Remove index from Microsoft HTML Help Robohelp 2019

[kajsaros1]

Hi,

Does anybody know if it's possible to remove only the "Index"-button in Microsoft HTML Help in Robohelp 2019?

With the new interface "TOC & Index" is put together in the Window-settings, so if I leave the box blank both of them disappears. Is there a way to delete "index" only?

Thankful for all the help I can get!

BR,

Kajsa

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Highly doubtful - if killing off the index file (.hhk) doesn't do it, I'm not sure what would (it's such old technology now)

[Peter Grainge]

TOC and Index were combined in Classic versions.

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[Captiv8r]

Hi there

I just tested this in 2017 as well as 2019 and 2019 Classic.

I would personally call this a BUG in 2019. Because in 2017 and 2019 Classic (and presumably in other earlier versions) as long as there were no entries in the Index file, RoboHelp produced a CHM file with no Index tab.

Because of this, I think it should be reported to Adobe as a bug.

Cheers... Rick 🙂

[Captiv8r]

Oh, and if there were no entries in the TOC, it would be absent in the compiled CHM as well.

[Peter Grainge]

OK but that's a different thing. The post was about the two being a combined check box. I agree that if the underlying behaviour is different in 2019 it should be reported as a bug.

Please follow this link to report bugs or request features. https://tracker.adobe.com

Post the link to your bug report / feature request in this thread and others can vote for it. The more people who do so, the higher it gets prioritised.

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[Captiv8r]

If you really need that Index tab to perform a disappearing act, I'm going to suggest you decompile the CHM and create a new project in the 2019 Classic version and add the content in. Then recompile and you should have what you want.

Oh, and this thread actually seems to reveal a secondary bug related to the Index in 2019. In earlier versions you had an option to choose between a Binary or Non-Binary Index. I was unable to find anywhere in the new beast to configure that.

[kajsaros1]

My question is if there's a way to remove the Index-tab (so not the button, as I wrote before) in the compiled output. Just to clarify.

Cheers, 

Kajsa  

[Peter Grainge]

Yes we understand what you want. The issue is that 2019 is not behaving in the way that Classic did so a bug report is needed.

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[kajsaros1]

Alright then 🙂

Thanks,

K.

[raos_powel]

Was this ever reported as a bug? I searched for it, but could not find anything. I need the same functionality in my projects for HTML help.

[Peter Grainge]

I am hopeful it will be fixed in the next update which should be in the next month or so.

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[kajsaros1]

I'm having issues with reporting bugs, the website only replies with Error...

/K.

[Peter Grainge]

You haven't indicated how you are trying to access the bug reporting page. Try this link.

Please follow this link to report bugs or request features. https://tracker.adobe.com

If this issue is what you are trying to report, it's already reported and being worked on.

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[kajsaros1]

Yes, that's the link I used (and tried now again as well, but still doesn't works).

No I suposed this issue was already reported.

[Peter Grainge]

The problem must be at your end as I just tried the link from here and it is working as expected.

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[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Try using a different browser - that Tracker site seems to be sensitive to certain browsers (now, of course, I can't recall which ones).

[kajsaros1]

Thank you, I'll try another browser if I need to report a bug next time 🙂