Invoking Context Sensitive Help with a TOC

[Guest]

I have searched around the forums and it seems I may be in the wrong area with this thread that I found (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/38858) but I have been unable to find a way to get to the developer side of things.  If someone can direct me it would be great but if you have an answer even better 🙂

I have integrated WebHelp with our web application and can successfully launch context-sensitive help by itself.  When I want to display a TOC, index or search with it, it seems I can only display the default topic and not the context sensitive one.

Successful: RH_ShowHelp(0, 'help/en-us/WebHelp/Index.htm>helpWin', HH_HELP_CONTEXT, 42);

Fail: RH_ShowHelp(0, 'help/en-us/WebHelp/Index.htm>helpWin', HH_DISPLAY_TOC, 42);

I have been around the internet and found various sites that talk about how it is not possible to have a TOC show anything but the default topic and it just seems a bit off that this is not possible. I have also found sites mentioning some hacks to the javascript files but it seems that that was for older versions of RoboHelp.

I am currently using WebHelp generated by RoboHelp 8.  If anyone can help or at least direct me to a forum where I can get this question answered, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you 🙂

Matt

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[Guest]

Nope.  Will go there now!

Thanks 🙂

Matt

[Guest]

So I will semi-retract my nope and replace it with I saw part of it 🙂  I had found Tyler's article yesterday and had already heard back from him.  I had attempted the Topic ID approach with no luck and have yet been unsuccessful with some of his other suggestions.  I'm not giving up though!  🙂  If I do find an answer, I will repost it here (or a link to it).

If anyone else has any input, please add a reply!

Thanks,

Matt

[Guest]

So I did find my answer thanks to Tyler at a sub-link where you pointed me to Rick.  I was implementing it with a bit of confusion from the RH_ShowHelp.  I was using TopicID instead of TopicNumber so by changing one keyword, all was good 🙂  Also helps that Visual Studio 2010 allows javascript debugging 😉

HRef = "help/en-us/WebHelp/Index_csh.htm#TopicNumber=42,withnavpane=true"

I am, however, going to implement the TopicID way within my code when all is said and done.  It provides much better readability.

Thanks!

Matt