Project View as tree menu?

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August 28, 2009
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Just wondering if the project view for my very large document can display as a tree style menu in RH itself when I'm working with it?

I just imported the doc, 500 pages, loads of topics at H1, 2, 3 and each heading level paginated so I have a seperate topic for each, but I would like them to indent under each other, similar to how Windows Explorer indents folders within folder. Can this be done? surely, just to make it easier to view my whole project and arrange things neatly.

Thanks.

nick

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Anonymous

I think you have to have folders to get indented levels in the Project tree. You can add them manually (right-click on the top-level folder, New..., Folder) and drag topics into them. Do it in RoboHelp, not Windows Explorer - that way, RH creates the Explorer folders automatically. It doesn't work the other way around.

I haven't imported a big Word doc, so I don't know if there's a way to automate folder creation during Word conversion. I'm pretty sure you can't automate folder creation after Word conversion.

HTH,

Elisa

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Nick27Author

Inspiring

thanks for that.

disappointed. makes having to look through 1000 topics really difficult, and to get an idea of how the help file will look even harder. I saw the contents page displays how I want the menu to display, so perhaps I will work from that to get my tree menu organization - though its not really perfect as each book icon doesn't represent a topic, even though it is named as one, it instead has its information stored in the first sub-topic.

I'm surprised this feature isnt added, surely it would be beneficial to others with huge documents that want a better organised view. Having to manually create it with folders is a solution, but not ideal as it wont indent topics based on heading level, unless I make a folder for each topic which isn't effective.

Captiv8r

Legend

There is a TOC in the doc, automatically created. But how can this help?

Won't I still be facing the same problem. I cant arrange topics and 'sub-topics' based on the TOC in the project view, the only way seems to be by using folders, that have to be manually created.

Hi there

If RoboHelp created a TOC that mimicked your Word document, you could edit topics (or the one superhumongous topic, depending on what you got when you imported) by using the TOC structure to double-click and edit topics.

Cheers... Rick