Close open books when a new book is openend

[Guest]

Is there a way to make a webhelp close all open books when the user opens a new book? The goal would be that the TOC only displays the path to the currently viewed topic. Currently, all book stay open until manually closed.

Perhaps this was already covered in a thread - please excuse in case I overlooked it.

[Captiv8r]

Hi robert-sfl

Unfortunately that is not a feature of WebHelp. There is only one way I'm aware of to collapse all books. Restart WebHelp.

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Cheers... Rick

[Guest]

I just found out how to do it! Thanks for the idea of restarting the webhelp.

Solution: in the whtdata0.xml file that contains the TOC data, I replaced all item url paths to redirect over the start page of the webhelp.

Example:

Original path: url="topic.htm"
New path: url="index.htm#topic.htm" target="_top"

The catch is that this can be replaced with an enhanced find&replace tool without manual work.

The disadvantage: book urls cannot be redirected because this causes the webhelp script to crash. Only item entires can be redirected this way.