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Anonymous
April 30, 2010
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Can I turn off the TOC ?

  • April 30, 2010
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I am using RH 8, Windows 7 and generating WebHelp

I have a merged project. I have 4 child rpojects and 1 parent. Can I turn off the TOC on the parent and only see it on the child projects?

I have already unchecked all of the options in all of the windows when I generate and that didn't help.

thanks.

Pat

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Correct answer Peter Grainge

Hi all

Call me silly here, but why isn't this as simple as creating a single HTML page with links that point to the projects? If you want to use RoboHelp to create the page, go for it. Just turn off the "Show navigation pane link in topics" and generate. Then pluck out the single page and use it. Otherwise, just create a page in Dreamweaver or Notepad or any other editor to link to the projects.

Cheers... Rick

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My reply and Ricks' give you alternative ways.

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April 30, 2010

Egh?

You want all the child TOCs to show in the merge but not the parent TOC? Yes it can be done but I am not sure I understand what you want and would like to clarify that first.

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Anonymous
April 30, 2010

What we want is for the first page of the help to display without a TOC. This would be my parent project and only contains links to the child projects. All of the child projects display in separate windows with their own toc, which is fine. We just don't want it on the first page.

I hope that makes sense.

Pat

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Anonymous
April 30, 2010

Well I understand but that's not merged help and removes all the benefits.

You are opening just one child in the new window so the search and index will be just for that child. Is that really what you want?

It seems you have gone to all the trouble of setting up a merge and then you are not using it. You just want a launch pad for four projects.

You could have one project with the one topic with the links and set that up not to have a TOC, index or search. Should open with just the topic. Post back if not. The links would open the other projects and depending on your link

  • Open it in a new window but that would leave the user having to close two windows, or five if they click on all four links.
  • Open it in the same window. Then you have to consider how to get back to the first topic with the links.

Whatever way you look at it, what you are not serving up is merged help. I guess you have a reason for not opening the project with the TOCs of all the child projects and search and index working across all of them.

Sorry but what I don't get is why create merged help and than not use it.

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@petergrainge


Yes, we do want to have the first topic with no index, toc, or search.

How can we do that.

Pat

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