HTML Anchors

[MarkV11]

Hi. I'm trying to generate a portion of the help contents as an html quick intro for our website. In doing this, I'd like to create HTML Anchors so that other pages can link in to specific sections. These sections are not individual topics in the help, but are sub-headings within a single topic. Is there any way to define anchor points for these subheadings so they are created as part of the HTML generation within Robohelp?

[Peter Grainge]

Welcome to the forum

Anchors = Bookmarks.

Is that sufficient?

[MarkV11]

Thanks for the pointer. I guess I need a little more assistance. I tried creating a few Bookmarks (using Insert > Bookmark within the Word menu), but that failed to cause anything different in my HTML when I generated the HTML Help files. I can jump around to the bookmarks within my source Word doc via the Bookmark > Go To button. Am I missing a step somewhere?

[Peter Grainge]

Are you creating any links pointing to the bookmark? Sounds like you are expecting to just around bookmarks and that isn't the way it works. You create a link in the same way you would to another topic and when you do that, you will see bookmarks are also available.

In Project Manager, expand the folder with the topic and expand the plus sign by the topic, you will see the bookmarks. Open the topic and type some text at the top of the page, then select that, now click on the bookmark and drag that to the text that was selected, that text will go red, release the mouse button. You know have a link to that bookmark.

[MarkV11]

My goal is to have links from an _external_ html document point into the html generated (using the Webhelp output type) by my Robohelp source. The external html file that will contain the links is not part of my Robohelp source.

That said, if I can get the links working within my html output, I'm sure I'll be able to link in from the outside (not using them at all currently). I don't see the bookmarks listed anywhere except within the Word Insert > Bookmark menu item. In the Project Management view, I expand the Topics folder to show my Word Documents, then expand a Document to show the Topic where I created the Bookamarks, but don't have another expand icon on that Topic.

I'm running RoboHelp for Word X5.0.1 (build 606) if that has any impact.

[Peter Grainge]

Sorry, I view posts by email and it is very easy to miss the category. What I described is a RH HTML feature. Unless a RH for Word guru can step in, I can only suggest you edit the webhelp output and create an anchor in that. You would of coures lose it each time you generate.

[TXL_Lori · Accepted solution]

I don't have time to check this right now, but I seem to remember RH for Word using the term mid-topic IDs. Look on the Insert menu.

-Lori

[frma]

Lori is right - mid-topic IDs are the way to go for linking to sections within a topic from inside the help project. I would expect them to work as link targets from an external document as well but I have never tried that.

As far as I can see, Word's bookmarks have no effect at all on generated help. They may be useful for linking to places in the document within Word, but they seem to be ignored when Robohelp generates the help.

[MarkV11]

Excellent - the mid-topic ID did it for me! Thanks to all for the help.