merging projects: the saga continues...

[Guest]

Well, I've successfully merged a new RoboHelp project into a larger, pre-existing one. However, another snag: If I enter Shift-F1 on a screen to get to the appropriate help topic, the topic page appears, but the table of contents that appears is the one for the merged project; we need the entire ToC to show. Any suggestions?

Thanx!
Lon

[Peter Grainge]

That problem is described in my topic on Merged Webhelp. You are calling a topic in a child project without referencing the start page of the parent project.

The formula is something like

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

[Pete_Lees]

Lon,

If this is merged HTML Help (.chm), as some of your earlier posts indicate, then this is known issue with two possible workarounds:

1) Pass the context calls directly to the slave help files, bypassing the master and using "Solution #3" in the following article to present the user with a unified help system.

http://helpware.net/htmlhelp/how_to_merge.htm#ContextHelpIDs

2) Channel all the context calls through the master help file, as described in the following article.

http://helpware.net/htmlhelp/how_to_merge_ctx2.htm

Both are rather kludgy workarounds, but they work well when all the project settings are correctly specified.

Pete

[Guest]

Peter G.,

I went to your website and tried to go into Merged Webhelp, but got "Internet Explorer cannot display this web page."

Lon

[RoboColum_n_]

Hi Lon. Peter's website is all up and running so try again.