine your developers create a hovering element and call the help in that element. I think there are two choices: using an iFrame or publishing the help to simple HTML and calling the content directly from the .htm using AJAX.

- The second thing can be done with RoboHelp. John Daigle shows how in this tutorial: http://www.adobe.com/devnet-archive/robohelp/articles/context_help.html

Greet,

Willam

RoboColum_n_

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If the location where the user clicks help is different depending on whether they are a reseller or distributor, then you should be able to do this with context sensitive help. I haven't tested this but if you add a mapid to the topics in the two categories and then specify this in the call you can do as you describe. If however the dialog is the same, mapids would not work.

Yaroslaf4ikAuthor

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I have found a work around:

Due to specific folder structure of a generated content

container - reseller/

| - distributor/

I can just adjust the path in the link and open the index HTML files in different folders.

But still, can I pass any parameters to Robohelp?

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