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rlauriston
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January 30, 2013
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confused about Map IDs

  • January 30, 2013
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TCS 3.5, source in FrameMaker 10, linked to RoboHelp 9 to generate WebHelp.

I have a large inherited project that somebody long ago set up to use RoboHelp-generated TOC anchors (e.g. TOC_Introduction) for context-sensitive help calls.

I want to create TopicAlias markers in the FrameMaker source and use standard help calls. However, when I look at the existing RoboHelp project, the Map ID file has over a thousand entries, apparently one for every topic in the TOC. Where could those be coming from? I can't find a setting that would generate them.

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rlauristonAuthor
Inspiring
January 31, 2013

Do RoboHelp CSH calls always point to the top of a file rather than to an anchor at the position of the TopicAlias marker?

So I need to split the topics to get it to work right?

Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 31, 2013

I'm not sure because all my FM markers are attached to the ends of my Heading1 para tags that end up being split into topics at that point; so they end up at the top anyway. I would expect it to work if you had one buried down in the body of a topic, but I could be wrong.

Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 30, 2013

Check the Conversion settings - did they use a FM marker ?

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rlauristonAuthor
Inspiring
January 30, 2013

Conversion Settings > Other Settings > Context Sensitive Help Marker is set to TopicAlias.

I deleted the old header file and the old map IDs went away.

There's one TopicAlias marker in the source book, the text is UsingtheExecutiveSummaryPage.

RoboHelp is creating a map ID for it, but in the UI it shows as Policy (the name of the chapter document) with a map number 1, even though the options are set to Make Uppercase and Start numbering with 10000.

In the WebHelp output the anchor is CSH_1.

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