TOC titles, topic titles and search

[Guest]

Suppose you want to create the same structure within TOC books.

Here's an example of what I mean:

TOC book: Chapter 1
--> TOC page: General
--> TOC page: Procedures

TOC book: Chapter 2
--> TOC page: General
--> TOC page: Procedures

For the topic titles of the underlying HTM files, I used the exact same description as for the TOC (Chapter 1, General, Procedures etc.), because I wish to create the exact same navigational structure in both WebHelp (TOC) and PDF format (bookmarks).
I found that the PDF converter uses the topic titles for bookmarks, whereas the TOC title is being used for WebHelp. That's why I want to maintain the relation beween TOC title and topic title.

If you perform a search, the search will list the topic titles found.

Example: Suppose a certain word appears in both 'General' topics (Chapter 1 and Chapter 2), the search will list the topic title 'General' twice:
General
General

This outcome of course doesn't make much sense.

Is it possible to add additional info to the search outcome, so that you'll get something like e.g:
General (Chapter 1)
General (Chapter 2)

Any advice/suggestions on how to tackle this problem is very much appreciated?

Herman

[MergeThis]

Your topic names should be more focused (different), such as Naming (Ch1) Overview, Naming Procedures, Group Naming (Ch2) Overview, Group Naming Procedures, etc.

While this might originally result in a more cluttered TOC, you can edit those TOC names to the shorter version as in your example.


Good luck,
Leon

[Guest]

Hi Leon,

That's what I initially did.

I started out with this:

COGS
--> COGS General
--> COGS Procedures

OPEX
--> OPEX General
--> OPEX Procedures

and I then renamed the TOC names:

COSG
--> General
--> Procedures

etc.
That worked fine and a search was showing descriptive topic tiles like 'COGS General' (to my audience that is :-)

Later on, I noticed that this structure created inconsistencies between WebHelp and Printed Output:

TOC in WebHelp:
COSG
--> General
--> Procedures

TOC and BOOKMARKS in PDF:
COSG
--> COGS General
--> GOGS Procedures