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March 30, 2011
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Displaying Search Results from only one Topic

  • March 30, 2011
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I am using RH8.02, generating output in Webhelp.  Our help system has multiple projects of only one topic each.  When I use the search function in any particular one, only one result comes up... the lone topic in that project.  Is there a way for RoboHelp to display multiple search results from the same topic?  If, for example, I search for "Event Costs" the search will tell me that it found two results (Event and Cost) in one topic, even though that phrase is used many times in that topic.  How can I get it to display all of the places that phrase is used without having to scroll through the entire topic?

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Captiv8r
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March 30, 2011

Welcome to our community

That's not really the way RoboHelp works. Normally you have hundreds or thousands of different topics. Each topic holding a specific nugget of information that is part of the larger whole. Search would then return topics of interest.

Why do you have many projects with each project consisting of a single topic?

Cheers... Rick

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TokaneseAuthor
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March 30, 2011

When I took over the documentation, my IT guys wanted a separate help file for each module of our software.  I think it makes it easier for them to manage a context-sensitive help feature that we have.  Originally, the help system was a conglomeration of all individual topics (this is still used at our main web portal), but that wasn't sufficient.

Captiv8r
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March 30, 2011

Sorry, but you probably won't be able to accomplish your goal then.

Even if you split things up into many topics, RoboHelp will not list all the different places a term is used inside any given topic. RoboHelp 8 does allow highlighting of search terms in web based otuputs. Have you tried that option? Perhaps it would help.

Cheers... Rick

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