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Anonymous
August 12, 2010
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Redirect to a specific topic based on topic references in application

  • August 12, 2010
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Life is full of challenges...

I am building online help to be deployed with the Orion version of MicroStrategy (MSTR).

We replace the MSTR help with our own specific to the applications we have built.

We have customized the out of the box MSTR GUI and I build a replacement help with our own content.

Within the GUI, MSTR has (?) links that direct to a specific help.

In versions prior to their newest Orion (V9.x) - they had about 10 topics.

This was easy enough to deal with, I just duplicated these topics and used as a starting point to discuss the functionality.

Now, in Orion, they have a mutlitude of new topics and it may get unweildy to find and replicate them all.

Additionally, they have parsed out the content for one dialog window in to 3-4 topics. Not ideal for how we do help.

I can get a list of HTM topic file names and replicate them.

OR

I was hoping that I could list these topics by their HTM file name somewhere within the project and redirect to one topic.

Is that possible within a RoboHelp project?

I am using RoboHelp x8 and building WebHelp.

Thanks --

Michael F Weart

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    You can create a blank topic, with this added inside the HEAD section:

    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=path/file_name.htm" />

    The blank topic can be linked to from another topic, TOC, etc. The content="0 indicates a zero display in launching the target file.

    If you'd prefer to add a "Loading the file you requested" type of text instead, just change that zero to a manageable number in milliseconds to allow users to comfortably read your sparkling prose.

    Good luck,

    Leon

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    Inspiring
    August 12, 2010

    You can create a blank topic, with this added inside the HEAD section:

    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=path/file_name.htm" />

    The blank topic can be linked to from another topic, TOC, etc. The content="0 indicates a zero display in launching the target file.

    If you'd prefer to add a "Loading the file you requested" type of text instead, just change that zero to a manageable number in milliseconds to allow users to comfortably read your sparkling prose.

    Good luck,

    Leon

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    Anonymous
    August 12, 2010

    The redirect code worked like a charm.

    I assume the "dummy" topic and the "target" topic have to be in the same folder (i.e., there was no virtual path designation ../..).

    That is not a problem.

    Now I have to deploy it in the app to see if it works there (which I am pretty sure it will).

    What this solution has basically done is allowed me to combine 35 topics into one for actual content that provides a jumping off point.

    I still have to create the 35 topics but they are hidden from TOC, turned Search off for these and they have no index entries.

    THANK YOU SO MUCH

    (I did remember seeing some information on redirect in the Merged Projects collateral I found from the Adobe Developer Center but did not equate it to my current issue).

    This forum and the community of people here really rock !!!

    Thanks again --

    Michael F Weart

    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    August 13, 2010

    The topic with the redirect and the target do not have to be in the same folder. If they are not, then the redirect will require the relative path from where it is to where the target is.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

    @petergrainge

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