confused about Map IDs

[rlauriston]

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.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

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

[rlauriston]

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.

[rlauriston]

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]

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.