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TOC Question

  • September 4, 2008
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In my TOC I have a number of topics that are common to all books in the TOC; for example an orientation topic. When the common topic is clicked on in one book it opens the page correctly, but it also opens the first book in the TOC that has a link to that page and places the user in that book instead of the one they were in. It doesn't open any book with that topic page between the first occurrence and the book the user is in. I created the TOC by dragging and dropping the topics into the TOC books.

I am using RH7 and IE 6.0

Thanks for any help
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    RoboColum_n_
    RoboColum_n_
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    September 5, 2008
    Hi Pat@ffic. Are you creating Webhelp output? Knowing will help us answer although I suspect that this behaviour is the norm for multiple TOC entries.

    BTW I question your appraoch to having a shared topic in multiple books. Could you not just have a topic once at the top of the TOC in a "Orientation" book or something?
    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    September 5, 2008
    Hi all

    @Pat - What you want could be achieved by using redirect topics. Basically you create multiple HTML pages that function as redirect pages. Then link the TOC nodes to them. The key is to only have the redirect topics in the TOC and never link directly to the topic in question.

    Cheers... Rick
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    Anonymous
    September 5, 2008
    Captiv8r - Thank you. I think I understand what you are saying although I'm not sure how to pull it off. Do I create a different redirect page for each book? I have done redirects in HTML using Dreamweaver, but not RH. Can I create the redirect link in RH without going into the HTML code? I am fairly comfortable in HTML, but I have coworkers who can barely spell HTML.

    Thanks again
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