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I have a project that I have created for a web application. Within the web application, there are 3 types of customers (Commercial Accts, National Accts, and Tier 1 Customers).
I have tagged each help topic that is associated with the help topics I have created.
Then, I created 3 webhelp outputs and 3 TOCs for each customer type.
My goal is to publish the project, where each customer type has their own generated output. Doing it this way, what is listed in the TOC help topics for each customer type is not displaying correctly.
Example: National Accounts TOC
What is generated:
I have tagged the help topics within the TOC to the appropriate conditional tag. Please help. Any advice? I can also be reached at tyeago@tyco.com
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Thanks Jeff. I have updated the post with screen shots. If you can help, that would be greatly appreciated!
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I have a project that I have created for a web application. Within the web application, there are 3 types of customers (Commercial Accts, National Accts, and Tier 1 Customers).
I have tagged each help topic that is associated with the help topics I have created.
Then, I created 3 webhelp outputs and 3 TOCs for each customer type.
My goal is to publish the project, where each customer type has their own generated output. Doing it this way, what is listed in the TOC help topics for each customer type is not displaying correctly.
Example: National Accounts TOC
What is generated:
Please help. Any advice? I can also be reached at tyeago@tyco.com
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So are you creating 3 separate SSL recipes (one for each type of customer) or trying to pack it all in just 1 output? I'd be inclined to create separate SSLs for each flavour (using CBTs) and attach the respective TOC and Index within each one. OR you could investigate the idea of Concept Categories (which I've never used) to package it al up into 1 bundle and have the user select what flavour of help they see based on their type (I'd see grainge.org for more info on that).
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Jeff,
Yes, I have created separate SSL files:
I have selected the TOC/Index from WebHelp settings dialog which open from the Single Source layout?
As far as attaching the TOC/Index to each SSL, what do you mean?
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Ok I can see that you've done that (attaching the type's TOC and IX within each SSL); so the problem is that you're getting the datasourcetest TOC instead of the national_account one? If that's the case, what about changing the (default) setting attached to the datasourcetest TOC?
BTW - I noticed your project path length is long - best practices dictates c:\projects\project_name\ as a structure.
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The problem is that when I open the index.htm for each ssl (commercial acct, national, tier1), when each ssl index.htm help is opened, it does not show everything i need in the TOC.
When I open this:
I get this:
I should be getting this in my published TOC:
I'm thinking its a conditional tag issue, but dont know what the problem is.
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ok - I see - what are the CBTs on the topics that make up the "Getting Started in DataSource", "Searching for Site Levels", "Displaying Site Data" TOC book entries - they seem to be getting suppressed and they sort of read like they would be common to all types of customer.
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They are common to ALL customer types (commercial, natl, tier1). I have tagged those help topics with all 3 conditional tags. I thought if I tagged them with each tag, that each ssl index.htm will display the topic in the published format.
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Nope - if they're common to all, then they don't need a tag attached. What's happening is that your expression is saying "not A and not B and not C" so if a topic is tagged with A/B/C then the expression will never be true - so it gets tossed. Try stripping them off the topics & try again.
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Starting from the top:
Once I created my help topics in my project, I selected the help topics from the Topic List view and applied conditional tags to them (natl, comm, tier1) depending on if the topic is associated with that customer.
Then, I created a new TOC for natl, comm, tier1 by copying the existing TOC (datasourcetest (Default) which is used for all customer types).
Next, I modified each CBTs TOC accordingly. You can see the difference in the Navigational through DataSource book:
In the WebHelp settings for each CBT, I selected the CBT settings, and defined the expression for each output, click Save and Generate.
For example, the following was done for the Commerical CBT:
Note: There are no conditional tags selected inside the CBT TOC:
So, what am I doing wrong?
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Find a topic that is common to all TOCs/SSLs - strip off all the CBTs on that topic (in the Project View, not the TOC); regenerate; what do you get?
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Thanks, Jeff. I am stripping the CBTs on all topics and reapplying. I will keep you posted of my progress!
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Don't do it all topics (just yet) - just one common topic & test with that