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Anonymous
May 28, 2009
Question

map id's not working

  • May 28, 2009
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Hi all

My map id's are not working properly.  I am getting the defintions to display properly but for some reason my books on the left side (t.o.c) do not expand and go to where the topic came from.  The left side has the books collapsed and stay on the name of the file.

Any idea what I need to do?

thanks

Caryn

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Pete_Lees
Participating Frequently
June 1, 2009

Hi, Caryn,

Can you confirm that you have set the "Auto Synchronize TOC" property for your help window? With this set, the TOC entry for the currently displayed topic should automatically be selected when the topic is opened, whether programmatically or not.

Here are some instructions on how to set the "Auto Synchronize TOC" property:


http://help.adobe.com/en_US/RoboHelp/8.0/RoboHTML/WS355AEF7F-34ED-4124-BC8F-B27DE7A228E1.html


Pete

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Anonymous
June 1, 2009

Pete

I checked and my auto synchornize t.o.c check box was not checked so i selected it.

Do I need to enter a file name in Custom image file?

I saved and generated my file.

Tested my map id's and they did not work.

I dont have to use ?what's this feature for field context sensitive help, do I?  Cant I just use IDH prefix before my field name and map these fields?

thanks

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Anonymous
June 2, 2009

Pete

No I have not done any changes to the map id's or the mapping I setup.  I did search the forum and found out I should also change the window properties in project setup pod.  I gave my window a name for the file and selected auto synchorize t.o.c check box and saved that setting.

Generated my file and went to my application and pressed F1 and the book files stil did not go to the related topic.

Any other ideas?

thanks for your help

Caryn


Cant I just use IDH prefix before my field name and map these fields?  I cant get the field level help (context sensitive help) to work.

Do the developers need to enter IDH before the map id number?  For example, IDH_1 = service date.

Do the developers enter 1 or IDH_1?

thanks

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Anonymous
June 1, 2009

Hi

I noticed no one has replied to my question.

Can anyone help me?

thanks

RoboColum_n_
RoboColum_n_
Legend
June 1, 2009

I could be wrong (I'm not a developer) but I believe this has to do with the call being made from the application. Can you confirm whether you are using CHM, WebHelp or some other output and whether you have merged help?

Read the RoboColum(n) for mutterings on RoboHelp, Technical Communication Suite and technical communication.

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Anonymous
June 1, 2009

I am selecting Microsoft html as my output and generating a .chm file.

Does that help?

thanks

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