Script for adding all topics to a single browse sequence

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November 8, 2012
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Hi all, has anybody perchance written a script that inserts all topics into a single browse sequence? This would be similar to the 'auto-create from TOC'-function but using a single long sequence instead of separate ones for each chapter.

Most of our users think that the concept of browse sequences is confusing in Webhelp. They just want simple 'forward' and 'backward' buttons that jump through the TOC.

Robert

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Captiv8r

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Hi Robert

There's no need for a script. Just use the auto-create. Then type 0 (zero) for the level.

Cheers... Rick

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Anonymous

..even though the topics are added in a strange manner.

First the BRS jumps through the topics assigned to the top level books

(Chapter 1, Chapter 2 etc.). Then at the end it continues at the start

again and jumps through the topics in the individual chapters. Well,

I'll come up with a feature name that imlpies it was planned that way.

Peter Grainge

Community Expert

Hi Rick,

thanks for the idea! But using CTRL+A to drag all topics from the topic

list will not provide a useful order it seems.

I agree that this would be a 1 minute action but having a browse

sequence that contains all topics in alphabetical order would not be a

solution in this case. And manually correkting the order of the topics

in the BRS is out of question - this is intended as a process for many

(and large) documents.

Robert

Are your topic folders roughly the same as your TOC books? If they are you can filter the Topic List by folder and then drag just the contents of that folder across. Sure it is going to need some resorting but it is a one off, updates apart.

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