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May 22, 2008
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TOC titles, topic titles and search

  • May 22, 2008
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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
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MergeThis
Inspiring
May 23, 2008
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
May 23, 2008
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