Back and Next buttons in individual topics

[Guest]

Hi,

I am using FM11-RH10, as part of TCS 4.0.

I have imported a FrameMaker book into RH. I am using a master page for the footer content. I am publishing to WebHelp output.

We have the browse sequence buttons on the navigation pane above the TOC, but we want to provide additional navigation option in case the user prefers to close the TOC pane. So, we want to add two buttons (Back and Next) at the end of each topic, so that the user can easily navigate to the previous and next topics of a lesson/ book. Preferably, we want this to be a part of master page, which other team members can use without any customization. The buttons should identify the topics from the RH TOC.

Is this possible in RH? If not, what is the closest possible solution? Please advise.

- Anusha

[Captiv8r]

Hi Anusha

Unless one of my colleagues comes up with some really super nifty trick here, there is nothing I'm aware of you can do in Frame to facilitate this. It will all have to happen in RoboHelp.

It's possible, but just a fuzz complicated. The simplest way to achieve it is by generating WebHelp output twice. Once with your desired skin and once with a "traditional - no skin" output. In the traditional-no skin output you have options for placing Browse Sequence buttons in the topics themselves. You also have options about where they appear. (Top left, Top right, Bottom left, Bottom right).

So you generate twice, then take the topic content from the traditional-no skin output and copy them over to the skinned output and replace those that are there. At this point you should then have something pretty close to what you say you want.

Hope this helps... Rick

[Willam_van_Weelden]

While Rick's method works, it is a bit cumbersome. You can also utilize

RoboHelp master pages for this. See

http://www.wvanweelden.eu/blog/2012/07/27/browse-sequences-webhelp-topics

Kind regards,

Willam

[Guest]

Thank you so much Rick and Willam. Will try the ideas suggested.