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NMoriarty
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January 17, 2011
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Searching Online Help and PDFs

  • January 17, 2011
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Hi,

I generate an online help system from RoboHelp 8 which also contains PDFs of some User Guides. Ideally I would like the user to be able to search for information in both the HTML pages and the PDFs (written and compiled using FrameMaker 9). Is there any way this is possible?

Thanks

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    Correct answer Peter Grainge

    Unless you are publishing to a server with RoboHelp Server installed, you should be generating WebHelp, not WebHelp Pro.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

    @petergrainge


    On "hat" and "that" - turn off substring searching.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

    @petergrainge

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    NMoriartyAuthor
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    February 2, 2011

    To cofirm the solution:

    If you have added PDFs to the TOC (which RoboHelp happily lets you do) then these are excluded from the search (even if you also have a hyperlink to them in a topic).

    You are also unable to delete them from the list of baggage files (the delete option is greyed out)

    Putting PDFs in the TOC is not recommended as it does weird stuff to the databases!

    RoboColum_n_
    RoboColum_n_
    Legend
    January 17, 2011

    You can do this with RH8 but only using the WebHelp Pro or FlashHelp Pro output options and publishing the output to the RoboHelp Server.

      The RoboColum(n)   @robocolumn   Colum McAndrew
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    NMoriartyAuthor
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    January 17, 2011

    I don't use RoboHelp Server so will have to investigate this

    Thanks

    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    January 17, 2011

    I thought that if the topics have a link to the PDF and the PDF is in baggage files, then a webhelp search would find it without needing RoboHelp Server. Try it.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

    @petergrainge

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