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adrianaharper
adrianaharper
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November 24, 2009
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SEARCH results - shows file name. Can I change this?

  • November 24, 2009
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I am using TCS2 in Windows XP.

In Robohelp when you search the online help, it brings back the search results but they are displayed under the filename heading. Can I change that? I don't necessarily want my filename displayed to users... maybe the Chapter name?

TIA

-Adriana

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dsarig
Inspiring
November 25, 2009

The search results show the topic title. It sounds like your file name and toipc name are the same. To change the topic name, open the Topic properties and click the General tab. The first field there is "Topic Title".

adrianaharper
adrianaharperAuthor
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February 22, 2010

If I'm understanding correctly- changing the Topic Title will also change all the references, xreferences, etc... which need to be manually updated in RH. Is this correct?

adrianaharper
adrianaharperAuthor
Known Participant
March 31, 2010

Hi--

I have no solution yet but am having very  much the same problem, and would like to get in on this conversation while I continue experimenting. I'm working TCS2 (Frame 9 and Robo 8), linking the Frame book to Robo to create CSH. I'm a long-time Framer but a newbie to Robo and TCS2.

As far as I can tell from reading through the thread, I've got some kind of variation going: some of my CSH Search results show the heading, and some show the filename. I haven't yet discovered what is the difference in the Frame file, although I believe that's where I'll find it. It's consistent from search to search. (That is, if it a topic shows up in Search results as the filename once, it does so consistently. Ditto others showing up as the heading.)

In addition to hereby signaling moral support (!) and an interest in a solution, I'd like to provide my settings here and see how yours compare.

The marker I created to manage output CSH filenames is "FileName." I'm working with engineers who are not native English speakers and have never implemented  CSH. For the 30 or so (out of 75) topics that actually are going to be  linked from the application, I created FileName  marker text that starts with "LinkTo_<menupath>." (Example:  "LinkTo_WebSecurity_ServerSecurityGroups_Adding.") The idea is to help  them see what to link up where. (It also made editing map IDs faster: I just select and automap any topic name  starting with LinkTo_.)

So I'm getting Search results that look like this:

Things to know about xyz
text text text...

LinkTo_Statistics_Events
text text text...

My "File > Project Settings > Edit  conversion settings... > Other" settings are:

Context Sensitive Help Marker: blank
Topic Name Pattern: grayed out but is "(Default)"
Topic Name Marker:  FileName

Not sure this is optimum. (As I said, a Robo newbie.) Also, my chapter titles and H1 thru H3 are set up to paginate, although I  realized later that filling Topic Name Marker field disables pagination.

Thanks, will keep working on it --

Anne


I'm not dealing with CSH issues- I'm dealing with the SEARCH box within the help system itself, when it brings back results, shows the results located in the chapters but instead of showing the chapters it shows me the FM filename of the book. The results show up as:

LinkTo_Statistics_Events
text text text...

I'm not sure that is has anything to do with the  "File > Project Settings > Edit  conversion settings... > Other"  -- I am also relatively new to RH and still working out the kinks (or trying to, anyways).

From what I understood from previous posts (and I may have misunderstood) there could be two things:

1-Setting the RH topic title. But that seems to be a manual project and I have quite a lot of topics, I also don't seem to have the access to do so (it is greyed out when I try to change it within the linked RH project)... it also seems to need to be redone evertime I update from FM due to the single-source updating issue. And if that means updating cross-references, index markers, etc. etc... well... :-(

2-Setting in my filename in FM- and no one in the FM list responded so I think it's possible I'm out to lunch. Or I need to rename all my FM filenames (since that is how RH is creating my topic title) and I cannot do that.

At any rate, I'm still having this issue and have no idea what to do about it.

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