Relative addressing in WebHelp (9 or 10)

Question

I have an area on our website that is a repository of a number of pdf files. I would like to be able to open these files from links within separate WebHelp projects.

I can do this by using an absolute reference to the location of the files from within the projects but would prefer to use relative addressing

A simplified structure is

www.mysite.com/pdf for the repository of the pdf files

and

www.mysite.com/project for the location of a project file.

If I use a link in the project containing an absolute reference of the form www.mysite.com/pdf/file.pdf that will work properly

If I attempt to specify the link as ../pdf/file.pdf, it will not work and ends up as www.mysite.com/project/pdf/file.pdf.

Am I using the wrong syntax, or is this just not supported?

Thanks

Captiv8r · Accepted Answer

The issue is the relative path. I can't find a syntax that works.

I select the text, insert hyperlink, link to: web address. Then at that point the web address I enter seems to work only as an absolute address - www.mysite.com/pdf/file.pdf in my example.

Hi David

Earlier you said that if you used ../pdf/file.pdf it failed and ended up as www.mysite.com/project/pdf/file.pdf.

Have you tried using ../../pdf/file.pdf? Given your situation and what you are seeing, that's what I would try.

Cheers... Rick

Peter Grainge · Answer

RoboHelp HTML or RoboHelp for Word?See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips @petergrainge

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