Trying to have navigation pane minimized initially

Hi Rick

What Jeff is referring to is a context-sensitive call that would open only the topic of interest. But in thinking about this, you could also accomplish something similar quite easily.

When you generate your WebHelp, one of the SSL options is named "Show Navigation Pane Link in Topics". If you generated with that feature enabled, here is how a page behaves.

Normally, one follows a link to the "WebHelp Start Page" to open the WebHelp. This page launches a cascade of events. Sniffing the browser to see what is being used and making small adjustments accordingly. It builds a frameset and loads each frame with content. As a final action, it loads the default topic into the topic pane.

As your user navigates the help, different topics are loaded into the topic pane. Note that each topic that loads into the topic pane has its own unique address. So it's possible to obtain the URL that would point to only that individual topic. And with that option mentioned earlier in place, as the topic loads into the browser, JavaScript code checks to see if the topic is being loaded into the topic pane of the WebHelp frameset. If not, then a link is added to the topic that allows the user to click in order to see the topic within the full frameset.

So one thought would be to create a special topic that you would point to in order to not have the navigational elements present. Then allow the user to click the link that would then open the topic within the full WebHelp frameset.

Cheers... Rick