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June 13, 2007
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Including parent and sibling TOC in all merged project sub-projects

  • June 13, 2007
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I have a HTMLHelp merged project (A) that has two sub-projects (B & C). When I open the main project help, the TOC correctly lists all of the books and pages in it as well as the two child projects and I can navigate among them and do searches among all of the pages in all three of the projects. If, on the other hand, an F1 calls a page in one of the sub-projects, the TOC just lists the books and pages in the sub-project...it does not realize that it is a child so there is no reference to the parent or the other sibling. (e.g. a call to a page in B shows the html help for the page, but the TOC contains no books or pages for A or C). Is there a way for all of the child projects to have the exact same TOC as the Master project even if they are called directly from my application? Alternatively, is there a different way that my developers should call the Help such that they go through the parent every time rather than directly to the respective child project?
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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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June 13, 2007
No. They just apply to WebHelp. Someone else will need to come in for compiled HTML Help.

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Anonymous
June 13, 2007
Check this thread sounds like the same problem with resolution.

Hope this helps,

Brian
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June 13, 2007
The thread is on the right track (although I have no problem with the child TOC not showing up).

It looks like the post from Pete Lees with the sample code is what I need to ultimately get to. You can see in his attached code for the child (MADE.hpp) the [WINDOWS] entry is $global_Parent=Parent,"Parent.chm::/parent.hhc", "child.hhk",...

But, how do I get the [WINDOWS] entry in my child.hhp file to be the parent and the .hhc entry to reference the parent chm::/parent.hhc? Is it a matter of editing the file, or do I need to change some settings before recompiling?
Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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June 13, 2007
Welcome to the forum.

See the topics on my site about Merged Webhelp and Calling Webhelp.

You need to call the help using the method:

parentstartpage.htm#mergedProjects/path/targettopic.htm.

Then the child topic will open with the tripane.

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June 13, 2007
And this applies to Microsoft HTML Help projects as well as Webhelp?
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